Capacity recovery

Turn a cancelled doctor slot into a fair, auditable backfill workflow.

Help hospital teams identify eligible patients, contact them in an approved order, hold a slot, and confirm a replacement appointment.

Assess this workflowFor Scheduling and department operations

What the approved workflow needs to do.

Receive a cancellation or newly available slot event
Filter the waitlist by hospital-approved eligibility criteria
Contact patients in a documented priority order
Apply a fixed response and slot-hold window
Confirm the replacement and notify the scheduling system
Release the hold and continue safely when a patient declines or times out
Operating model

A closed loop, not another callback list.

  1. 01

    Open the capacity event

    Confirm the provider, location, appointment type, slot duration, and earliest permitted contact time.

  2. 02

    Build the candidate queue

    Apply clinical and operational exclusions provided by the hospital; do not invent priority rules.

  3. 03

    Offer and confirm

    Present the slot, respect the hold window, confirm acceptance, and close all remaining offers when filled.

Guardrails

Boundaries are part of the product.

  • Hospital-owned fairness and priority policy
  • No autonomous clinical urgency ranking
  • One authoritative slot state to prevent double booking
  • Clear fallback when the system of record is unavailable
Pilot scorecard

Define every numerator and denominator before launch.

Cancelled slots eligible
Slots offered
Acceptance rate
Time to refill
Expired holds
Double-booking incidents
Questions

What buyers usually need clarified.

Can the system contact every person at once?

Only if the hospital has designed a fair concurrent-offer model and can prevent duplicate acceptance. Sequential or small-batch outreach is often easier to govern.

Who decides patient priority?

The hospital does. Ethon executes the approved rule set and records why each candidate was included or excluded.

What happens if two patients accept?

The workflow needs an atomic confirmation step, a clear hold policy, and a human exception path before launch.

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