Echo for Accountable Care Organizations
An AI front desk built forthe work that earns shared savings.
Shared savings come from patients who stay engaged, get their annual wellness visit, and are reached after a hospital discharge before a problem becomes an avoidable readmission. Echo runs that outreach at scale across every attributed patient, answers inbound so patients reach care instead of the emergency department (ED), and reports engagement centrally across all participant practices.
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are judged on the cost and quality of a whole attributed population, but most of the work that moves those numbers happens by phone. Annual wellness visits have to be scheduled, discharged patients need a transitional care call within days, chronic-care patients need regular contact, and open care gaps need someone to reach out and close them. Overworked participant practices rarely have the staff to make those calls consistently, and the patients who can't get through end up in the emergency department (ED). Echo handles this outreach across every participant, answers inbound around the clock, and gives population-health leaders one view of engagement spanning the whole ACO.
The problem
Where access breaks down at scale
Post-discharge transitional care management (TCM) calls don't happen in time
Transitional care management requires reaching a patient within a couple of days of discharge, exactly when the front desk is buried. The calls that catch a missed medication or a worsening symptom are the ones most likely to slip, and a skipped follow-up can turn into an avoidable readmission.
Annual wellness visits go unscheduled and care gaps stay open
Annual wellness visits (AWVs) are where care gaps get found and the care plan gets set, but they only happen if someone proactively calls eligible patients and books them. The registry can flag every overdue screening, lab, and chronic-care touchpoint, but closing those gaps still depends on outbound calls a stretched practice can't make at population scale.
Poor access pushes patients to the ED
When a patient can't get a call answered or an appointment within a reasonable window, the emergency department becomes the path of least resistance. Avoidable ED and urgent-care visits are some of the most expensive failures of access an ACO absorbs.
Outreach is uneven across participant practices
An ACO spans many practices on different EHRs, each with its own staffing and phone habits. Some run disciplined outreach and some barely manage inbound, so engagement and quality vary widely and there is no consistent picture of who has actually been contacted.
How Echo helps
Built for accountable care organizations
Transitional care outreach after discharge
Echo calls discharged patients within the days that matter, checks in on the care plan and medications, and books the follow-up visit while it has them on the line. Anything clinical is routed to the right care-team contact so the human touchpoints land where they count.
Annual wellness visit scheduling campaigns
Echo works the eligible list for each participant, calls and texts patients to schedule their AWV, and books directly into the practice's EHR. It keeps following up with patients who don't answer the first time instead of letting them lapse for the year.
Care-gap and chronic care management outreach
Echo reaches patients with open care gaps and chronic care management (CCM)-enrolled patients on the cadence the program calls for, getting overdue screenings, labs, and check-ins scheduled. Running this outreach at population scale is what turns a registry of gaps into closed ones.
Strong inbound access to deflect avoidable ED use
Echo answers every call, text, web form, and email instantly, 24/7, and gets patients to an appointment or the right resource. When patients can actually reach care, far fewer of them default to the emergency department for things a timely visit would handle.
Outreach in the patient's own language
Echo communicates in 70+ languages across calls and texts, so language is never the reason a TCM call, AWV reminder, or care-gap outreach fails to connect. Engagement stays consistent across a diverse attributed population.
Central engagement reporting across participants
Echo runs across all participant practices regardless of which EHR each uses and rolls the activity up into one view. Population-health leaders can see who has been contacted, what was scheduled, and where engagement is lagging across the whole ACO.
Questions
Frequently asked
Can Echo run our TCM, AWV, and CCM outreach?
Yes. Echo runs post-discharge transitional care calls within the required window, works the eligible list to schedule annual wellness visits, and contacts chronic care management patients on their cadence. It books directly into the EHR and keeps following up with patients who don't answer the first time, which is the part overworked practices struggle to sustain.
We span many participant practices on different EHRs. Does Echo work across all of them?
It does. Echo integrates with each participant's system and runs the same outreach and inbound coverage everywhere, then reports centrally. You get consistent engagement across the network rather than depending on each practice's own staffing and phone habits.
How does this support our quality measures and patient engagement?
Closing care gaps, completing AWVs, and following up after discharge all depend on reaching the patient, and that is the work Echo does at scale. Stronger inbound access also keeps patients connected to care instead of the ED. Echo improves the engagement and access these measures depend on, though clinical outcomes always remain in your providers' hands.
Can Echo document the outreach for our reporting?
Yes. Echo logs every contact attempt, connection, and appointment booked, and rolls it up across participants into one view. Your population-health team can see who has been reached, what was scheduled, and where outreach is lagging, which feeds the documentation your programs require.
Does Echo preserve clinical escalation?
Always. Echo handles scheduling, outreach, and information, and the moment a patient raises a clinical concern or needs a nurse or provider, Echo routes them to the right person on your care team following your protocols. It extends your staff's reach without ever standing between a patient and clinical judgment.
Across your network
Echo for the specialties you operate
Family Medicine & Primary Care
A primary care panel of 2,000 patients generates a relentless, predictable stream of contacts: someone needs a refill, someone wants to know if their A1c came back, someone woke up sick and wants to be seen today, and someone is overdue for their Medicare Annual Wellness Visit. Echo handles each of those call types according to your protocols, routing, booking, recalling, so your front desk staff don't spend their day buried in the phone queue instead of serving the patient at the counter.
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Cardiology practices carry a heavier scheduling burden than almost any other specialty: sequenced diagnostic studies with strict prep protocols, emotionally loaded results calls, device-check cadences for implanted ICD and pacemaker patients, and a constant stream of chest-pain referrals that need to move fast. Echo covers inbound calls, texts, emails, and digital forms around the clock, routing each contact to the right outcome without holding anyone.
Explore Echo for CardiologyHealth Systems
Health system access is measured in two ways: whether patients can get through, and whether they get to the right place when they do. Today most systems fail on both. Echo connects to your enterprise EHR, routes patients intelligently across departments and campuses, absorbs call center overflow during surge periods, and ensures that every owned specialist referral gets followed to a booked appointment, all without adding headcount to your access center.
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How accountable care organizations put Echo to work
After-Hours Answering Service
A large share of patient calls land when the lobby is dark or the desk is underwater. A message service writes it down; a voicemail box just collects it. Echo finishes the work instead, scheduling the visit, fielding the question, and escalating anything urgent, then summarizing it all for the morning.
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Scheduling is the busiest task at the front desk and the first one to bottleneck. Echo runs booking end to end: it knows which provider takes which visit, how long each slot runs, and what prep belongs with it, writes the appointment to your EHR, and sends the patient what they need to show up ready.
Explore AI Appointment SchedulingMultilingual Patient Communication
The community a practice serves is rarely all one language, but the front desk usually is. Echo closes that distance: it converses fluently in 70+ languages, so a patient who speaks Spanish, Mandarin, Vietnamese, or Haitian Creole gets the same fast, accurate help as anyone else, with no interpreter to schedule for a routine call.
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