AI agents for specialty healthcare practices

Front-office intelligence, built for specialty care.

Nurela helps specialty practices automate patient calls and front-office workflows with intelligent AI agents. Meet Ava, the patient access assistant that answers every call, captures what staff need, and keeps people in control.

Physician-signed screening HIPAA-first architecture Your staff approve every booking
How it works

Meet Ava, your AI-powered patient access assistant

Ava speaks naturally with patients. Your staff get organized, reviewable summaries.

1

Ava answers, every time

Day, night, weekends, and when all lines are busy. Ava identifies herself as the practice's virtual assistant and asks how she can help.

2

Urgency is screened first

Every reason for calling is checked against your signed red-flag criteria through two independent screening layers.

3

Structured intake

For routine requests, Ava collects exactly what your front desk needs — reason, name, date of birth, patient status — and answers approved common questions.

4

Your staff stay in charge

Every call lands on a secure dashboard as a clean summary. Urgent calls are prominently flagged for staff review. Staff approve every appointment.

Clinical safety, by design

Built for medicine, where a missed call can matter

Generic phone bots optimize for bookings. Ava is built around one rule: when in doubt, escalate to a human.

Physician-signed screening

The urgent-symptom criteria for your specialty aren't guessed by an AI — they're authored and signed off by a practicing physician, and reviewed with your clinic on a regular cadence.

Fail-safe to urgent

Two independent screening layers check every call. If anything is ambiguous — or any part of the system errs — the call is treated as urgent and routed toward your team. False alarms are acceptable; missed emergencies are not.

Humans make the decisions

Ava never diagnoses, never gives medical advice, and never books an appointment on her own. She performs administrative intake; your staff review urgent calls and approve every booking.

After-hours & overflow

Your front desk, off the clock

Most missed calls happen after 5 PM and during the mid-day rush. Ava covers both, answering every line in parallel so callers receive a consistent response.

  • 24/7 coverage, including holidays and weekends
  • Handles many simultaneous calls — no busy signal
  • Works alongside your existing phone system and number
Structured intake

Summaries your staff can act on in seconds

No transcribed voicemail rambles. Each call becomes a labeled, consistent summary — reason for calling, caller details, urgency status — ready for one-click scheduling by your team.

  • Consistent, labeled format for every call
  • Urgent, routine, and incomplete calls clearly flagged
  • Common questions answered from your clinic's own FAQ
Privacy & compliance

HIPAA-first, not HIPAA-eventually

Patient information is handled the way a covered entity would expect from day one — because in medicine, trust is the product.

  • Encrypted and hosted on HIPAA-eligible U.S. infrastructure.
  • Your patients' data is never used to train AI models — you own your data.
  • A signed Business Associate Agreement with your practice.
Compare

How Nurela compares

Against the alternatives a clinic actually considers.

Nurela + Ava Answering service Generic AI phone bot Hiring more staff
Physician-signed urgency screening Depends on training
Fail-safe escalation to a human Message-taking only
Specialty-specific intake Generic scripts
Staff approve every booking Often auto-books
HIPAA BAA + audit logging Varies Varies
24/7, every line answered at once Hold queues
Structured, reviewable call summaries Free-form messages Transcripts Sticky notes
FAQ

The questions a medical practice should ask

What if it misses something urgent?
This is the question we built the product around. Every call passes through two independent screening layers — a deterministic symptom check and an AI semantic check — against criteria authored and signed by a practicing physician in your specialty. The system is deliberately tuned to over-escalate: ambiguity and screening errors resolve to urgent, and the record is prominently flagged for staff review. We'd rather create a false alarm than let an urgent concern blend into the routine queue.
Does it give medical advice or triage patients?
No — by design. Ava performs administrative intake only. She never diagnoses, recommends treatment, or tells a patient how serious their condition is. Ava gathers information, screens for urgency, and hands the call record to your team. Callers describing a medical emergency are directed to 911, not advised by an AI.
Is it HIPAA compliant?
Nurela is designed to operate as a Business Associate and enter a Business Associate Agreement with each practice before handling real patient information. Patient data is not used to train AI models. Data is encrypted and hosted on HIPAA-eligible U.S. infrastructure.
Will it book appointments without us knowing?
Never. Ava captures the request; your staff decide. Every appointment is reviewed and confirmed by a person on your team from the Nurela dashboard. Auto-booking without human review is not part of the current workflow.
Do we have to change our phone number or phone system?
No. Ava works behind your existing number and alongside your current phone system — for example, as after-hours coverage or overflow when all lines are busy. Callers dial the number they already know.
What happens when a caller drops off mid-call?
Partial calls are saved and flagged as incomplete on your dashboard with whatever was captured. If urgent symptoms were disclosed before the caller disconnected, the partial record remains prominently marked urgent for staff review.
Which specialties do you support?
We launch specialty by specialty, starting with ophthalmology — because safe screening requires a physician-signed clinical protocol for each specialty, not a generic script. If you're in another specialty, talk to us: new specialties are onboarded with a physician in that field signing off on the screening criteria first.
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