Flag red-flag symptoms in incoming patient messages
Urgent messages get seen first. Patient messages never stop, and in a membership practice a slow reply is felt. The work is reading, sorting and drafting, so the team can spend its time on the reply itself.
- Saved per message, estimated
- ~5 min
- Roles it helps: nurse and MA and physician
- 2
- Steps Tabflows handles for your team
- 3
How it runs
Starts: When a symptom message arrives in Spruce.
- Step 1
Read the symptoms described.
- Step 2
Compare against UpToDate red-flag criteria for that complaint.
- Step 3
Flag urgent threads to the nurse with the matched criteria.
Everything lands for your team to review, so the clinic stays in charge of every decision.
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We set this up on your Spruce and UpToDate accounts and keep it tuned to how your clinic works.
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Will patients get messages we haven't approved?
No. Tabflows drafts and sorts; your nurse and MA and physician reads, edits and sends. Nothing reaches a patient until someone on your team approves it.
Do we need to switch from Spruce and UpToDate?
No. Flag red-flag symptoms in incoming patient messages works inside the Spruce and UpToDate accounts your clinic already uses. There is nothing to migrate and no new system for your team to learn.
When does it run?
It starts when a symptom message arrives in Spruce. Tabflows works through 3 steps, and the result lands with your nurse and MA and physician, saving an estimated 5 min per message.