
Specialty EHR Giant Ditches Proprietary AI for Dual-Vendor Marketplace in Front-Office Automation Bet
Nextech's strategic pivot to embedded third-party AI platforms signals a fundamental shift in how healthcare IT vendors approach conversational automation—and what specialty practices can expect from their EHR investments.

Ophthalmology Practices Turn to Specialized AI Agents to Tackle Scheduling Complexity General Chatbots Can't Handle
Assort Health and Nextech partner to automate the intricate patient access workflows unique to eye care, with early adopters reporting 60% call time savings and 97% resolution rates.

AI Agents Now Handle 95% of Patient Calls for Over 1,300 Primary Care Doctors—Without Human Handoff
Assort Health's platform, trained on 250 million patient interactions, is generating up to $4.3 million in incremental revenue per 100 providers while slashing hold times by 75%.

National Dermatology Network Deploys AI to Combat 36-Day Patient Wait Times
Parakeet Health's conversational AI will automate scheduling and cancellation recovery across nearly 160 dermatology practices in 17 states as specialty care access crisis deepens.

From Referral Chaos to Revenue: How One AI Agent Is Closing the $1.2 Billion Gap in Specialty Care Access
Assort Health's autonomous AI agent achieves 90% automation and 77% conversion rates by rewriting the playbook on specialty referrals—and it's already redefining what \"patient access\" means.