Patient Intake Automation for Medical Practices

Patient intake automation helps practices collect administrative information, identify missing forms, and route referral or registration exceptions before an appointment. Sarva supports front-office readiness while staff handle identity, consent, clinical content, and exceptions.

Designed for: Medical, behavioral health, orthopedic, physical therapy, and specialty practices with recurring intake worklists.

These workflows are often distributed across inboxes, portals, worklists, and spreadsheets. The practical opportunity is to make ownership and exceptions visible without removing qualified staff from decisions.

• Patients arrive with incomplete forms or registration details.
• Referral requirements are not visible until late in the process.
• Front-office staff manually chase missing information.
• Different locations use inconsistent intake checklists.

• Send approved reminders and intake instructions.
• Check required administrative fields and missing attachments.
• Route referral and authorization readiness exceptions.
• Create a staff-ready appointment worklist.

1. 01Map required fields by appointment type.
2. 02Define identity, consent, referral, and escalation rules.
3. 03Pilot one appointment category and location.
4. 04Measure form completeness, staff chase time, and day-of exceptions.

The review should confirm the form platform, PM/EHR, patient portal, identity checks, messaging channels, and approved data-transfer options. Sarva does not assume a specific form or PM integration.

Staff review identity mismatches, consent, clinical information, urgent concerns, referral validity, and any exception that could affect access or care. Automation does not approve clinical readiness.

Use these as evaluation criteria against a documented baseline. They are not promised outcomes.

• Completed intake before appointment
• Missing-field rate
• Staff follow-up time
• Referral readiness
• Day-of registration exceptions

• Required form list
• Appointment type
• Referral requirements
• Reminder rules
• Exception ownership

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