How Solium AI Works with Practice Better

No two practices run exactly the same way, so we don’t believe your AI receptionist should either. Every Solium AI solution is custom-built around your clinic’s workflows, appointment processes, services, policies and communication style. We take the time to understand how your team uses Practice Better, then configure the AI receptionist to fit around that.

The result is a Practice Better AI receptionist that feels far more like part of your practice and far less like a generic chatbot bolted onto your phone system. Whether your priority is reducing missed calls, improving after-hours availability or simply giving your reception team more breathing room, the setup can be tailored around what matters most to your clinic.

Booking appointments is essential, but repeating the same booking process dozens of times a day isn’t always the best use of your team’s time. Through Practice Better’s API, Solium AI can build appointment workflows directly around your Practice Better setup, including creating, retrieving, updating and managing bookings.

When a patient calls, the AI receptionist can guide them through the relevant booking process based on the rules you’ve set for your practice. That means fewer routine scheduling calls landing on your reception desk and a smoother experience for patients who simply want to book, move or cancel an appointment.

Practice Better supports telehealth and virtual consultations, and Solium AI can help clients navigate those options. When a patient contacts your practice, the AI receptionist can assist with scheduling telehealth appointments, providing relevant information about how virtual consultations work and answering common questions about your online services.

This is particularly valuable for practices that offer a mix of in-person and virtual care, where patients may not know which option to choose. The AI receptionist can help direct them to the right appointment type based on your configured workflows, reducing confusion and making it easier for clients to access the care they need.

Patients don’t always call at convenient times. Solium AI is available 24/7, giving patients a way to interact with your practice even when your reception desk is closed, busy or tied up with clients in front of them. The Practice Better AI receptionist can handle configured appointment tasks and common enquiries outside normal business hours, helping your clinic stay accessible without asking your staff to be permanently attached to the phone.

For patients, that means fewer dead ends; for your team, it means fewer missed opportunities sitting in the voicemail inbox the next morning.

“What time do you close?”, “Do you offer this service?”, “How much does it cost?” and “Can I change my appointment?” are all important questions, but answering the same ones over and over can quickly eat into your reception team’s day.

During onboarding, we configure Solium AI with information about your clinic so it can respond to routine enquiries in a natural, conversational way. That can include information about services, appointment processes, fees, opening hours, locations and other practice-specific details. Your patients get answers sooner, while your staff can focus on the conversations where a human genuinely adds more value. And because each Solium AI receptionist is customised, the responses can also reflect your own terminology, tone and way of doing things rather than sounding like a generic automated script.

It goes without saying that when healthcare data is involved, access should be deliberate, controlled and limited to what’s actually needed. Practice Better provides API access that allows practices to control what connected applications can do, and we design every integration around the principle of least privilege.

Solium AI takes a security-first approach. We focus on building only the access required for the workflows being automated, while keeping patient privacy and healthcare expectations front and centre. Patient data is handled securely and in line with applicable privacy requirements, so you can introduce automation while continuing to treat client privacy as a priority.

The goal isn’t to remove the human side of your practice; it’s to stop your team spending valuable time on work that doesn’t always need a human. Solium AI can handle repetitive, high-volume interactions like routine appointment requests and common patient questions, while your reception staff remain available for more complex conversations, sensitive situations and patients who need personal assistance.

That creates a better division of labour: the AI handles the repetitive jobs, while your team can spend more time doing the work where human judgement and empathy matter most.

The whole point of introducing automation is to make life easier. Our onboarding process starts with understanding how your clinic currently works: how you use Practice Better, what patients tend to call about, where your team loses the most time and what you’d actually like the AI receptionist to take off your plate.

From there, we configure and test the workflows before launch. Because every Practice Better AI receptionist is custom-built, setup time can vary depending on the complexity of your clinic and the level of automation involved. Once you’re live, we don’t simply disappear. Solium AI provides ongoing support and optimisation so the receptionist can continue evolving with your practice.