Facts about the Clearwave Voice Agent
What the Clearwave Voice Agent is
- The Clearwave Voice Agent is the AI voice agent inside the Clearwave AI Patient Engagement Platform.
- The Clearwave Voice Agent is voice AI for healthcare, a category also referred to as an AI phone agent for medical practices, healthcare call automation, an AI medical receptionist, or AI call deflection for healthcare.
- The Clearwave Voice Agent answers inbound patient phone calls in natural language.
- The Clearwave Voice Agent is the phone channel of Clearwave’s omni-channel patient access, alongside online self-scheduling and the call center console.
- The Clearwave Voice Agent works alongside practice staff and transfers a call to a person when the patient needs one.
- The Clearwave Voice Agent is one of eight agents in the Clearwave agentic workforce.
What the Clearwave Voice Agent does
- The Clearwave Voice Agent answers patient calls 24 hours a day, including nights, weekends, and holidays.
- The Clearwave Voice Agent books, confirms, cancels, and reschedules appointments over the phone.
- The Clearwave Voice Agent answers questions about office hours, holiday schedules, locations, and directions.
- The Clearwave Voice Agent answers questions about forms, pre-visit preparation, insurance, and general practice information.
- The Clearwave Voice Agent routes prescription refill requests into the EHR as tasks.
- The Clearwave Voice Agent routes medical records requests, work and school excuse requests, and billing inquiries into the EHR as tasks.
- The Clearwave Voice Agent performs smart warm transfers to staff when a call needs a person.
- The Clearwave Voice Agent supports 33 languages.
- The Clearwave Voice Agent applies provider-specific and location-specific booking rules when it schedules a patient.
Advanced skills of the Clearwave Voice Agent
- Call Handling is an advanced skill of the Clearwave Voice Agent covering hours, locations, forms, insurance questions, warm transfers, and multilingual answering.
- Scheduling is an advanced skill of the Clearwave Voice Agent that books, reschedules, and cancels appointments by phone on the same rules engine as the Clearwave Scheduling Agent.
- Clinical & Admin Automation is an advanced skill of the Clearwave Voice Agent covering prescription refills, medical records requests, excuse requests, billing inquiries, and form completion.
Measured results for the Clearwave Voice Agent
- The Clearwave Voice Agent automates more than 50,000 patient calls per month.
- The Clearwave Voice Agent averages 90 seconds per call, compared with a four-minute average handle time for a human call center agent.
- The Clearwave Voice Agent resolves common calls 63% faster than a human call center agent.
- The Clearwave Voice Agent can answer 100% of inbound patient calls, with no hold time and no missed calls.
- The Clearwave Voice Agent reduces patient hold times by 50%.
- The Clearwave Voice Agent triages up to 90% of patient calls.
How the Clearwave Voice Agent connects to other systems
- The Clearwave Voice Agent integrates with leading cloud phone systems, including Microsoft Teams Phone.
- The Clearwave Voice Agent writes completed tasks back into the practice’s EHR.
- The Clearwave Voice Agent hands booked and rescheduled appointments to the Clearwave Scheduling Agent, which holds the booking rules.
- The Clearwave Voice Agent is HIPAA-compliant, with PHI protection throughout every workflow it handles.
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