-72% missed appointments: an agent on patient follow-up
A clinic was losing track of its care plans — not from negligence, but from arithmetic. Reminders do not scale by hand.
A clinic’s care team knew exactly what good follow-up looked like: a reminder before each appointment, a check-in after each treatment step, a call when someone drops off the plan. They also had several hundred active patients. The arithmetic never worked.
What we installed
A follow-up agent inside a simple patient-tracking platform. It sends the reminders, reschedules the misses, and every morning hands the care team a short, prioritised list: who needs a human call today, and why. Medical judgment stays entirely with the team — the agent only makes sure nothing falls through.
What it changed
- →Missed appointments: -72%
- →Follow-up compliance: 95%
- →Admin time: -60%
- →Patient satisfaction: +34%
A note on sensitive sectors
Healthcare data raises the bar, as it should: hosting on the clinic’s infrastructure, strict access rules, every agent action logged and reviewable. That is not overhead — it is the reason a clinic can say yes. In sensitive sectors, the compliance design is the product.
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