Knows who is calling before they say hello
Patients get an answer instead of a menu, and they do not have to recite a date of birth to get it. The ones who used to hang up and ring back twice are handled the first time.
Most inbound calls never need clinical judgement. Those get answered without your team, so your pharmacists spend their time on the ones that do.
Patients get an answer instead of a menu, and they do not have to recite a date of birth to get it. The ones who used to hang up and ring back twice are handled the first time.
Anything clinical or sensitive comes to a pharmacist, and it arrives with the background already gathered so nobody starts from the beginning. A frustrated patient gets a person straight away rather than after five minutes of trying.
Everyone due for a refill this week, every script sitting unclaimed, everyone eligible for a vaccine. A bench gets through a handful of these on a good day and none on a bad one. Every patient gets a real call about their own medication, not a recorded message to a list.
Most follow-ups die at the first no-answer because nobody circles back. Here the second call happens, and the call to the prescriber when the script has expired, and the call back to the patient once it clears. You set how persistent it should be once.
The note is written and the tasks are created as the call happens, each one assigned to whoever handles it. An address a patient mentions in passing follows their prescription to the packing station, and nobody has to go back through the call to find it.