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Enterprise hospitals

A hospital switchboard
is a routing problem.

Most calls into a hospital are not clinical. They are appointments, results enquiries, visiting questions and directions, sitting in the same queue as the ones that are.

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4 specialistsIllustrative journeyScope confirmed in discovery
Enterprise hospitals · what changesIllustrative
Routine enquiriesHandled
Clinical callsReach staff sooner
Transfers with contextStandard
Records updatedIn scope systems

Illustrative figures. Nothing here is a measured outcome or a performance claim.

Your clinic, in view

Less chasing.
More clarity.

One workspace for enquiries, appointments and follow-ups, with every number reconciling across every view. Open a record to see what was actually decided.

Workspace OverviewDemo data

Thursday · sample day

A clearer day at the front desk.

Enquiries34Across configured channels
Appointments21Confirmed in sample data
Follow-ups9Scheduled in sample data
Open handoffs22 resolved · 4 total
Enquiries & appointmentsSample day, by hour
08:00: 4 enquiries, 2 appointments. 10:00: 8 enquiries, 5 appointments. 12:00: 7 enquiries, 4 appointments. 14:00: 6 enquiries, 4 appointments. 16:00: 9 enquiries, 6 appointments
62%to appointment
Enquiry → appointment21 of 34 sample enquiries. Illustrative, not a performance claim.
A few journeys in motionSample records

Example data only. Production channels, systems and permissions are configured for each deployment.

Who this is for

Where the capacity actually goes.

Single-site hospitals coordinating outpatient appointments, patient services and general enquiries across many departments.

Non-clinical volume blocks clinical calls.

Directions, visiting hours and appointment changes occupy the same line as callers who need a person now.

Transfers lose the caller.

Every hop between departments is a point where the call can drop and the patient starts again.

Departments keep separate rules.

Outpatients, radiology and admissions each work differently, so a single script cannot serve them.

A hospital outpatient floor at blue hour, the waiting zones empty and the reception desk lit.
Most of what reaches this desk is not clinical. It queues with the part that is.

The journey, step by step

One request.
Four moves.

An illustrative enterprise hospitals journey. Your configuration decides the real sequence, the rules and the point a person takes over.

Answer on first contact

Every caller reaches something immediately instead of a queue, on phone or on your supported digital channels.

Separate routine from clinical

Approved routine questions are handled; anything matching your clinical or urgency rules goes straight to staff.

Route with the context attached

When a transfer is needed, what the caller already said travels with them.

Update the record

Appointment changes and confirmations are written back to the systems in scope.

In focus · Dubai healthcare

A growing city. A closer look at your front desk.

Dubai licensed about 5,800 healthcare facilities in 2025, up from 5,340 in 2024. More clinics and more demand mean more first contacts arriving outside the moments your team is free to answer them.

Healthcare facilities≈5,800

Across the emirate in 2025, from 5,340 in 2024

General medical clinics126

A named category, not every clinic location

Specialised clinics68

Listed separately from general clinics

The specialists this draws on

Four roles, working in sequence.

All eight specialists are included in every plan. These are the ones Stella typically activates first for enterprise hospitals.

Where your people take over

Triage, clinical advice, results and anything touching a patient record goes to authorised staff only. Nothing clinical is answered by a configured workflow.

The human boundary

Common questions

Questions enterprise hospitals ask.

Would this replace our switchboard team?

No. It absorbs the routine volume so the team spends its time on the calls that need a person. Staffing decisions are yours.

Can it access patient records?

Only the systems and fields you explicitly connect and permit during scoping. Access is configured, not assumed, and results are never handled by a workflow.

Your next chapter

Build this around your enterprise hospital.

Start with the enquiries you are missing today and map the workflow around them.

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