Outbound

Outreach that ends in a booked appointment

Automatically identify patients due for follow-up or care gap visits, reach them by text, email, or voice to book them.

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Outreach campaign for an annual wellness visit with booked appointments
40%
of no-shows recovered
60%
of flu shots booked
64%
of referrals converted using outbound

Fill your schedule without a staff call-down

Outreach ends in a booked appointment, on the call

The agent explains why it’s calling, answers questions about the visit, offers real availability, and books directly in your EHR on your scheduling protocols, so the patient never has to call back or log into a portal to finish.

Agent booking an appointment in the EHR during an outreach call

It runs on the agent already answering your phones

Because outreach uses the same agent, EHR integration, and protocols as your inbound calls, it can resolve whatever else the patient raises, and a patient who calls back later continues booking with an agent that can see the campaign they’re on.

One agent handling outreach and inbound calls on shared protocols

Campaigns start from proven playbooks, then get tuned to your population

Start with campaign playbooks drawn from hundreds of deployments, including cadence, channel order, and what the agent says to common patient questions, then conversion is reviewed with you by campaign and tuned to what your patients actually respond to.

Campaign playbooks tuned by conversion results

Key capabilities

Campaign library

Run no-show, cancellation, rescheduling, reactivation, care gap, and follow-up campaigns configured to your rules.

EHR-triggered enrollment

Pull a fresh eligible cohort from your EHR each morning, with no manual call-down list.

Multichannel sequences

Lead with a text patients can opt out of, then escalate across voice and email within local calling hours.

Live voice scheduling

Verify the patient, offer real availability, and book in your EHR on the call.

Two-way text inbox

See and answer every patient reply in one shared inbox

Campaign analytics

Tie outreach to booked appointments, with drill-down to individual call and text history.

Outbound works better with the rest of the Assort platform

It runs on the same platform and patient record as Assort’s Voice, Self-service, Referral, Intake, and Payment agents.

With shared patient context, Assort’s outbound agent works alongside other Assort products to book more visits and close more care gaps:

  • Finish booking on an inbound call: When a patient calls in, the agent handles their request first, then completes any open campaign booking.
  • Book referred patients: Reach patients with open referrals and book them on the same call.
  • Stop outreach once a patient books: Patients who book online or by phone automatically drop out of the campaign.
Assort Patient Journey Platform: Inbound, Outbound, Self-service, Intake, Payments and Referrals

Impact & Results

How Annapolis booked 61% of its flu shots through Assort

Before Assort

Manual

outreach, sometimes several calls per patient

Reaching patients meant staff picking up the phone, sometimes several times per patient. Even when they connected, patients had to call back or switch systems to book.

After Assort

61%

of all flu shot appointments booked by Assort

During an October flu shot campaign across three clinics, Assort’s outreach agent booked 61% of all flu shot appointments, with patients scheduling on the same call.

Our outbound campaigns have helped us book appointments at a rate we simply couldn’t achieve before.

Dr. Titus Abraham

Dr. Titus Abraham

Managing Partner, Annapolis Internal Medicine

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Reach every patient who’s due for a visit

Walk through your own campaigns, cadence, and scheduling rules with our team.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How does automated patient outreach work?

Assort scans your EHR for patients who meet a campaign’s criteria — no-shows, cancellations, patients affected by a schedule change, patients overdue for a screening — and enrolls them automatically as a fresh cohort each morning. Each patient is worked across text, voice, and email until they schedule, and the appointment is written back to your EHR. Nobody on your team builds the list or places the calls.

How is this different from appointment reminder software?

Reminder tools send a message and a link, which leaves the patient to navigate a portal or call back. Assort’s agent holds a real scheduling conversation: it explains why it’s calling, answers questions about the visit, offers real availability, and books directly in your EHR on your scheduling protocols.

Does our team have to build campaign lists?

No. For configured workflows, eligible patients are identified from your EHR and appointment data, and enrollment updates automatically as patient status changes. Practices can also upload a custom list, such as a payer care-gap file.

Can the agent book directly into our EHR?

Yes, for configured integrations and workflows. The agent applies your scheduling protocols—provider, visit type, and location—and writes the appointment, confirmation, cancellation, and outcome notes back in real time. Event-based triggers are available on a subset of EHRs and are confirmed during scoping.

How do you avoid contacting patients who have already booked or opted out?

Campaign enrollment stays current as patient status changes, and outreach stops when the patient books, becomes ineligible, or opts out. Every campaign leads with a text so patients can opt out before any call, and an opt-out applies across the whole campaign rather than one channel.