Resources

Data, playbooks and scripts for running a healthcare front desk, drawn from the calls, texts and bookings that run through KloudMD.

Front Desk & Phones

How to Set Up an After-Hours Call Flow for a Medical Office

After hours, 55% of calls go unanswered and weekends hit 56%. Here is the four-bucket after-hours protocol, what the caller hears at each step, and how…

Sep 26, 2026 · 7 min read
Payments & Billing

Deposits at Booking: How to Cut Late Cancellations Without Scaring Off New Patients

Cancellation data from about 160,000 online bookings shows where deposits belong: long-lead consults and procedures, not same-day visits. Tiers, wording, and how to collect at booking.

Sep 26, 2026 · 7 min read
Intake & Forms

Online Intake Forms That Sync to Your EHR: The DOB and Patient-Matching Rules

An intake form only syncs if the EHR can resolve the patient. ModMed and Athena require a real DOB to create a chart, and shared phones…

Sep 26, 2026 · 7 min read
Reviews & Reputation

How to Ask Patients for Google Reviews by Text: Timing and Wording

The ask should fire when the visit is marked complete, not when staff remember. Timing, exact wording, Google's gating rules, and frequency caps for repeat-visit patients.

Sep 26, 2026 · 7 min read
Scheduling & No-Shows

Appointment Reminder Texts: Cadence, Wording, and the No-Show Rate to Expect

Reminded appointments no-show at 2.1% to 2.9% regardless of lead time; cancellations are the variable. Here is the cadence and wording that gets cancellations early enough…

Sep 26, 2026 · 7 min read
Patient Texting

Two-Way Patient Texting and HIPAA: What Is Allowed and What Is Not

Every guide says BAA, encryption, consent. This covers the operating layer: which texts carry PHI, what the inbox must record, what an AI reply may say,…

Sep 26, 2026 · 7 min read
Scheduling & No-Shows

Online Booking With SimplePractice Across Multiple Offices: The Provider-to-Office Problem

SimplePractice stores the office only on appointments, never on the clinician. Multi-office online booking needs an inferred, practice-confirmed clinician-to-office map.

Sep 26, 2026 · 7 min read
Scheduling & No-Shows

How to Offer Online Booking When Your Practice Software Has No API

On-premise Dentrix and ChiroTouch can support real online booking through an in-office connector. The two things vendors skip: no provider hours to read, and per-office ids.

Sep 26, 2026 · 7 min read
AI Receptionist

Can an AI Receptionist Reschedule and Cancel Appointments? Why That Is the Hard Part

Creating an appointment is easy. Moving the same appointment record in the EHR is where integrations fail silently. A three-step test exposes it before a patient…

Sep 26, 2026 · 7 min read
AI Receptionist

What an AI Receptionist Actually Does on a Patient Call, Step by Step

Vendors list capabilities. This walks one patient call end to end and shows what the agent must read and write in your EHR at each step,…

Sep 26, 2026 · 8 min read