Echo for Clinically Integrated Networks
Coordinated care starts at the front deskacross every participant, on every EHR
A Clinically Integrated Network's (CIN's) shared care standards only matter if patients actually get scheduled, referred in-network, and followed up. Echo is an AI front desk you can extend to every participant as a standardized access layer, answering every call, text, and web form 24/7 and booking directly into each practice's own EHR. Participants keep their systems and their independence while the network finally gets consistent, measurable access.
Clinical integration succeeds or fails on coordination: the referral that gets booked in-network, the care gap that gets closed, the follow-up that actually happens. But a Clinically Integrated Network (CIN) is a network of otherwise-independent providers on different EHRs, with uneven phone answer rates and no shared way to make sure patients move smoothly between participants. Echo gives every participant the same always-on front desk that captures in-network referrals, runs care-gap and quality outreach, and books directly into whatever system that office already runs. It surfaces access and coordination data centrally so the CIN can see and lift the whole network, and it runs alongside existing staff without forcing anyone to switch platforms.
The problem
Where access breaks down at scale
In-network referrals leak because no one schedules them
A participant refers a patient to a specialist inside the network, hands over a phone number, and assumes coordination will follow. The patient never gets a call back, books elsewhere, or drops off entirely, and the referral that should have stayed in-network and supported coordinated care quietly leaks out.
Access varies wildly across participants on different EHRs
One member office answers nearly every call; another sends most to voicemail by mid-morning, and each runs its own EHR with its own front-desk habits. Those uneven answer rates become missed appointments and broken handoffs that undermine the network's shared care standards and value-based performance.
Care-gap and quality outreach is inconsistent network-wide
Closing gaps and reducing avoidable utilization depends on someone calling patients for due screenings, follow-ups, and chronic-care check-ins. At smaller participants with no spare staff, that outreach simply doesn't happen, so gaps stay open and the network's quality and value-based numbers suffer.
No unified visibility into network access and coordination
Each participant can see its own front desk, but the CIN has no single view of answer rates, bookings, referral capture, or outreach across the network. Without that visibility, the CIN can't tell where coordination is breaking down or prove its access and coordination performance to payers.
How Echo helps
Built for clinically integrated networks
In-network referral capture and scheduling
When a participant refers within the network, Echo proactively reaches the patient, answers their questions, and books the appointment with the in-network specialist directly in that office's EHR. Referrals get scheduled instead of leaking, so coordinated care stays inside the network where the CIN can manage it.
Network-wide access standardization on any EHR
Echo answers every inbound call, text, email, and web form for participating practices in under a second, 24/7, and books or reschedules into each office's existing system. Every participant gets the same instant, reliable front door while keeping their own EHR and their independence.
Care-gap and quality outreach at scale
Echo runs proactive outreach for open quality measures and follow-ups: due screenings, chronic-care check-ins, and post-discharge calls that reduce avoidable utilization. It calls and texts patients across all participants and books the appointment that closes the gap, even at offices with no spare staff.
Automated reminders and recall
Echo reactivates lapsed patients and runs reminders for upcoming visits across the network, confirming, rescheduling, or rebooking as needed. Consistent recall keeps attributed patients engaged and supports continuity of care between participants throughout the contract year.
Multilingual communication in 70+ languages
Echo speaks with patients in their preferred language across every channel, so a participant in a multilingual community delivers the same access as any other. Language is no longer a barrier to scheduling, referrals, intake, or quality outreach anywhere in the network.
Central reporting on access and coordination
Echo reports call volume, answer rates, bookings, referral capture, reminders, and outreach results in one view spanning every participant. The CIN can see how patients move across the network, tie front-desk performance to quality and value-based goals, and prove coordination to payers.
Questions
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Echo for the specialties you operate
Health 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.
Explore Echo for Health SystemsFamily 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.
Explore Echo for Family Medicine & Primary CareCardiology
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.
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How clinically integrated networks put Echo to work
Referral Intake & Management
A referral is both a patient who needs care and a relationship with the office that sent them, and both lose value the longer it sits. When referrals stall in a fax tray no one owns, patients wait and referring offices quietly start sending elsewhere. Echo runs the pipeline end to end: intake, patient outreach, scheduling, and records.
Explore Referral Intake & ManagementAI Appointment Scheduling
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 SchedulingPatient No-Show Reduction
An empty slot is revenue you can't recover and a patient whose care just stalled. Echo works the problem from both ends: confirmation outreach that earns an actual reply, and waitlist backfill that moves the instant a cancellation lands.
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