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Luma Health's Agents Prepared Half of One Hospital's Colonoscopy Patients With No Staff Calls
Periop nurses saved 20-plus minutes per patient, and 95% of patients responded on average.
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Luma Health says its AI agents fully prepared half of the colonoscopy patients at Mile Bluff Medical Center with no staff phone calls.
Across Mile Bluff and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, perioperative nurses saved more than 20 minutes of coordination per patient, Luma said. The results come from Agent Launchpad, its new software for running several AI agents through a multistep workflow. Nurse time is the cost the launch targets, since procedure prep spans several teams and weeks and staff chase each step by phone. Luma did not say how it measured the 20 minutes.
What did the two hospitals see?
Across the two health systems, 95% of patients responded to the agents’ outreach, and 70% did so within the first day, Luma said. The 50% fully prepared with no staff calls is Mile Bluff’s result alone.
Luma did not say how many patients stand behind these results or what the other half of Mile Bluff’s patients needed from staff.
How does the prep run?
The agents work from each hospital’s own prep instructions and screening rules. They contact the patient 14 days, seven days, three days and one day before the procedure, switch to text when a patient asks, and try again after a missed call.
A question that needs clinical judgment goes to a nurse, with the whole conversation attached, and the nurse decides whether the workflow continues. The hospital sets which tasks the agents handle, and Luma says that leaves staff more time to assess concerns and answer clinical questions.
What does the first call cost a nurse?
Health systems Luma spoke to said nurses make 2.3 calls on average just to reach a patient for the first time, before any prep questions are answered. Luma did not tie that figure to the Mile Bluff or Arkansas results, but it shows where the calls start.
Colonoscopy prep is one of the ready-made workflows in the release, which also include knee replacement, cataract surgery and bariatric surgery prep.
Does a health system know how many calls a nurse makes per colonoscopy patient, and how it compares with 2.3?
