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Clients
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EHR integrations
Client types
Awards
Differentiators
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Company details

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Product Description:

Nuance Patient Engagement Solutions combine decades of healthcare expertise with award‑winning omnichannel engagement technology that powers over 31 billion customer interactions annually. A single solution based on market‑leading Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and proven AI brings world‑class consumer engagement to healthcare, modernizing interactions across the patient journey.

About Nuance Communications:
Nuance provides a more natural and insightful approach to clinical documentation, freeing clinicians to spend more time caring for their patients. Nuance healthcare solutions capture and communicate more than 300 million patient stories each year helping more than 500,000 clinicians in 10,000 healthcare organizations globally. Nuance’s award-winning clinical speech recognition, medical transcription, CDI, coding, quality and diagnostic imaging solutions provide a more complete and accurate view of patient care, which drives meaningful clinical and financial outcomes.
Product Description:

The experience for patients on the phone is far from optimal. Patients experience: 

  1. Long hold times
  2. 3-4 transfers to get to the correct destination
  3. Broken extensions
  4. Full or malfunctioning voice mailboxes
  5. Lack of resolution of their needs.

On average, one third of incoming phone callers abandon the call before they get help and 60% of incoming phone calls to your hospital are unresolved. This requires multiple phone calls from patients to get their needs met and to transact business, which exacerbates your phone call volume problems.

The Patient Assistant for Hospitals allows you to solve your patient experience problems on the phone easily and at a fraction of the cost of a human operator. The Patient Assistant allows callers to use natural language to navigate your telephony system and intelligently routes them to the correct destination more often than a human. With the Patient Assistant: 

  1. Call abandonment is markedly reduced
  2. Hold times shrink considerably
  3. Callers are transferred on average one time during a call rather than 3-4 times
  4. First call resolution rises considerably
  5. Daily call volume handled by humans operators is reduced 50%
  6. Patients have a much more consistent brand experience
  7. And with EHR integration, automated transactions like scheduling functions, prescription refill, bill pay, and medical records requests become possible.

About Syllable Corp:

Syllable is a leading provider of healthcare contact center and medical practice automation solutions using conversational AI

Syllable's product, the Patient Assistant, is used by both hospitals and practices to intelligently route calls more efficiently and provide for automated transactions like appointment scheduling and prescription refill on the phone.


The Patient Assistant also provides rich insights into the end to end call journey for your patients. Current call center metrics are too focused on the micro engagement at the call center and fail to provide the full extent of operational difficulties patients experience on the phone. 

Syllable is used by health systems such as NewYork-Presbyterian, Houston Methodist, Parkview Health, Memorial Care and Honor Health to improve patient experience, enhance access and reduce the cost of delivering healthcare on the phone.

With 88% of patients engaging with hospitals and providers over the phone, why invest millions on your digital front door. Engage patients where they are, on the phone, with Syllable. We automate 50% of incoming phone volume on day one at the fraction of the cost of a human call center agent.


Syllable provides swift time to value with real ROI.

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Clients

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Use Cases

Description:

Elevate your approach to patient engagement

Achieve operational efficiencies, delight patients, and ease care management throughout the patient journey with an expanding portfolio of existing applications—or custom‑build your own. Work towards a comprehensive engagement strategy by continually adding automation where it makes sense. Our single solution can easily expand to additional patient journey use cases and channels.

NLU‑powered Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA)

Deliver modern convenience when Nuance IVA accepts patient input in natural language, understands intent, and successfully resolves requests. Patients interact within natural conversations on phone lines, online chat, or messaging applications. System integration delivers access to information that drives effective self‑service capabilities, improving the patient experience.

Voice IVA routing

Surpass the capabilities of basic Interactive Voice Response (IVR), with Nuance IVA Routing on voice channels. Callers verbalize their needs—faster and easier than choosing from a laundry list of recited options—and are routed to mapped destinations like phone lines, self‑service options, or live agents. Patients get what they need while organizations decrease the number of calls handled by live agents.

Appointment Management

Automate the delivery of voice, email, and SMS appointment reminders based on real‑time data and extend the convenience of interactive confirming, cancelling, and rescheduling on the channel of contact. Alleviate care team manual work and speed service when patients modify or schedule appointments within an automated, conversational dialogue on voice and digital channels.

Patient Support

Empower patients to self‑serve telehealth visit preparation and patient portal account access or navigation issues. NLU‑powered conversational AI offers 24x7x365 bilingual assistance, with the option to transfer to a live agent.

Intelligent outreach

Strengthen the patient‑physician relationship and encourage good health with personalized outreach. From care gap reminders to broadcast messages to preventative screening notifications, thoughtful communication promotes wellness, protects revenue, and boosts satisfaction.

Patient FAQs

Extend the convenience of 24x7x365 access to answers to questions about patient care, appointments, billing, insurance, amenities, and services. Patients contact their provider on their channel of choice, interact conversationally, and receive requested information.

Rx management

Allow patients to self‑serve prescription refill requests that trigger automatic in‑workflow approval requests for physicians and refill status notifications for patients.

Biometric authentication

Protect patient data with biometric authentication through Nuance Gatekeeper and replace outdated, vulnerable authentication methods.

Do it yourself, but not alone

Harness the power of best‑in‑class Conversational AI services and APIs with Nuance Mix tooling platform and design a natural, conversational patient engagement experience. Use IVR and NLU, Text to Speech (TTS), and Speech to Text (STT) to power interactive dialogs. Once an application exists, quick adjustments allow deployment in multiple languages across multiple channels. Patients engage in natural conversations—no matter how they get in touch.

Pediatric use cases:

None provided

Users:
  • University of Michigan Health - West
Description:

Patient Assistant greets calls within seconds and guides patients through an intuitive, conversational workflow to the next step in their healthcare journey.

Syllable leverages artificial intelligence, natural language understanding (NLU), and digital tools to streamline and automate everyday tasks, including: 

  • Connecting with a healthcare provider
  • Scheduling an appointment or referral
  • Refilling a prescription
  • Navigating an online health portal

Perfecting access to care while lowering costs.

  • Eliminate wait and hold times, and reduce abandoned calls
  • Enable overflow calls during high volume periods, nights and weekends
  • Reduce volume for redundant call center functions
  • Activate patient self-service for many high volume call types
  • Respond to outbound text message campaigns
  • Improve the routing performance of your call center with our artificially intelligent transfer capability
Pediatric use cases:

Same as adult application

Users:

External as well as internal callers

EHR Integrations

Integrations:

Acute care EMR, Ambulatory EMR, Ancillary EMR

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

Required

EMRs Supported:

Epic, Cerner, Meditech, Allscripts, NextGen, athena, GE, eClinicalWorks

Hardware Compatibility:

Desktop

Integrations:

Acute care EMR, Ambulatory EMR, ADT

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

Recommended, but not required

EMRs Supported:

Epic, Meditech, Allscripts

Hardware Compatibility:

Desktop, Mobile / Tablet (web optimized), Mobile / Tablet (native app)

Client Types

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Differentiators

Differentiators vs EHR Functionality:

None provided

Differentiators vs Competitors:

None provided

Differentiators vs EHR Functionality:

We are the front door to a health system. As a contact center automation provider we integrate with the EHR we do not compete with it.

Differentiators vs Competitors:
  1. We meet patients where they are, on the phone.
  2. 100% healthcare focused
  3. We answer over 1M calls a month for our current partners
  4. Real ROI for our partners
  5. Successful integrations with EPIC, Alscripts, Meditech
  6. Dedicated senior executive who is responsible for your account from initial contact through implementation and beyond.

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Founded in 1992

Founded in 2016

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