Ask Avo acts as a “digital front door” for clinicians, helping them navigate their complex EHR with ease. Ask Avo is actionable, allowing providers to ask for a patient chart summary pre-visit, a care gaps analysis, an ambient note, an order placement, and more. This unique combination of clinical decision support paired with real-time actions not only enhances provider decision-making but also saves them valuable time and improves patient outcomes.

Avo’s clinician support platform empowers healthcare organizations to standardize care and reduce burnout by effortlessly incorporating guidelines and protocols into the clinical workflow. By centralizing the latest information and transforming it into actionable tools in the EHR (or outside of it), Avo simplifies everyday tasks like pre-charting, care planning, documentation, ordering, and more. 

Avo’s foundational product, Avo Pathway, is a medical reference tool that comes with a free library of digitized society guidelines and top calculators. In addition to customizing pre-built templates from leading medical societies and academic medical centers, health systems can leverage their own content to turn pages of guidelines and protocols into useful clinical tools.  

Avo’s time-saving AI product, Avo Assistant, is an end-to-end clinical workflow tool that helps healthcare organizations reduce burnout by automating every day tasks like pre-charting, care planning, documentation (with ambient listening) and ordering. 

The platform is EHR integrated and powered by its "no-code" Avo Builder, which allows systems to use drag-and-drop functionality to customize Avo products. After a quick one-time install, updates can be published immediately without needing IT support. 

Avo was built for clinicians, by clinicians. Randomized control trials have shown that Avo saves clinicians 50% of their time on average and has improved admission delays to the ED by 30%. Importantly, nearly 100% of Avo users advocate for more Avo use cases after implementation. At Avo, we believe there is a better way to standardize care - with love, not alerts. 

ReferralMD delivers proven solutions for Digital Front Door, eConsults, Referrals, Faxing and Marketing that help hospitals, health systems, networks, and payers streamline the referral process, decrease patient leakage, and improve communication between providers and patients. 

>>> HOW WE HELP <<<

Digital Front Door

• Patient Access Tools
• Patient Scheduling
• SmartCHAT Patient Intake
• Patient Communications

eConsults & Referrals

• Consult Management
• Referral Management
• Prior Authorizations
• SmartFAX Management

Marketing & Services

• Marketing CRM
• Advanced Analytics
• Professional Services
• SmartEXCHANGE Integrations

>>> WHO WE HELP <<<

Health Systems/ACOs/DSRIPs/CINs

• Reducing patient leakage through SmartMatch decision support and real-time analytics
• Standardizing and streamlining the referral management process across the organization
• Driving operational efficiencies and allowing referral teams to scale more efficiently

PCPs/FQHCs/Dental Practices

• Matching patients with appropriate providers using SmartMatch decision support
• Closing the feedback loop with specialists and reducing phone calls and faxes
• Increasing patients LTV to ensure they are not lost to competitors after referrals are sent

Specialty Care Organizations

• Increasing referral volume and capturing more revenue using CRM and marketing tools
• Improving customer service with referring providers through automated status reports
• Managing referral network and gaining insight into referral patterns using analytics 

ReferralMD delivers proven solutions for Digital Front Door, eConsults, Referrals, Faxing and Marketing that help hospitals, health systems, networks, and payers streamline the referral process, decrease patient leakage, and improve communication between providers and patients. The enterprise platform matches patients with the most appropriate providers and closes the feedback loop between providers and patients. The solution’s powerful workflow and clinical decision support tools help healthcare providers increase revenue, drive operational efficiencies, and improve customer service. To learn more about ReferralMD, please visit www.getreferralmd.com.

Does not exist within most/all EHRs today 

• EHR Integration ond Actionability: Tools not integrated into the EHR are never top-of-mind for clinicians and therefore require a huge investment from health systems to drive up adoption. Additionally, point solutions slow clinicians down instead of streamlining everything they need in one place. Ask Avo is designed to integrate seamlessly into EHR systems, leveraging nationwide patient data from HIEs to provide relevant and trustworthy responses based on the latest system and society guidelines. 
• Customizable, Actionable & Easy to Deploy: AI consult tools currently in the market simply produce a basic clinical summary, aren’t customizable, and lack critical, hospital-specific guidelines that meet the needs of local populations. Additionally, many tools require a tremendous amount of time and effort for IT teams to create, implement, and maintain. Ask Avo is never one-size-fits-all. Using Avo's customizable, back-end Builder, healthcare systems can swiftly customize and upload their own guidelines to Avo’s Knowledge Base and work with Avo’s team of informatics and technical experts to determine various guidelines’ relevance in clinical settings. In other words, health systems are empowered to implement AI within their own determined limits, prioritizing responses based on their guidelines and unique patient populations. 
• Trustworthy, Relevant & Transparent: Studies have shown that, especially in healthcare, ChatGPT is prone to hallucinations and incorrect or irrelevant source citations, in some cases referencing research that does not even exist. Health system decision-makers often lack insight and control into how AI tools on the market will guide their clinicians.Ask Avo is much more than a clinical summary aggregating information from often out-of-date and irrelevant sources. It is designed to generate responses from recent content relevant to the institution whose clinicians are using it. The tool's unique design includes a proprietary questioning system triple verification against trusted guidelines, and offers clinician visibility and control, further enhancing its reliability. 
• In a recent study of Ask Avo, 61 clinicians were asked to question both Ask Avo and ChatGPT 4o with the same 10 clinical prompts that involved questions about complex patient scenarios. After receiving a response, the physicians rated the answers based on trustworthiness, actionability, relevancy, comprehensiveness, and format-friendliness. Ask Avo outperformed ChatGPT 4o on all fronts with an average of 33% better ratings across all criteria and was statistically significantly better. Clinicians' feedback included, “Ask Avo is MUCH better than ChatGPT. I love the citations built directly into the source and the ability to easily pull those citations up on the same tab. I love the "AI Fact-Check" option that makes the limitations clear as well. This is excellent” and “This program cited its sources, which increases my comfort and trust in it tremendously.”

• Online Scheduling – new patients can book appointments from your website without setting up an EHR patient portal account
• Referral Management – website portal for receiving referrals, customized workflow, automated alerts when referrals need attention
• Patient Communications – automated text/email messages sent to patients triggered at specific steps in the consult or referral journey
• Provider Communications – automated consult and referral status updates sent to sending providers to close the loop between PCPs and specialists
• Fax Management – manage all inbound faxes and push faxed referrals into the referral workflow, ability to split faxes into multiple documents
• Marketing CRM – physician liaisons can document outreach and compare outreach activity with referral volume from their partners
• Market Research – over 7 million providers pre-loaded which allows you to identify new potential referral partners in your target markets
• Referral Analytics – comprehensive suite of analytics to report on all your referral metrics (trends, volume, leakage, service levels, outreach, etc.)

Differentiator 1: All-In-One Platform

• Some vendors offer patient access, referral management, e-consults or CRMs. Our cloud-based platform offers them all plus the following features.
• Real-time analytics across the platform
• Automated workflow and decision support tools
• Automated feedback loop with referring providers
• Automated patient communications via text or email
• Integrated fax management system (port over existing fax numbers)
• Integrated Customer/Partner Relationship Management (CRM/PRM)
• Marketing research tools based on a directory of over 7 million providers

Differentiator 2: Rapid Integration Capabilities

• Our integration engine allows our Integrations Team to quickly deploy system interfaces using APIs, FHIR, HL7, Direct, etc. which is important when implementing the platform for health systems, ACOs and CINs with many EHRs, data warehouses and other third-party systems across their networks.  
• In addition, we comply with the third-party system’s specifications rather than asking the vendor to follow our requirements which streamlines the integration process and reduces cost for the client. 

Differentiator 3: All Healthcare Referrals Supported

• The system is highly configurable and can support all healthcare referral types such as medical, specialty care, therapy, imaging, dental, behavioral health, hospice, home care, etc.  
• The customization in the system allows clients to define their own workflows, referral forms, patient communication templates, and other settings that can be standardized across the organization.