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Connect appointment administration, waitlists and referral records

Coordinate non-clinical work so practice staff have the information needed to arrange care. Clinical urgency, diagnosis and treatment decisions stay with qualified clinicians.

For Practice manager, clinic owner or patient services lead

Explore three real work situations ↓
How it could work

Start with a situation you recognise.

Illustrative designs to scope with your team. Select a scenario, then follow the normal path and the exception.

A patient asks about booking requirements

Finished result

An answered administrative question or an appropriately handed-over request.

  1. 01Read approved practice information
  2. 02Identify administrative request
  3. 03Collect permitted booking details
  4. 04Route the next step
When something does not fit

The enquiry includes urgent symptoms or requests treatment advice.

What happens next

Use the practice-defined clinical escalation message and route, without continuing routine advice.

Inputs, checks and measurement
What starts the workflow
An enquiry asks about opening hours, referral paperwork and appointment options.
Before taking action
Avoid interpreting symptoms or implying that a particular appointment is clinically suitable.
Measure the change
Administrative handling time and unresolved booking enquiries.

A clinician-approved slot becomes available

Finished result

A valid replacement booking or a clearly tracked unfilled appointment.

  1. 01Read slot requirements
  2. 02Check approved waitlist eligibility
  3. 03Offer to permitted contact
  4. 04Recheck and confirm booking
When something does not fit

A patient accepts but their required referral or appointment type does not match.

What happens next

Hold confirmation and send the mismatch to booking staff.

Inputs, checks and measurement
What starts the workflow
A cancellation releases an appointment of a specific type and duration.
Before taking action
Use clinician, duration and practice-defined suitability constraints.
Measure the change
Coordination time and eligible cancelled appointments filled.

A referral arrives without required administrative details

Finished result

An organised referral pack whose administrative gaps are visible.

  1. 01Register referral receipt
  2. 02Check required fields and files
  3. 03Request specific missing information
  4. 04Prepare clinician review queue
When something does not fit

Two attachments identify different patients or an essential page is missing.

What happens next

Hold the record for staff verification rather than merging uncertain identities.

Inputs, checks and measurement
What starts the workflow
The practice receives a referral attachment through an approved channel.
Before taking action
Preserve the original referral and restrict access to the appropriate team.
Measure the change
Chase time and referrals delayed by incomplete records.
Fit before features

When custom work makes sense.

Use existing practice software for standard reminders and bookings. Custom workflows suit administrative handoffs and completeness checks that the existing system cannot coordinate.

Connect the records you already use

  • Practice-management and appointment systems
  • Approved administrative information
  • Referral documents and consent records

Access, data quality and write permissions are checked during scoping. Integration availability depends on your systems.

Go deeper

The systems behind these scenarios.

Controls, responsibility and recovery

Agree who can change rules, approve exceptions and authorise each write. Keep a history of source records, rule versions and action results. Detect partial failures, reconcile before retrying and assign unresolved cases to a named owner.

AI can extract, classify and prepare information. Validated rules and agreed permissions govern consequential actions; missing evidence triggers review. Test normal cases, exceptions and recovery against acceptance criteria before launch.

Related operating experience

See the foundations running at G3.

G3 is our founder’s retail and venue business in Melbourne. Explore relevant capabilities and their boundaries; your industry’s rules still need their own design and validation.

Questions worth asking first.

Start with a sanitised example, the result you need and one awkward case. We will map a bounded first implementation.

Is this clinical triage or medical advice?

No. The proposed scope is administrative. Requests requiring assessment use the practice’s approved escalation process and do not receive an automated clinical judgement.

Can a waitlist offer go to any available patient?

No. Staff-defined appointment suitability, clinician availability, consent and booking requirements must be checked before an offer is made or accepted.

Can an administrative workflow use less data than the full patient record?

Define the exact task and the minimum fields it needs, such as appointment type, contact preference and whether required paperwork is present. Check practice-system permissions, storage and approved handling before connection. Clinical notes should not be copied into a routine booking or document-chasing flow merely because they are available.

What if a referral appears to match two patients?

Use the practice’s approved identity checks and keep the original referral intact. Uncertain identifiers, conflicting attachments or missing pages go to the designated staff member before the document is linked or appointment status changes. Start the pilot with redacted examples of these mismatches rather than assuming name similarity is enough.

Do we need an ongoing Canvo subscription?

No mandatory Canvo subscription. An agreed implementation includes 12 months of support for the delivered workflows, defects and minor compatibility changes to existing integrations. Optional proactive care and further development are scoped separately. Software, hosting and API costs remain separate.

Your operation, your rules

Bring the handoff that keeps going wrong.

Free workflow review. A$950 ex GST diagnostic. A bounded first deployment from A$4,900 ex GST, with 12 months of included support for the agreed implementation.

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