See how Commure’s Agentic AI is reducing burnout, cutting costs, and improving care, with real-world examples and insights from AWS and Commure experts.
Artificial intelligence in healthcare is rapidly evolving beyond basic automation tasks like scheduling reminders or sending notifications. In a recent webinar, "Beyond Automation: How Agentic AI is Redefining Healthcare Workflows," Bryan Nairn, VP of Marketing at Commure led a discussion with Ujjwal Ratan, Leader, ML and Data Science, Healthcare and Life Sciences at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Prachi Shah, Head of Product at Commure, exploring how proactive, adaptive, and dynamic AI agents—known as Agentic AI—are fundamentally transforming clinical and administrative processes. Watch the full on-demand webinar here.
What is Agentic AI?
Agentic AI represents the next stage in the evolution of artificial intelligence, moving past traditional automation by proactively orchestrating tasks and dynamically adapting to real-time conditions.
According to Ujjwal Ratan from AWS, “Agents is a concept that actually has three different components combined with a large language model...First is the data. We are not reliant on the large language model’s fundamental training dataset—we're actually reliant on more of the external datasets that are provided to the large language model at runtime...Second is memory. Memory is a very important concept in agents because it allows you to retain conversational elements in whatever the agent is trying to do. It also remembers context, which is extremely important...And finally, there are tools. Tools are what the large language model uses to access external information. It basically has a dictionary of tools that it can go fetch information from.”
Ujjwal further distinguished workflows managed by Agentic AI as deterministic (structured, predictable processes) and non-deterministic (requiring flexible, adaptive reasoning), noting agents are particularly beneficial in the latter scenario due to their inherent adaptability.
Together, these components make Agentic AI uniquely suited to power more intuitive, responsive, and high-impact healthcare workflows that mirror the complexities and pace of real-world clinical and administrative environments.
Key Benefits of Agentic AI in Healthcare
One of the main advantages highlighted in the webinar is the significant reduction of cognitive load on healthcare workers. Agents automate routine and repetitive tasks, freeing clinicians and administrative staff to focus on more human, patient-facing responsibilities. Commure’s Head of Product, Prachi Shah, highlighted this saying, “If a human can do it and it's relatively repeatable, an agent can likely do it as well.”
Another major benefit is improved patient experiences. By employing agents for patient interactions, such as scheduling, follow-ups, and reminders, healthcare providers ensure consistency and reliability, enhancing patient satisfaction.
Cost reduction is also a key outcome of adopting Agentic AI. Prachi emphasized, "These agents are essentially doing these repetitive or complex tasks that humans are doing, but at one one-hundredth of the cost and effort that's required to get that done."
Another factor driving these benefits is that Commure’s agents are not standalone tools. As Prachi explained, "Agents are fully embedded in your workflow. They are not standalone. They're fully embedded in the day-to-day workflows of your providers." This level of integration ensures that agents can work alongside staff seamlessly, driving measurable efficiency gains without disrupting existing systems or routines.
While this may seem like a mystical sci-fi movie, these benefits aren’t just theoretical—they’re already driving results across real-world healthcare environments.
Where Agents Are Already Making a Difference
Below are some real-world applications highlighted by Commure in the webinar to demonstrate the practicality and effectiveness of Agentic AI. Watch the on-demand webinar to see these agents in action for yourself.
- Voice-based scheduling agents streamline patient scheduling processes by dynamically integrating with EMRs. Prachi showcased a scenario where the agent seamlessly managed scheduling complexities and real-time insurance verification.
- Outbound agents for patient follow-ups proactively manage recovery check-ins, medication adherence, and other touchpoints along the care journey, promptly escalating concerns to human clinicians when necessary.
- Text-based patient intake agents automate pre-appointment preparations, gathering essential patient information through interactive texting workflows.
- Web-based agents autonomously navigate payer portals to obtain documents such as Explanation of Benefits (EOB) forms, significantly streamlining revenue cycle operations.
- Voice-based payer interaction agents reduce lengthy human wait times by autonomously managing phone calls with insurance providers, resolving issues quickly and efficiently.
- Denials co-pilot agents help resolve claim denials at scale by analyzing denial details, identifying the best course of action, and auto-generating appeals letters. Prachi explained how these agents allow health systems to resubmit over half of denied claims automatically, significantly improving revenue recovery.
Commure’s Approach to Innovative AI Agents
Agentic AI is a very powerful tool for health systems, but without proper implementation, it can be very difficult to realize the benefits and utilize it to its fullest potential. Bryan Nairn, VP of Marketing at Commure, highlighted the strategic advantage of Commure’s forward-deployed engineering model: "We embed engineers with customers to integrate our product into their existing workflows and to fine-tune those integrations."
This model enables Commure to deeply understand specific customer workflows by embedding engineers directly within provider organizations. As Bryan described, this allows engineers to "work in a customer's environment," collaborating closely with IT and operations teams to observe real-world processes, uncover latent needs, and apply first principles thinking to arrive at high-impact outcomes for customers.
This isn't just about feature requests or support tickets—it's about co-developing practical solutions that fit seamlessly into existing environments. For example, embedded engineers have helped fine-tune patient engagement workflows, leading to substantial reductions in no-shows and improved compliance adherance. The insights gained from these collaborations are then rolled into improvements that benefit all customers, creating a flywheel of continuous innovation grounded in real-world experience.
Ready to Transform Healthcare?
The transformative impact of Commure’s Agentic AI on healthcare workflows is clear and significant. By reducing burdens, enhancing patient interactions, and cutting costs dramatically, Commure is setting a new standard for healthcare innovation.
View the full on-demand webinar to see all of the real-world applications in action and hear more technical details from AWS on what the future of Agentic AI will look like.