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/ Health & clinics

AI & automation for medical, dental, and allied health clinics

In a clinic, the clinical work is not the bottleneck. The admin around it is: phone-only bookings and the no-shows they cause, recalls tracked in someone's head, patient details re-keyed into the practice-management system, ACC claims and reconciliation done by hand at the end of a long day. When the practice manager is away, the wheels wobble, because the process lives with them, not in a system.

The difference is how deep the integration goes. We build against the systems a practice already runs: Medtech, Indici, or Gensolve for medical and allied health, Dentally or EXACT for dental, wired into Xero and your booking and reminder tools. Online booking syncs, reminders and recalls run on rules you set, intake lands straight in the patient record, and takings reconcile into Xero with only the exceptions flagged.

We are careful about the line that matters. Automation here is admin and operations only. It never makes a clinical decision, never triages, and never diagnoses; the practitioner stays fully responsible for care. Patient information is treated accordingly: identifiable data is never fed into a generic AI tool, access is scoped and agreed in writing, and everything is built to sit inside your obligations under the Health Information Privacy Code.

/ What's included

Booking and recall automation

Online booking synced to Medtech, Gensolve, or Dentally, with automated confirmations and reminders to reduce no-shows, and recall lists (hygiene, chronic care, reviews) turned into scheduled outreach instead of a manual chase.

Intake and claims admin

Digital intake routed straight into the patient record, and ACC or insurance claim data checked and tracked through your practice-management system. Status tracking and data checks only, never claim adjudication or clinical judgment.

Reconciliation and reporting

Practice-management takings reconciled into Xero with exceptions flagged for a person, plus a simple weekly view for the owner or practice manager: did-not-attends, recall completion, billings. The numbers that usually never get pulled together.

Measurement

Every automation tied to hours back or errors removed, agreed before we build. You know what it is worth before it exists.

/ Engagements & pricing

Discovery

$3,000 NZD fixed

Small, tightly scoped. Produces a prioritised map of where automation pays across the practice and what it would cost to build. A decision document, not a presentation.

Automation sprint

$5,000 to $25,000 NZD

One bounded problem, fixed price, working software at the end. Scope is locked before the build starts so there are no surprises on the invoice.

Baseline retainer

$4,000 to $8,000 NZD / month

A steady cadence through the backlog, re-prioritised against results each month. Suited to practices with a long list of manual processes to work through systematically.

Frequently asked questions

Is it safe to automate patient communication under NZ privacy law?
Yes, when it is built correctly. Reminders and recalls run on the patient data already inside your practice-management system, not a third-party AI tool, and identifiable patient information is never fed into a generic model. Access is scoped and data handling is agreed in writing, built to sit inside your obligations under the Health Information Privacy Code.
Will AI make clinical decisions or replace my practitioners?
No. What we build is admin and operations only. It never triages, diagnoses, or decides care, and the practitioner stays fully responsible. It removes the admin around the clinical work, not the clinical work itself, and not the people who do it.
Do you work with Medtech, Gensolve, and Dentally?
Yes. We integrate against the practice-management system you already run, whether that is Medtech, Indici, MyPractice, Gensolve, Cliniko, Dentally, or EXACT, wired into its own booking and reminder modules and the Xero rails behind them. If a system has an API, we can almost certainly connect it.
Can you help reduce no-shows and automate recalls?
Yes. We wire confirmations and reminders to your booking system, and turn recall rules for hygiene, chronic care, and reviews into scheduled outreach so the list gets worked instead of forgotten. We measure the effect on your actual bookings rather than promise a number.
What does this cost?
A scoped discovery is fixed at $3,000 NZD. A bounded automation sprint runs $5,000 to $25,000 NZD depending on complexity. Monthly retainers sit between $4,000 and $8,000 NZD. Every engagement is quoted before any build begins.

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