Implementation guide · AI Answering & Agents
A prospective or existing patient contacts the practice while the front desk is helping people in the clinic. The administrative path must identify the reason for contact, preserve privacy, offer an approved next step, and send clinical questions to the dental team. This guide isolates how custom ai agents should behave at that moment rather than treating the entire operation as one automation project. Perform one business-specific job through approved tools and records, with least-privilege access, evaluation cases, and a human owner for exceptions. For this dental practice, the job must use the practice or firm's approved language, records, ownership, and professional boundaries.
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Perform one business-specific job through approved tools and records, with least-privilege access, evaluation cases, and a human owner for exceptions. For this dental practice, the job must use the practice or firm's approved language, records, ownership, and professional boundaries. 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.
Run one de-identified or synthetic patient-access inquiry through the configured path and verify that the agent completes representative normal cases, refuses prohibited cases, recovers from tool failure, records its actions, and alerts the owner. Record the expected state, actual state, exception owner, and corrective action before release. 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 tool access is broader than the job, evaluation cannot determine success, or consequential actions lack human approval and recovery. Preserve the record and route the case to the named human owner.
Review one recent patient-access record from first contact through appointment, staff escalation, or documented closure. For Custom AI Agent, also inspect evaluation results, tool-call logs, permission denials, failures, owner approvals, saved outputs, and version history. This is an implementation control, not a performance claim. Validate it with the business's own recent records, approved policies, synthetic or de-identified test cases, and named human reviewers before release.
Implementation control sheet
Perform one business-specific job through approved tools and records, with least-privilege access, evaluation cases, and a human owner for exceptions. For this dental practice, the job must use the practice or firm's approved language, records, ownership, and professional boundaries.
| Control | Release requirement |
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| Required operating inputs |
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| Release acceptance test | Run one de-identified or synthetic patient-access inquiry through the configured path and verify that the agent completes representative normal cases, refuses prohibited cases, recovers from tool failure, records its actions, and alerts the owner. Record the expected state, actual state, exception owner, and corrective action before release. |
| 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 tool access is broader than the job, evaluation cannot determine success, or consequential actions lack human approval and recovery. Preserve the record and route the case to the named human owner. |
| 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. |
Approved service, location, scheduling, privacy, and escalation rules The practice-management record and staff owner for each booking exception Job specification, allowed tools, data scope, permissions, prohibited actions, and completion record Evaluation cases, reviewer, escalation, observability, incident response, versioning, and disable control
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.
Run one de-identified or synthetic patient-access inquiry through the configured path and verify that the agent completes representative normal cases, refuses prohibited cases, recovers from tool failure, records its actions, and alerts the owner. Record the expected state, actual state, exception owner, and corrective action before release. This is an implementation control, not a performance claim. Validate it with the business's own recent records, approved policies, synthetic or de-identified test cases, and named human reviewers before release.