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Ellery Health

Voice AI

A phone that books the visit.

The voice agent answers your practice's line, finds an open time, and books, moves or cancels the visit in the same calendar your front desk uses.

Built by a phone company

Most scheduling software treats the phone as somebody else's problem. We came the other way: business phone systems, call queues and voice agents are what we set up and run every day.

So in Ellery the phone agent is not a visitor. It has its own identity, its own permissions, and its own line in the history of every visit it touches. And when something goes wrong, one company answers for the call and for the booking.

What it does on a call

  • It asks who is calling. It takes a name and a date of birth and matches them to one patient record. If two records match, it does not guess.
  • It finds an open time. By visit type, with one provider or with anyone, inside the office hours you set.
  • It books, moves and cancels. Through the same booking checks as your front desk, with no overrides: it cannot double-book a provider or a patient. It moves or cancels a visit it booked. A visit your front desk booked stays with your front desk.
  • It takes on a new patient. Name, date of birth and phone number, then the first visit.
  • It says no when the answer is no. The office is closed then, the time has gone, the provider is out.
Office hours in Ellery Health's settings, Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. The note above reads: the phone agent offers callers times inside these hours only, so a patient is never told to come when the front desk has gone home.
The office hours you set are the agent's limits. From the app's sample practice.

What your front desk sees

Every visit keeps its own history. A change made by phone reads as plainly as one made at the desk: the phone agent booked this visit, the phone agent moved it, and when.

The owner's overview counts what the agent did over the last 7, 30 or 90 days: visits booked, moved and cancelled.

Nothing the agent does is final. The front desk can move or cancel any visit it booked.

A visit's panel in the Ellery Health calendar. Under History it reads: The phone agent moved this visit from October 15 at 3:45 PM to October 16 at 4:00 PM. The phone agent booked this visit for October 15 at 3:45 PM.
How the app records a visit booked, then moved, through the phone agent. From the app's sample practice. The patients are fictional.
The owner's overview in Ellery Health for the last 30 days. Its last section reads: The phone agent booked 4 visits, moved 1, cancelled 1.
The owner's overview. Its last section counts what the phone agent did. From the app's sample practice.

What it cannot do

The limits are built into what the agent is allowed to touch, not left to its manners.

  • It does not see coverage, payments or anything clinical. Its reach ends at the calendar and a patient's name, date of birth and phone number.
  • It works for one practice. Each practice's agent has its own credential, so it cannot reach another practice's calendar.
  • Every booking, move and cancellation is recorded. So is a request made with a withdrawn credential or without the right permission, and any attempt to change a visit that is not the caller's.

Common questions

Does it replace our front desk?

No. It takes the calls your front desk cannot get to: the second line, the lunch hour, the evening. The front desk sees every visit it booked, moved or cancelled, and can change any of them.

How does it know our schedule?

It reads the same calendar your front desk books in: your providers' hours, your visit types and their lengths, your office hours and your closures. There is no second schedule to keep in step.

Can it book a patient we have never seen?

Yes. It takes the caller's name, date of birth and phone number, creates the patient record and books the first visit. The visit's history shows that the phone agent booked it. It does not take insurance details over the phone: your front desk adds those from the card.

How do we know what it did?

Open any visit and read its history, or open the overview for the count. Both name the phone agent in plain words.

Talk to us

Book a 20-minute look. Tell us how many providers you have and what your front desk spends its day on. We will show you the app with a sample practice and answer what you ask.

Email
support@elleryhealth.net
Phone
(732) 444-7364
Hours
Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Eastern