Pets Recover Better When Every Owner Gets a Check-In After Surgery
The Post-Visit Follow-Up Agent makes the follow-up call your technicians never have time for. The AgentWorks Post-Visit Follow-Up Agent checks in with every client after a visit or surgery, asks the standard recovery questions your veterinarians wrote, sends any concerning answer to the doctor as an immediate task and logs routine recoveries without taking technician time. The people it frees are your technicians, who can stay with the patients in the hospital.
What it takes off your plate
Here is how post-visit follow-up goes in most practices. The plan is to call every surgical patient the next day. Then the schedule fills, an emergency comes through the door and the calls slide to the end of the day, and then to tomorrow. Technicians mean to make them and get pulled into the next case.
Meanwhile clients with a pet who is not quite right do not call. They wait and hope it gets better. By the time the problem is obvious, a small complication has become a serious one, harder on the pet and more expensive for the family. Recheck appointments that should have been booked are missed, and the patient's recovery is left to chance. The technicians feel it most. They care about these patients, and knowing that the calls did not happen is one more weight at the end of a long shift.
What the Post-Visit Follow-Up Agent does, step by step
The communication comes first, because the point is to hear from the client before they decide to wait it out.
- Checks in at the right time. After a surgery or procedure, the Post-Visit Follow-Up Agent texts or emails the client through Twilio or Gmail at the times your doctors set, asking how the pet is doing.
- Asks the standard questions. It asks the recovery questions your veterinarians wrote for that procedure, such as appetite, energy, the incision and medication, in plain, kind language.
- Flags concerns to the doctor. Any answer your team has marked as concerning becomes an immediate task for the veterinarian, with the client's answers and the patient's record attached, so a doctor or technician calls back. It never gives medical advice itself.
- Reassures routine recoveries. When everything sounds normal, it thanks the client, reminds them of the care instructions and tells them how to reach the practice if anything changes.
- Books the recheck. It offers the recheck appointment the doctor ordered and confirms the time with the client.
Then the data work:
- Reads the visit. It takes the procedure, discharge instructions and recheck orders from Cornerstone or your practice management software.
- Logs every answer. Each check-in and answer is recorded on the patient's record, marked routine or flagged.
- Tracks rechecks. It watches for recheck appointments that were ordered but not booked and follows up with the client.
Where the work is recorded
An agent that cannot record its work is a chatbot. Every message, answer, flag and booking is saved on the client and patient record in your CRM and noted in the practice management software, so the whole care team sees the same recovery history.
The next morning your veterinarian opens the task list and sees which patients were flagged overnight and why, which routine recoveries were logged and which rechecks are still unbooked. When a client calls, whoever answers can read the check-in history and pick up exactly where the agent left off.
What your people do instead
Your technicians stay with the patients in the treatment area, monitor the pet waking up from anesthesia and support the doctor in surgery. Your veterinarians spend their follow-up time on the patients who need it, calling back the clients whose answers raised a concern.
That is how problems are caught while they are small and families feel looked after. The Post-Visit Follow-Up Agent keeps the check-ins, the flags and the recheck bookings moving so your team can care for the patients.
For more on easing the load on your team, see how a veterinary AI scribe ends late-night charting and how a veterinary phone answering service settles front desk chaos.
One next step
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