| Required operating inputs | - Approved service, location, scheduling, privacy, and escalation rules
- The practice-management record and staff owner for each booking exception
- Approved knowledge, tone, identity disclosure, channel, privacy, and prohibited-topic rules
- Conversation states, handoff triggers, availability, follow-up permissions, and transcript retention boundary
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| Release acceptance test | Run one de-identified or synthetic patient-access inquiry through the configured path and verify that the test conversation answers within approved knowledge, asks only necessary questions, preserves context, and escalates sensitive or uncertain requests cleanly. Record the expected state, actual state, exception owner, and corrective action before release. |
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| Stop condition | Do not release or continue the automated path when a clinical, urgent, privacy-sensitive, or insurance-specific question cannot be handled by the approved administrative path, or when the answer is outside approved knowledge, sensitive context is unnecessary, or the next human and response expectation are unclear. Preserve the record and route the case to the named human owner. |
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| Human boundary | The dental team retains diagnosis, treatment recommendations, clinical urgency, patient eligibility, insurance interpretation, and every care decision. The configured system may support only approved administrative response, intake, scheduling, routing, and follow-up. |
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