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When should a patient call leave automation?
We’re looking at voice AI for a centralized patient access team and this is one scenario we keep getting stuck on.
A patient may start with something completely routine like moving an appointment, then halfway through mention that symptoms have gotten worse or that they’re having a reaction to a medication.
At that point the call is no longer really about scheduling.
We’re not interested in automating clinical triage. The question is how quickly the system should recognize that the conversation changed and hand it to the right person without making the patient restart from the beginning.
How are you defining that boundary?
u/Aggressive_Chain8939 — 13 days ago