Healthcare · Outbound

Appointment & Care-Gap Reminder Calls

Calls patients ahead of appointments and open care gaps, confirms or reschedules on the spot, and records what happened so your team knows who still needs a follow-up.

The challenge

Reminders work. Making them by hand doesn't scale.

Where it breaks down:

Staff make reminder calls in between everything else.


What it costs:

Calls get skipped on busy days, and no-shows follow.

Care-gap outreach waits behind daily volume.


What it costs:

Patients overdue for care are reached late, or not at all.

Nobody can see who was reached and who wasn't.


What it costs:

Follow-up becomes guesswork.

The approach

We treated a reminder as a short call with one job, and designed around what it can safely say.

  1. A reminder call is short and has one purpose: confirm, move, or cancel.
  2. Outbound calls to patients need care about who is on the line and what's said.
  3. The lasting value is in the record: who answered, and what they said.

The agent had to:

  1. Say nothing sensitive until the right person is on the line.
  2. Confirm, reschedule, or cancel on the spot.
  3. Record every outcome so staff know who to follow up with.
The solution

A RevAIvo Voice outbound agent working from your contact list and your calendar.

1

Your list, one account

Load your contacts and run the campaign from the same account that handles your inbound calls.

2

Right person first

Confirms it's the patient before mentioning the appointment, and keeps any voicemail to the minimum you set.

3

Confirm or move

Confirms the visit, or reschedules against your calendar (Google Calendar or TidyCal) during the call.

4

Outcome on record

Every call lands in Pulse with its outcome and sentiment, so staff follow up with the patients who didn't pick up or asked for a person.

It brings in your team when…

Scoped narrow on purpose. Where you've set a number it can connect the caller; otherwise it logs a callback request for your team.

  • The patient reports symptoms or asks a clinical question.
  • The patient asks to speak to a person.
  • The patient asks to stop receiving calls. The request is recorded for your team.
  • Someone other than the patient answers and your rules don't cover it.

What the call sounds like

Illustrative exampleNot a recorded call
Agent

Hello, this is RevAIvo calling on behalf of the clinic for Alex Morgan. Is this Alex?

Patient

Speaking.

Agent

Thanks, Alex. I'm calling to confirm your appointment tomorrow at 9:15. Will you be able to make it?

Patient

I can't do 9:15. Is there anything later?

Agent

I can offer 11:00 tomorrow, or 9:15 on Thursday.

Patient

11:00 works.

Agent

You're booked for 11:00 tomorrow, and the 9:15 slot is released. See you then.

Patient

Thank you.

Agent

You're welcome. I'll text you a confirmation of the new time when we hang up.

Afterward: The outcome is in Pulse. Patients who didn't pick up, or asked for a person, are the ones your team follows up with. The confirmation goes out when the call ends.

Sent after the call

TextWhen the call ends with a confirmed or moved appointment

Your appointment is now confirmed for tomorrow at 11:00. If you need to change it, call (555) 010-0140.

Message wording is illustrative and deliberately minimal: no health details. It goes out when the call ends, based on how the call went.

What changes for your team

An illustrative scenario:

320reminder calls a month your team wouldn't have to make
27 hoursof staff time back each month
Every calllands in RevAIvo Pulse with its outcome, ready to review

Say your team handles 800 reminder calls a month, and the agent takes 40% of them end to end, at an assumed 5 minutes a call. These figures are assumptions for illustration, not customer results.

In a pilot we measure this with you, on your own calls in RevAIvo Pulse: calls connected, when patients pick up, and outcomes by disposition.

The result

Reminders that go out when they should, and a clear list of who still needs a call.

Fewer missed visits to chase, and a record of every call.

Similar use cases

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These use cases are illustrative and for informational purposes only. The organizations, people, phone numbers, links, and messages shown are fictional examples, and any resemblance to real businesses or individuals is coincidental. Scenario figures are assumptions, not customer results. Actual results depend on your call volumes, scripts, and setup.