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Product Description:

It may seem like every conversational AI vendor is saying the same thing these days. SoundHound’s Amelia Conversational AI Platform stands out as the most trusted among healthcare organizations because:

  • Our proprietary voice AI with our best-in-class conversational and generative AI capabilities powers secure, omnichannel, natural-language AI agents for patient-facing, member-facing, and employee-facing use cases. 
  • Our AI agents integrate with EHRs like Epic and Cerner, as well as CCaaS platforms, to fully automate personalized, end-to-end resolutions for patients, members, and employees.
  • Our platform is currently in production with some of the largest health systems in the United States and conducts thousands of concurrent interactions every day.

With our Amelia Platform, leading health systems experience:

  • ~$4M saved annually on 1 million inbound patient calls
  • 4.4/5 patient satisfaction scores from AI agent interactions
  • <1 minute average time-to-resolution for employee help desk requests
About SoundHound AI:

We believe every brand should have a voice and every person should be able to interact naturally with the products around them—by simply talking.

SoundHound’s independent voice AI platform connects people to brands through customized conversational experiences that voice-enable products, services, and apps while giving companies access to their valuable data and analytics for greater control and brand ownership of the customer experience.

Product Description:

The only evidence-based, explainable AI triage built on gold-standard clinical protocols trusted by every major health system.

Clearstep identifies the safest, most appropriate next step and routes patients directly into bookable care, based on real-time system capacity, eligibility, provider preferences, hours, distance, insurance rules, and more.

Why Clearstep is Chosen:

  • Reduces unnecessary ED/urgent volume by 40–70%
  • Lowers clinical risk with transparent, guideline-aligned logic
  • Eliminates friction by accelerating time-to-right-care
  • Aligns patients to your care pathways, not generic recommendations
  • Most academically validated + widely deployed triage AI (2024 & 2025 NPJ Digital Medicine)

Solves: cost-efficient 24/7 patient access + support, inappropriate utilization, long waits, siloed triage tools, outdated decision trees.

About Clearstep:

Clearstep is the most widely implemented agentic AI platform for patient access and capacity optimization in U.S. health systems. Built on Dr. Barton Schmitt’s nationally trusted clinical triage protocols, Clearstep delivers >95% accuracy, transparent and explainable decisioning, and the strongest clinical rigor of any AI-powered triage or navigation solution on the market.

Clearstep partners with leading health systems—including HCA Healthcare, Ochsner Health, Mount Sinai Health System, Novant Health, Tufts Medicine, and Baylor Scott & White—to solve their most urgent access and operations challenges: misrouted care, overwhelmed call centers, fragmented digital entry points, and underused provider and facility capacity.

Through its Smart Care Routing™ platform, Clearstep removes the friction, waste, and variability that keep patients from reaching the right care and keep health systems from using their resources effectively.

By powering every digital and phone front door with AI agents that triage, navigate, schedule, intake, and support call center workflows, Clearstep delivers a seamless, guided patient experience—while unlocking millions in operational efficiency through smarter, data-driven utilization of clinical and facility capacity.

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Product Capabilities

Our platform automates appointment management, including scheduling, rescheduling, confirming, and canceling patient appointments.

Patients and providers converse in natural language with AI agents powered by our Conversational AI platform to complete tasks, resolve issues, and find information. Conversations with our AI agents are free-flowing and bidirectional.

Our AI agents are context-aware, taking into account previous and current conversations with users when forming a response. Our AI agents also leverage secure integrations with EHRs to provide users with personalized and relevant information and assistance based on their records.

Our Conversational AI platform integrates with numerous EHR systems, including Epic, Cerner, Meditech, and others. In addition, our platform is equipped with 40+ out-of-the-box channel gateways, including with Cisco, Five9, and WhatsApp, as well as with email and contact center systems.

We are committed to protecting patient privacy. We are HIPAA compliant, as well as ISO27001, SOC2 Type II, and PCI-DSS certified.

Our AI agents can be deployed across any channel where humans also provide support (i.e. phone, text, webchat, etc.). Across all voice and chat channels, our AI agents conduct natural language conversations that feel like talking with a human.

Our platform is capable of conducting thousands of concurrent conversations. This capability allows the platform to scale when demand spikes, and/or as use cases and user adoption grows.

Our platform is always on the cutting-edge of AI innovation. We leverage the latest AI technologies and methodologies, such as agentic AI, generative AI, and LLMs, to deliver powerful solutions that drive long-term value for our customers and their customers.

AI agents built on our Conversational AI platform use the most up-to-date information from health systems' websites and content sources to deliver relevant and accurate responses to users.

Use Cases

Description:

Use Cases for Health Systems & Providers:

By deploying AI agents powered by our Conversational AI platform, health systems provide patients with a digital health service that is secure and industry compliant - from selecting doctors and scheduling appointments, through ongoing care management.

  • Intelligent IVR: Escalations, Call Routing, and Triage
  • Find Locations, Doctors, and Services
  • Scheduling Management (Schedule, Reschedule, Cancel, Confirm, Recall)
  • Patient Outreach (Care Management, Care Gaps, PROs, Medication Adherence)
  • Intake and Pre-Registration
  • Patient Payments, Financial Assistance, Collections
  • Symptom Checker, Virtual Triage, Risk Assessments
  • Patient Surveys

Use Cases for Health Plans (Members):

Our AI agents act as trusted guides to doctors, dentists, and pharmacies, helping patients enroll in new health plans, determine coverage eligibility and benefits, update and expand coverage, and file and track claims.

  • Update Profile, PCP, and Coverage Information
  • Replace ID Cards/Password Resets
  • Find a Provider, Dentist, or Pharmacy
  • Coverage Benefits/Eligibility (Medical, Dental, and Pharmacy)
  • Claims Inquiries and Explanations
  • Enrollment

Use Cases for Health Plans (Providers):

Health plans deploy our AI agents as the first point-of-contact for members, offloading administrative tasks from employees while allowing members to quickly secure answers on coverage status, approvals, and authorizations.

  • Approvals and Authorizations
  • Member Coverage Status and Inquiries
  • Provider Administrative Services
  • Bill Payment Status
Pediatric use cases:

None provided

Users:

Healthcare:

  • Aveanna Healthcare
  • MUSC Health
  • Visionworks

Non-healthcare:

  • Asics
  • BNP Paribas Securities Services
  • The United States Navy
Description:

We white-labeled and fully-configured a COVID-19 screener to the care access points (hospitals, telemedicine providers, nurse hotlines, and at-home resources of a 17-hospital system (reach out to learn specifics). A COVID-alert message on the home page routes users to the option to screen their symptoms for risk of infection and presentation of system-wide care options. The entire process of whitelabeling, configuring, implementing, testing, and going live was complete in 5 business days.

Pediatric use cases:

Clearstep's virtual triage platform is able to route >99% of adult and pediatric chief complaints towards their evidence-based next step.

Users:

Once live, an e-mail campaign was sent out to 650,000 residents in the areas surrounding the system to inform them that they could screen their symptoms. The email achieved the highest engagement rates of any mailer ever (3x higher email open rate and click-through rates). The COVID screener was used 30,000 times in the first three days.

EHR Integrations

Integrations:

Acute care EMR, Ambulatory EMR, Ancillary EMR, Access +/or revenue cycle

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

Required

EMRs Supported:

Epic, Cerner, Meditech, NextGen, eClinicalWorks

Hardware Compatibility:

Desktop, Mobile / Tablet (web optimized)

Integrations:

Acute care EMR, Ambulatory EMR, Ancillary EMR, Patient portal, Pop health platform, Website / public online sources, Other

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

Recommended, but not required

EMRs Supported:

Epic, Cerner, Meditech, Allscripts, athena, Other, Self-developed, NextGen, GE, eClinicalWorks, McKesson, Allscripts/Eclipsys, Athenahealth, Azalea Health/Prognosis, CPSI, Evident, Healthland, MEDHOST, MedWorx, QuadraMed

Hardware Compatibility:

Desktop, Mobile / Tablet (web optimized), Other, Mobile / Tablet (native app)

Client Types

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Differentiators

Differentiators vs EHR Functionality:

Our Conversational AI platform is:

  • A voice-enabled platform for contact center transformation
  • Omnichannel (voice, SMS, webchat, etc.)
  • Fully interoperable with existing CCaaS technology
  • Able to respond using answers generated from a health system's website content, as well as from pre-determined FAQs
Differentiators vs Competitors:

Our Conversational AI platform:

  • Communicates using human-like natural language
  • Leverages our proprietary voice AI
  • Is end-to-end fully interoperable with Epic and other EHR systems
  • Is a universal platform for patient-facing, member-facing, and employee-facing use cases
  • Scales to handle thousands of concurrent interactions
  • Has financial stability from being part of the largest public conversational AI company
Differentiators vs EHR Functionality:
Clearstep marries disparate data sets that exist in various locations within the system. We take the responsibility to marry clinical content, provider directories, insurance & eligibility information, claims data, and scheduling systems so that your system's teams do not have to. Clearstep is ready-made and fully-supported by our development team.platform that is customizable to your health system's specific resources. Clearstep's business solution package also offers patient targeting to ensure that patients searching specific symptoms within a health system's geography are routed into that system via a seamless, effortless, already-built user experience.
Differentiators vs Competitors:
Clearstep is the only solution providing an end-to-end user experience that guides patients through all aspects of booking care. Our symptom checker is powered by the most accurate triage, diagnostic, and home care content available and is derived off content that is already used in 95% of nurse call centers in the country. Clearstep uniquely offers a natural language processing engine that can handle free-text descriptions of an individual's chief complaint. In addition to featuring the most accurate content available, Clearstep's digital dialog asks the least number of questions as compared to competitor platforms and provides a single next-best step. Competitors often provide multiple possible causes and next steps that reduce clarity for the end-user's next step.

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