Top 10 Referral Management Alternatives & Competitors

ReferralMD delivers AI-powered solutions for Referral Management, eConsults, Appointment Management, Fax Management, Patient Scheduling, Intake and Communications, Marketing CRM and Analytics. Our solutions help hospitals, health systems, networks, and payers streamline the referral process, decrease patient leakage, and improve communication between providers and patients. The enterprise platform’s powerful workflow automation tools help healthcare providers drive operational efficiencies, increase revenue, and improve customer service. To learn more about ReferralMD, please visit www.getreferralmd.com..

>>> HOW WE HELP <<<

Digital Front Door

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

Operations

• Consult Management
• Referral Management
• Appointments and Scheduling
• AI Fax 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 

Help your patients easily book the care they need with online appointment scheduling based on real-time, accurate provider availability—all integrated into your EHR. The customizable, easy-to-use scheduling solution ensures provider availability is always up-to-date. 

As part of Kyruus Connect, Schedule empowers patients to quickly find and schedule the appointments they need at any time—all within your health system’s digital front door.

Available for direct-to-patients or for internal call centers, staff and admin users, to ensure patients schedule care before leaving the office. Schedule is integrated with Epic, Cerner, athenahealth and MEDITECH Expanse. Integrations are also available for Salesforce CRM and Microsoft Dynamics.

Orbita's Digital Front Door ("DFD") product enables healthcare organizations to enable, guide and support patients through automated and AI applications. 

Capabilities include:

• Chat Assistant Q&A (Flows and GenAI)
• Live Chat
• Phone to Live Chat Hand-off
• Appointment Request Forms
• Patient Appointment Screener
• Appointment Management (Confirm/Cancel/Reschedule)

Exceed consumer expectations with consistent branding, one text thread, and an intuitive interface. 

Before the visit: Easy online booking that expands your presence beyond your website, and registration so simple 75% of patients complete it before their visit.

• High-converting booking on your website
• Direct booking from Google Business Profile and Google & Apple Maps
• Discovery on Solv website & app
• Digital registration & intake

During the visit: Patients know when they’ll be seen (up to 46% faster with Solv) and how much it will cost them.

• Support for in-person and telemed appointments
• 2-way chat
• Digital check-in kiosk & QR code
• Mobile waitlist
• Upfront payment

Beyond the visit: Get a 30%+ lift on reviews, patient payments, and rebookings — by maintaining relationships on one familiar text thread.

• Google review collection
• Text-to-pay & autocollection using card on file
• Advanced patient surveys
• Automated & broadcast messaging campaigns
• 2-tap rebooking

Interactive notifications let patients know when they've been referred, book, and get real-time confirmation. Patients can receive automated reminders to finish scheduling a referral on a cadence, depending on the organization's workflows and needs. Patient bookings are integrated directly with the EHR schedule, and providers can be notified when a patient completes scheduling.

Increase rates of referral conversion to completed appointments, cut out the phone tag for staff, and streamline patient acquisition with self-service opportunities for patients.

Without Hyro, health system call centers are reaching the burnout threshold too quickly. That’s when the perfect storm of missed calls, long wait times and poor user experience hits hard, ultimately causing patient churn and lost revenues. With Hyro, call center capacity is a non-issue, with 65-85% of calls being automatically deflected or resolved end-to-end, and the remainder of calls being quickly and accurately routed to the right departments.

It's an ever-clean filter you never need to change – Hyro has a three-pronged system to sorting call volume, automating routine calls without human intervention, directing complex calls to the right agent, and deflecting simple calls to SMS for self-service.

Smart Routing:

Navigate calls to the accurate source of support with natural language understanding (NLU)- based smart routing. Instantly match and transfer patient queries to the right service departments, skipping complicated audio menus and lengthy wait times in the process.

End-to-End Resolution:

Automate key digital services from start to finish with conversational AI end-to-end resolution. Solve routine requests such as physician scheduling, paying bills and getting answers to critical questions, without a human in the loop.

SMS Deflection/ Call-to-Text:

Shield overloaded call center teams from repetitive tasks with SMS Deflection (Call-to-Text). Funnel patients to self-serve with the resources you’ve already invested in, directing them to patient portals, FAQ pages, chat solutions and mobile app features.

Benefits:

• 3-10 day deployment
• Zero client-side maintenance
• 60-85% deflection/ resolution of calls and messages
• 5x Average Handle Time
• 99% reduction in Average Hold Time
• Pre-loaded skills, like scheduling and routing
• Proprietary natural language engine that adapts to patients' dialects, phrasing, sentiment and more
• Integrations with Epic EMR, Salesforce, and major telephony providers like Cisco, NICE, Genesys and Twilio

Incubated at Providence, Praia Health orchestrates digital interactions and disconnected point solutions, creating a cohesive experience for consumers spanning both clinical and nonclinical interactions that influence health outcomes. These experiences can be accessed through a single set of account credentials tied to an authenticated user’s personalized profile. Following in the footsteps of other consumer-driven industries, Praia unlocks digital transformation for health systems by managing the heavy lifting and custom integrations required for a frictionless consumer experience. Praia provides health systems with a platform to connect disparate digital programs, services, and tools, allowing them to deliver a more personalized experience, increase conversion rates, and drive system loyalty.

HealthNautica’s eORders™, software is a comprehensive, easy-to-use, cloud solution for managing the entire perioperative process and surgical scheduling without changing your scheduling system. It begins with the physician’s office filling out an online surgery scheduling or procedure request.

Gone are the days of illegible, incomplete, inaccurate faxes sent back and forth between the physician’s office and the facility’s scheduling department. The cumbersome and error prone faxing process is replaced by an electronic form that is configured to each facility’s exact specifications and reacts to the user’s input thereby assisting the physician’s office in getting it right the first time.

All orders are legible, complete, screened for CMS Medical Necessity, incorporate SCIP, VTE, SSI and ACS NSQIP measures, verified for insurance eligibility, pre-certified and satisfy edits by CMS, commercial payers and the facility. Our solution ensures efficient surgery center scheduling and block time management while streamlining processes such as prior authorization.

Hand-off Referrals to Artera

Artera Referrals creates automated, omnichannel referral outreach to modernize the care experience and eliminate manual referral management.

Drive Results with Referral Templates

Rapidly deploy personalized referral outreach by using turn-key, leading practice conversation templates.

• Automatically receive referrals from the EHR to trigger referral outreach from a known number on the patient’s preferred communication channel
• Customize outreach and manage message fatigue with messaging rules that abide by TCPA hours
• Reduce call center overload and increase referral conversions with throttling to improve referral conversion

Uncover Insights & Improve Efficiency

Less than half of providers have data needed to understand their own referrals.

• Access comprehensive reports on referral management and conversions
• Track analytics to understand workflow performance, engagement, and revenue outcomes
• Monitor outreach performance and uncover opportunities for higher conversions

Azodha Platform accelerates innovation in care delivery through a modular, AI-infused, interoperable digital enablement platform. It enhances patient experience and streamlines provider efficiency. Below is a detailed exploration of each core solution:

1. Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM):

Azodha's RPM provides real-time monitoring with AI-driven insights and seamless EHR integration. This device-agnostic platform supports remote patient monitoring devices and wearables, enabling continuous monitoring and proactive alerts for timely interventions.

2. Virtual Visit & Wait Room :

Azodha streamlines telehealth appointments with a user-friendly platform, integrated scheduling, tele and patient onboarding capabilities. The platform optimizes waitroom to drive patient centric and optimized provider experience. 

3. Patient and Provider facing Scheduling:

Comprehensive EHR integrated or stand alone scheduling for patients, provider operations and hospitals for home care, virtual and physical office scheduling

4. Digital Patient Engagement:

Azodha platform integrates and digitized patient care journey navigation across enrollment, onboarding, scheduling, health goals, surveys, chat, education and more via patient apps and portals.

5. Conversational AI:

Azodha uses Gen AI to enhance patient engagement through personalized care plans, AI assist for various patient interactions including scheduling, Q&A with voice interaction capabilities.

6. Dispatch and Logistics:

Azodha platform enables dispatch and logistic insights for home based scheduling and operations

Through seamless integration with existing systems and AI driven digital components, Azodha ensures that healthcare providers can deliver superior patient experience while optimizing operational workflows and administrative costs.