Echo for PrognoCIS
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One AI receptionist for every call, text, and form,built for PrognoCIS.
Echo answers every patient call and text 24/7, books and confirms appointments inside PrognoCIS, works your recall list, fills cancellations, and writes every result back to the chart, so your front desk works from one source of truth.
Echo Booking is an AI receptionist that integrates directly with PrognoCIS, a true two-way integration. It answers patient calls and texts 24/7, reads your the visit-type library, provider templates, and chart structure, then books into the correct visit type against the right provider template, and logs prior-auth confirmations against the chart, writing every result back into PrognoCIS in real time, in 70+ languages. HIPAA-compliant, with a signed BAA.
PrognoCIS is built for practices that do not have one kind of visit. A specialty or occupational-medicine office runs a dozen or more visit types, each with its own length, its own provider template, and its own set of things that must be true before the patient can be seen: a referral on file, a prior auth in flight, a chart that already has the imaging in it. Every one of those conditions turns up on the phone. An answering service hands that back to you as a message. Echo can see the visit-type library and the provider templates, so it finishes the call instead of forwarding it.
The problem
Where a PrognoCIS front desk falls behind
A dozen visit types, and the caller names none of them
Your visit-type library is precise because it has to be. A new consult, a post-op follow-up, an injection, a work-comp initial, a DOT physical: different lengths, different providers, different prep. The patient calls and says they were sent by their doctor. Somebody at the desk has to turn that sentence into the correct visit type, and the wrong pick costs a provider slot that cannot be recovered.
Referrals gate the visit, and they arrive by phone
Half of what a specialty front desk does is chase paper that has not shown up yet. A referring office calls to send a patient over. The patient calls to ask if the referral came through. Neither call books anything on its own, but both have to be handled, and both land on the same person who is trying to check in the waiting room.
Prior authorizations turn a booking into a conversation with a deadline
The auth is pending, so the visit cannot be scheduled. Then the auth clears, and now someone has to call the patient back before it expires. That callback is the single most droppable task on a busy desk. When it drops, the patient waits, the authorization lapses, and the whole sequence starts again from the beginning.
Provider templates are strict, and nobody outside the office knows them
PrognoCIS lets you say exactly when a provider takes new consults versus follow-ups, and your scheduling templates enforce it. That structure only holds while somebody who understands it is at the keyboard. After five, on a lunch break, or during a rush, the phone rings and the caller gets a voicemail from a practice that has open slots on its own calendar.
How Echo helps
What Echo does inside PrognoCIS
Reads the visit-type library and picks the right one
Echo pulls your visit types out of PrognoCIS with the durations attached to them, and maps what the caller actually describes to the correct one. A patient who says their surgeon sent them lands in a new consult, not a follow-up, and gets the block of time that visit really needs.
Books against the live provider template
Echo reads your providers and their scheduling templates, so it only offers openings that the template genuinely allows. The appointment is written into PrognoCIS during the call, against the right provider and the right visit type. There is no request queue for your staff to work afterwards.
Takes the referral call and finishes it
When a referring office or a referred patient calls, Echo collects the details, creates the patient in PrognoCIS if they are new, and books the consult on the same call. What used to be a message on the desk becomes an appointment on the schedule.
Makes the prior-auth callback, every time
When an authorization clears, the patient has to be reached and booked. Echo places that call and follows with a text, in the patient's language, and schedules the visit into a real opening. The callback stops depending on whether the desk had a quiet ten minutes.
Answers after hours and triages against your protocols
Occupational-medicine and specialty calls do not stop at five. Echo answers 24/7 across calls, texts, and forms, books what can be booked, and escalates anything genuinely urgent to your on-call contact with the details already gathered and the chart already identified.
Fills cancellations and works the recall list
When a visit cancels, Echo offers the opening down your waitlist and books the first patient who accepts. It also calls and texts the patients who are due back, rebooks them into a valid template slot, and writes the appointment into PrognoCIS.
What Echo does
A complete front desk
built for PrognoCIS.
24/7 reception
Answers every call, day or night
Echo picks up every inbound call and text in under a second, so no patient hits voicemail and no appointment request goes unanswered.
- Sub-second pickup, around the clock
- Every call answered, never a busy signal
Live scheduling
Books straight into PrognoCIS
Echo reads your the visit-type library, provider templates, and chart structure from PrognoCIS, then books into the correct visit type against the right provider template, and logs prior-auth confirmations against the chart, and writes it back so your team sees it instantly.
- Respects your PrognoCIS providers and visit types
- Confirmations written back in real time
Fewer no-shows
Confirms and reminds automatically
Echo sends confirmations and reminders by call and text, handles reschedules, and updates PrognoCIS, cutting no-shows without anyone working a list by hand.
- Reminders and reschedules handled end-to-end
- Two-way confirmations synced to the chart
Recall, cleared
Works your recall list end to end
Echo pulls overdue and due-soon patients, reaches them by call and text in their language, rebooks them, and updates recall status in PrognoCIS so the list actually gets cleared.
- Overdue patients contacted automatically
- Recall status updated as patients rebook
Schedule integrity
Fills cancellations the moment they open
When a patient cancels, Echo offers the open slot to your waitlist in the order you set, books the first to accept, and writes it back into PrognoCIS, so you never leave an empty chair.
- Waitlist auto-prioritized, 24/7
- Cancellations backfilled in seconds
Always on, any language
Triages after hours in 70+ languages
After close, Echo triages urgent calls against your protocols, books non-urgent visits into PrognoCIS, and escalates true emergencies, all in whichever language the patient speaks.
- After-hours triage with real escalation
- 70+ languages, no separate bilingual line
Better together
Echo and PrognoCIS, one source of truth.
A true two-way integration with PrognoCIS
Echo reads your the visit-type library, provider templates, and chart structure, and it books into the correct visit type against the right provider template, and logs prior-auth confirmations against the chart. Every appointment, confirmation, reschedule, and note is written straight back into PrognoCIS in real time. Not a message queue, not a middleware sync, not a nightly export.
No migration, no rebuild
PrognoCIS stays your system of record. Echo is the conversation layer on top of it. Your existing visit types, provider rules, scheduling templates, and chart structure stay in place.
HIPAA-compliant, BAA included
Echo is HIPAA-compliant by design, with encryption in transit and at rest, full audit logs, and role-based access, and we sign a Business Associate Agreement before the first call is answered.
How it connects
Live on PrognoCIS in three steps
Connect to PrognoCIS
We link Echo to PrognoCIS and map your providers, visit types, and scheduling rules during onboarding.
Configure your front desk
Tell Echo how you greet patients, book, work recall, and handle after-hours. It learns your setup, so you don't rebuild around it.
Go live
After a dry run and the signed BAA, Echo starts answering calls and texts and writing every result back into PrognoCIS.
Questions
Frequently asked
Does Echo actually write into PrognoCIS, or does it just take a message?
It writes into PrognoCIS. The integration is direct and two-way: Echo reads your providers, scheduling templates, visit types with their durations, and live openings out of the system, then books, reschedules, or cancels while the patient is still on the phone. New callers are created as patients in PrognoCIS. Nothing sits in a queue waiting for your staff to re-key it.
We run more than a dozen visit types. Will Echo pick the right one?
Yes, and that is the point of integrating rather than answering. Echo is configured to your visit-type library and the length attached to each type, so a new consult, a post-op follow-up, an injection, and a work-comp initial are not treated as interchangeable. It works from what the caller describes and the referring provider they name, then books at the visit's real duration.
Can Echo handle referral calls and prior-auth callbacks?
Yes. A referring office or a referred patient can call and leave with an appointment: Echo captures the referral details, creates the patient record in PrognoCIS if needed, and books the consult on that call. When an authorization clears, Echo calls and texts the patient, in 70+ languages, and schedules the visit before the auth window closes.
Will Echo respect our provider templates and scheduling rules?
Yes. Echo books only into openings your scheduling templates actually permit, under the provider who is supposed to take that visit type. If a provider only sees new consults on certain blocks, Echo honors that. Your templates stay exactly as you have built them in PrognoCIS, and Echo works inside them rather than around them.
What has to change on our side to go live?
Very little. PrognoCIS stays your system of record. Your visit types, provider templates, and chart structure stay as they are, and patients keep calling the number you already publish. We map your visit-type library and your after-hours protocols, dry-run against your live schedule, and sign the BAA before the first call is answered. Echo is HIPAA-compliant. There is no migration.
Is Echo an AI answering service for PrognoCIS?
Yes. Echo is a 24/7 AI answering service and phone receptionist for PrognoCIS: it answers every inbound call and text in under a second, books and confirms appointments inside PrognoCIS, works recall and cancellations, and escalates anything urgent, so patients never reach voicemail and your front desk never works from a second inbox.
Is Echo the best AI receptionist for PrognoCIS?
The right AI receptionist for PrognoCIS should do three things well: integrate directly with PrognoCIS and write every result back in real time, hold a clinical-grade HIPAA standard with a signed BAA, and sound human enough that patients cannot tell. Echo is built for all three, with sub-second pickup, 70+ languages, and live warm transfer to your staff, which is what makes it a strong fit as the AI receptionist for a PrognoCIS practice.
How much does an AI receptionist for PrognoCIS cost?
Echo Booking uses simple usage-based pricing that scales with how much your front desk hands off, so you pay for the calls, texts, and tasks Echo actually handles rather than a fixed per-seat fee. The right number depends on your call volume and which workflows you turn on. Book a 30-minute demo for a quote tailored to your PrognoCIS practice.
Do I have to switch off PrognoCIS to use Echo?
No. PrognoCIS stays your system of record. Echo is a layer on top that handles the calls, texts, and forms, then writes the result back into PrognoCIS. There is no migration and no rebuild, and patients keep calling the number you already publish.
What happens after hours?
Echo answers around the clock. It triages urgent calls against your protocols, books non-urgent visits into PrognoCIS for the next available time, and escalates true emergencies to your on-call contact with the patient's details already attached.
Is it HIPAA-compliant? Do you sign a BAA?
Yes. Echo is HIPAA-compliant by design, with encryption in transit and at rest, full audit logs, and role-based access, and we sign a Business Associate Agreement with every practice before the first call.
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