FAQ

Straight answers to fair questions

Clinical and compliance teams deserve precise language. Here is what Vitality Call is, what it is not, and where every boundary sits.

What Vitality Call is

What exactly is Vitality Call?

Vitality Call is an AI care manager for patient panels. Sarah, our conversational AI, calls each enrolled patient daily, completes a structured check-in through a natural conversation, and delivers a summary to the staff your organization designates. Missed calls and concerning patient-reported responses are escalated according to protocols your team configures.

Is Sarah a real person? Do patients know she's an AI?

Sarah is a conversational AI, and patients are always told so, starting with enrollment and the first call. Transparency isn't just an ethical requirement; it's why engagement holds up. Patients keep answering because the call is pleasant, consistent, and honest about what it is.

What does Sarah actually ask patients?

Daily check-ins cover medication status, sleep, meals, mood, patient-reported symptoms, and upcoming appointments, configurable per patient or panel. Check-in questions are drawn from established, validated screening tools that clinicians have used for years, asked consistently every day inside a natural conversation. The validated sources give the questions rigor. The daily cadence is what makes trends visible.

What do patients need to participate?

A phone. Landline or cell, either works. There are no apps to install, no devices to distribute or charge, and nothing for patients to learn. That's deliberate: the populations that most need daily contact are the least likely to adopt new technology.

What Vitality Call is not

Is Vitality Call a medical device? Does it diagnose or detect conditions?

No. Vitality Call is a patient engagement and check-in service, not a medical device, and it does not diagnose, detect, or predict any disease or condition. Sarah collects what patients report and routes it to your team. Interpretation is entirely the work of licensed professionals.

Does it replace care managers, nurses, or physicians?

No. It replaces the part of their day no one can staff: calling every patient, every day, and writing down what they say. Your clinical staff spend their time where the summaries say it's needed. Every clinical decision, from interpreting a flag to changing a care plan, stays with your team.

What happens in an emergency? Can Sarah call 911 or triage?

Vitality Call is not an emergency response service, cannot dispatch help, and does not triage. If a patient reports something urgent, Sarah's guidance to the patient is always the same: hang up and call 911. The event is simultaneously escalated to the contacts your protocol designates.

For patients who need guaranteed emergency dispatch, a dedicated medical alert device is the right tool, and Vitality Call operates well alongside one.

Does Sarah give patients medical advice?

No. Sarah can remind a patient of an appointment, encourage them to bring a question to their clinician, or suggest they contact their care team, but she does not advise on symptoms, medications, or treatment. When patients ask medical questions, and they do, she redirects them to your team.

Escalation and workflow

What happens when a patient doesn't answer?

Sarah retries on the schedule you configure. Continued non-response escalates to whoever you designate: a care coordinator, an on-file caregiver, or a family contact. Your team decides the ladder; Sarah climbs it.

What counts as a flag?

Defaults include patient-reported events like falls, new or severe pain, missed medications, not eating, confusion, and expressions of hopelessness, and your organization can tune what gets flagged and how it routes. Flags are patient-reported information surfaced for review, not clinical determinations.

How do summaries reach our team? Do we need an integration?

No integration is required. Summaries and flags live in the Vitality Call dashboard, and designated staff receive notifications per your protocols. Your team can be reviewing summaries on day one with nothing more than a login.

For organizations that want patient-reported data flowing into their own systems, API access is available. We'll walk through both paths during a demo.

How does enrollment and patient consent work?

Your organization enrolls patients with their knowledge and consent. Patients are told who Sarah is, who receives their information, and that they can pause or stop at any time. In our experience, consented patients are engaged patients, and engagement is the entire value of the service.

Data and practical details

How is patient information handled and secured?

Call content is processed to produce summaries and maintain conversation continuity, and access is limited to the contacts your organization designates. We do not sell patient information, ever. We'll walk your compliance team through our full security and data handling practices, including agreements appropriate to your organization, during evaluation.

Do you have outcomes data?

Not yet, and we won't pretend otherwise. Vitality Call is a young product building its evidence base with early partner organizations. What we can demonstrate today is the mechanism: daily engagement, consistent patient-reported data, and reliable escalation. Partners who join now help shape and share in that evidence.

How is it priced?

Pricing depends on panel size and configuration. Request a demo and we'll walk through current partnership terms.

The most important answer on this page: Vitality Call never stands between a patient and emergency care. Patients experiencing a medical emergency are always directed to call 911, and your escalation contacts are notified in parallel.

Bring us your hard questions

Ask anything during a demo, compliance questions included. If Vitality Call isn't the right fit for your organization, we'll say so.

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