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Patient communication orchestration, without the patient-engagement suite

A planned way to line up the intake reminders, survey reminders and neutral review-request communication your DocRepute workflows already generate — sent at the right moment, and stopped the moment the patient responds. In early access ahead of launch.

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The message that never went out

Nothing about patient follow-up is difficult, which is exactly why it slips. The intake link goes out on Monday, three people have not opened it by Wednesday, and the person who would have chased them is covering the front desk. The survey that should follow a visit gets sent when somebody remembers, which means some patients get it and others do not. A review invitation goes to a patient who left one last month. Every practice manager already knows the fix — a short list of routine messages, sent at the right moment, with someone watching who has and has not responded — and almost nobody has an hour a day to run it by hand. That is what patient communication orchestration means here, and it is a much smaller idea than the engagement suites competing for the same search. Not a communications platform. Just the messages your own workflows need, lined up in one place and sent on time.

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One sequence, built out of the workflows you already run

Each DocRepute workflow generates its own message. A published intake form has an invitation and its intake reminders. A survey has an invitation and its survey reminders. A completed visit can carry neutral review-request communication, sent under the same eligibility rule for every patient. Orchestration is the layer that keeps three sensible things from becoming one annoying thing: it knows the order they belong in, how long to wait between them, when to stop, and — most usefully — when to stay quiet, because a patient who filled the form in on Monday evening should never be reminded about it on Tuesday morning. You set the timing and the limits once, in plain terms: how many reminders, how far apart, how close to the appointment the last one goes, who is eligible for anything at all. After that the sequence follows the patient rather than the calendar, and your front desk goes back to answering the phone.

The rules you set, and the one we set for you

Almost everything here runs on rules your practice writes. One rule is not yours to change, and that is deliberate. Review invitations go to every eligible patient on identical terms, regardless of what they scored on a survey, what they wrote in the free-text box, or how the visit felt to your team. There is no sentiment branch, no happier-patients path, and nothing that filters, delays or suppresses who gets asked. It is the same product decision that makes the rest of this safe to automate: when the rule is neutral, nobody at the desk has to make a judgement call about an individual patient in the moment, and you can describe exactly how your review process works to anyone who asks. Everything else — the wording, the cadence, who is in scope, when to stop — stays with your team, and any message can be paused or switched off without unpicking the workflow behind it.

A Wednesday at a four-provider family practice

Twenty-two patients are booked for Thursday and Friday. Eleven completed their intake form when the invitation first arrived; the other eleven have not opened it. On Wednesday morning the reminder goes to those eleven and to nobody else. By Thursday lunchtime nine more are in, and the two still outstanding show up on a short list the front desk can genuinely work through — two phone calls, not twenty-two. Meanwhile the patients seen on Monday get their survey, and those eligible get a review invitation on the same schedule as everybody else, without anyone deciding who deserves one. The practice manager's involvement that week came to about fifteen minutes: she read the survey responses, moved one reminder from two days out to three, and left the rest alone. That is the whole promise. Not more messages — fewer, better timed, and consistent enough that patients actually read them.

Which channels, and what is deliberately missing

DocRepute plans to send these messages through its own native patient messaging, and SMS reminders have a page of their own because that is where the channel detail belongs. What matters here is the boundary. This is operational patient-experience communication — forms, surveys and review invitations — and nothing else. It does not schedule appointments and will not book, move or cancel anything. It does not take payments or chase balances. It is not a clinical chat channel, not a two-way inbox for patients to describe symptoms in, and not case management. It does not integrate with or write back to your EHR. Those exclusions are not a roadmap tease; they are the shape of the product, and they are the reason it stays simple enough for a four-person front desk to run without training. Everything described on this page is planned and in early access, including the messaging channel itself.

Status, access and what it costs

Patient communication orchestration is a planned capability and DocRepute is in early access ahead of launch, so this describes what is being built rather than something you can switch on this afternoon. Early access genuinely matters here: the reminder cadence that suits a physiotherapy clinic seeing someone twice a week is not the one a surgical consultation clinic needs, and those defaults are being set now, with the practices in the programme. The access model is settled. The free plan includes 50 action credits a month, and a credit is used only when a patient completes a regular intake submission or a standard survey — building, editing and publishing forms and surveys costs nothing, and the free plan has no AI. Paid plans add AI intake, conversational surveys, and sentiment and topic analysis. DocRepute is HIPAA-focused and built for HIPAA-compliant workflows, with a BAA planned to be available at launch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

It is the coordination of the routine messages a patient-experience workflow produces — the invitation, the reminders, the follow-up — so they arrive in a sensible order, at sensible intervals, and stop when the patient has done the thing they were asked to do. In DocRepute the scope is deliberately narrow: intake invitations and intake reminders, survey invitations and survey reminders, and neutral review-request communication. It is not a general messaging platform, and it does not try to be the single channel for everything a practice says to a patient.

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