Switchboard for medical clinics

Symptom triage, appointment booking, refill intake, and post-visit follow-up — across phone, SMS, portal, and web. Your MAs and front desk stop drowning in the 30 same questions, so they can handle the patient who actually needs them.

HIPAA-Ready Medical Clinic AI Front Desk & Emergency Routing
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HIPAA-Ready Medical Clinic AI Front Desk & Emergency Routing

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Appointment density meets phone tag

Monday at 8:02am, 14 voicemails are already stacked. Three are refill requests, five are “can I get in today, my throat is killing me,” two are insurance questions, one is a post-op follow-up, and three are no-shows from Friday you haven’t rebooked.

Your MA is triaging this list by ear while also rooming patients, prepping charts, and fielding the walk-in at the counter. By 10am, you’re behind. By noon, you’re double-booking. By 4pm, someone with a real problem gave up and went to urgent care.

Patient messaging through the portal isn’t much better — half your patients don’t check it, and the other half send a three-paragraph symptom description that nobody has time to read carefully until Tuesday.

Switchboard triages inbound across every channel the patient actually uses. Low-acuity questions get answered instantly from your knowledge base. Refill requests get routed to the right provider with an auto-filled intake. High-acuity symptoms get escalated to a human in under 30 seconds. Your team gets their mornings back.

What Switchboard does for medical clinics

Symptom triage pre-screen

Patient describes their symptoms on SMS or web. AI follows a clinician-designed triage protocol, flags red-flag symptoms for immediate escalation, and routes everything else to the right visit type.

Appointment booking into your EHR

Once triaged, the AI offers same-day, next-day, or telehealth slots based on acuity and your scheduling rules — and books directly into your EHR calendar. No double-entry.

Rx refill intake

Patient requests a refill. AI collects medication + dose + pharmacy + last refill date, checks it against your policy (e.g., controlled substances always go to provider), and routes to the right reviewer with a clean one-line summary.

Post-visit follow-up + patient-reported outcomes

24-48 hours after a visit, a short wellness check goes out. Worsening symptoms auto-escalate. Stable patients get logged as resolved. No more chart-reviewing old visits wondering how Mrs. Patel is doing.

Specialty-specific workflows

Dermatology intake with photo upload. Cardiology pre-visit questionnaires. OB/GYN pregnancy-check timelines. Switchboard is a shell — you bring the protocols, we automate them across every channel.

Pre-visit paperwork + insurance capture

New patient packet sent via SMS 48 hours ahead. Driver’s license + insurance card photos OCR’d and verified. Patients arrive already checked in; front desk greets them by name.

Enterprise Platform Snapshots

Primary care + specialty clinics Operations Snapshots

Inspect production-grade primary care + specialty clinics workflows, automated sync pipelines, and audit logs running live on Switchboard.

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Administrative Patient Intake & Emergency Red-Flag Routing
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Administrative Patient Intake & Emergency Red-Flag Routing

Sub-second intake analysis evaluating acute symptoms against clinician triage trees.

Administrative Patient Intake: High-priority intake flagged for on-call triage nurse review (Non-clinical administrative workflow automation only; not a medical device).

Administrative Red-Flag Routing

Intake workflows flag urgent keywords for immediate nurse station escalation.

Clinician-Designed Protocols

Clinician-approved administrative decision trees with automated nurse station escalation.

Zero Double-Entry

Transcripts, vital stats, and symptom profiles auto-formatted for EHR injection.

What it sounds like in production

Patient (SMS / Web Chat)
Hi, I woke up with a sharp pain in my lower right side and feeling feverish. Can I see Dr. Chen today?
Clinic AI Front Desk
I’m glad you reached out. Because lower right abdominal pain with a fever can be serious (such as appendicitis), let me check two quick safety questions right away: Is the pain severe enough that you cannot stand up straight, or are you currently experiencing any nausea or vomiting?
Patient (SMS / Web Chat)
I can stand, but it really hurts when I walk. A little nauseous but haven't thrown up.
Clinic AI Front Desk
Thank you for letting me know. Because of your symptoms, I have immediately flagged this for our on-call triage nurse, Sarah RN, who will review and call you within 3 minutes. In the meantime, if the pain becomes sudden and unbearable, please proceed directly to the nearest emergency department.
Patient (SMS / Web Chat)
Okay, I'll keep my phone nearby. Thank you.
Clinic AI Front Desk
Nurse Sarah has accepted the escalation and is opening your chart now. We'll be in touch momentarily.

Demonstrative Simulation: All names, entities, and scenarios shown are synthetic reference models engineered for workflow demonstration.

From $299/mo. All channels. Unlimited users. Pilot Welcome Offer: Enterprise tier ($999/mo value) for $299/mo.

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HIPAA Architecture & BAA Roadmap

Switchboard is architected with gateway de-identification protocols, clinical escalation workflows, and cryptographically isolated PostgreSQL schema encryption. Formal Business Associate Agreements (BAAs) and dedicated VPC peering are in active development on our enterprise compliance roadmap (Coming Soon for Dedicated Cloud and BYOC deployment tiers). Explore Dedicated & BYOC plans.

Clinical & Emergency Safety Notice: Switchboard provides administrative workflow, patient intake, and scheduling automation only. It does not provide clinical diagnosis, medical triage advice, or emergency dispatch services. If a patient is experiencing a medical emergency, they must dial 911 or visit the nearest hospital emergency department immediately.

Questions we hear a lot

Under our HIPAA-ready BYOC tier, Switchboard is deployed on your own cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP, or a dedicated private VPC). All data, conversation logs, and database schemas remain under your direct control, with encrypted backups and our BYOC BAA execution roadmap.

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