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Emitrr

Emitrr is a patient communication platform for independent practices that puts texting, phones, faxing, online forms, reviews and scheduling in one system, with AI agents that take calls and messages the front desk cannot. It now calls itself the AI receptionist for healthcare. Its healthcare customers are mostly smaller practices: physical therapy, primary care, pediatrics, urgent care, dental, veterinary, orthopedics, dermatology, ophthalmology and chiropractic, and it also sells the same platform to home services, education, hospitality and recruitment businesses.

The AI Answering Service picks up every inbound call, after hours included, learns why the patient is calling, captures their details and transfers urgent or complex calls to staff with a summary, so no one has to start over. A separate AI Voice Agent handles fuller conversations: booking, confirming and rescheduling appointments, and on athenahealth it verifies the caller against the chart, pulls the active medication list and takes the refill request for the practice to act on. An AI Rule Engine sorts incoming messages so staff see the ones that need them.

Emitrr connects to athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, DrChrono, SPRY PT, Dentrix, Curve Dental and other practice systems, keeping conversations and appointments in step with the record. It signs a business associate agreement with every healthcare account and runs on Amazon Web Services. Customer stories include Apex Rehab, OTC Dental and Josey Medical Clinic. No prices are listed, and buying starts with a 20 minute demo.

AI Health Index verifiedOctober 18, 2026
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Founded
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Headquarters
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Website
emitrr.com
Categories
healthcare-admin-automation, patient-facing-voice-agents
Indexed Products
AI Agent (AI Voice Agent), AI Answering Service, AI Rule Engine, HIPAA Compliant Texting, VoIP Phone System, Cloud Faxing, Online Appointment Scheduling, Medical Forms, Review Automation
Buyer Segments
Physical therapy and rehabilitation clinics, Primary care, pediatric and urgent care practices, Dental, orthodontic and veterinary practices, Specialty practices such as orthopedics, dermatology, ophthalmology and chiropractic
Assessment

Capability Axes

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AI Capability
BB on AI CentralityThe model is the engine of a core module. The platform carries other value, but this capability does not exist without it.
Vendor Published

AI agents run the call handling module, and the platform around them carries value of its own. The AI Answering Service answers every inbound call, works out the reason for it and captures the caller's details, and the AI Voice Agent goes further, booking, confirming and rescheduling appointments and taking refill requests against the chart. An AI Rule Engine sorts incoming messages so staff see the ones that need them.

Most of what a practice buys from Emitrr would work without models: two way texting, the phone system, cloud faxing, online forms, scheduling links, review requests and team messaging. Those tools are the reason the platform replaces several others, while the agents are the module that cannot exist without the models.

BB on Autonomy and Oversight ModelThe oversight structure is described and one part is missing, commonly the threshold at which the system stops or what happens after it is wrong.
Vendor Published

Calls the agents cannot finish go to people, with context attached. The answering service detects urgency or a request that needs a human and transfers the call to the right team member or department, and every handoff carries a summary of what was discussed. Calls it fully handles become structured records with the caller's name, reason and details for staff follow up, and refill requests taken against the athenahealth chart are passed to the practice rather than approved.

The missing part is the criterion. Nothing defines what the agent treats as urgent, what happens after hours when no one is available to take a transfer, or how a practice limits what the agent may say. Emitrr sells the service on answering every call, which makes the urgency rule the control that matters most.

DD on Model and Technology TransparencyNothing is published about what produces the output.
Vendor Published

Nothing identifies what produces the agents' speech or answers. The AI is described by what it does, answering in under a second, understanding the reason for a call, detecting urgency and speaking in a human like voice, with no language model, speech recognition engine or voice provider named and no architecture beyond that.

The difference between the two agent products is explained only by scope: the answering service makes sure calls are answered and captured, and the voice agent handles deeper conversation and routing. No versioning, update practice or release notes for either are offered, so a practice cannot tell when the agent's behavior has changed.

CC on Model Supply Chain DisclosureThe architecture is described and no model provider is named. Naming a hosting provider alone does not lift a record out of this band. Record the host in the note, because it matters for residency and breach scope, and grade on the model layer, which is the question this axis is named for.
Vendor Published

Amazon Web Services is the only party named, as the computing infrastructure behind the platform. The speech recognition, language model and voice providers behind the AI agents are not named, and no subprocessor list exists. An agent that answers in under a second in a human like voice almost certainly relies on outside speech and voice models, which makes the gap a practical one.

The business associate agreement signed with every healthcare account presumably extends to some downstream parties, but its terms are not available to read, so a practice cannot see which outside companies hear its patients' calls, whether they keep recordings or whether they may train on them.

CC on Clinical and Operational EvidenceNamed customers, or vendor reported percentages with no method, denominator or reference standard. Scale of use is recorded here and is not treated as evidence of benefit.
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Named customers report results with no method, period or baseline behind them. Customer stories credit Emitrr's AI with turning missed calls into $50,000 of revenue at Apex Rehab, saving Zynex 32 hours a month in manual message sorting with the rule engine, and cutting manual responses by 70 percent while lifting lead conversion 25 percent at OTC Dental. Josey Medical Clinic is named for higher website conversions.

Platform wide claims add that practices cut no shows by up to 90 percent and save up to two hours of front desk phone time a day. None of the figures says how many calls the agents handled correctly, how often they transferred or failed, or how the revenue was attributed to the agent rather than to texting and reminders.

CC on AI Safety and PHI StewardshipGeneral assurances of privacy and security that do not answer the questions artificial intelligence raises: what is retained, what reaches a model, and what happens to it there.
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Encryption in transit and at rest, regular vulnerability assessments and penetration tests, and security by design principles are the assurances on offer. Nothing addresses what the AI agents do with call audio and transcripts: how long they are kept, whether they reach an outside model provider, or whether they are used to train or tune models.

Emitrr's only stated retention rule covers test execution data on virtual machines and real devices, deleted after 60 days, which has no evident connection to a patient communications product and leaves real retention terms for calls, texts and faxes unstated. No safety engineering for the agents, such as limits on what they say about medications, is described.

Regulatory and Compliance
BB on HIPAA and BAA PostureBusiness associate status is stated and supported by a substantive privacy document, with the agreement or its scope not fully published. For a vendor outside the United States, an equivalent regime documented to this depth grades here. A vendor whose product does not process protected health information grades here too when it says so plainly and explains the scope, with a service privacy document behind it: stating a position a buyer can rely on is the posture this axis grades, and the band above is closed to it because there is no agreement to publish.
Vendor Published

Emitrr signs a business associate agreement with every healthcare account, which settles the tier question: the agreement comes with the account rather than a premium plan. The texting product is sold as HIPAA compliant, with encrypted messages, opt in and opt out management, a secure chat portal for sensitive exchanges and audit logs.

The agreement itself is not available to read before signing, so its terms, including whether it binds the subcontractors that handle patient data, such as the speech and language model providers behind the AI agents, cannot be checked in advance. The privacy policy is a general document for the website and service rather than a description of how patient information moves through the agents.

BB on Security Certifications and Trust CenterA recognized certification is named in the vendor own material without the artifact, or with a scope or renewal question the buyer has to raise. A recognized certification here is an audit of how the vendor operates security, such as SOC 2, HITRUST or ISO/IEC 27001. A certification has a scope and a clock, and both are part of this grade. A certification the vendor attaches to its data center, hosting facility or cloud provider, rather than presenting as its own, is the host's and does not count here.
Vendor Published

SOC 2 Type 2 is named only as one of the security and privacy practices and standards Emitrr integrates, with no report, date, auditor or route to request it. Policies are said to map to ISO 27001 access control objectives without a claim of certification.

Encryption in transit and at rest, regular vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, restricted removable media and security event monitoring are all described. The same security policy also carries passages, such as retention rules for test execution machines, that do not describe a communications product, which makes it harder for a buyer to know which controls apply to Emitrr's own service.

CC on FDA and Regulatory StatusNo device claim is made and the product is scoped accordingly. Most administrative and operational products sit here and are not penalized for it, because this axis grades the appropriateness of the positioning rather than possession of a clearance.
Vendor Published

Emitrr positions itself as communication and front desk software and claims no device status. The agents book appointments, answer common questions, capture call reasons and take refill requests, and the one clinical judgment they make is spotting urgency so a call goes to staff.

That routing comes with no intended purpose statement or stated limit, but nothing markets the agents as assessing symptoms, advising patients or deciding refills; the refill flow confirms identity, reads the active medication list and records which drug the patient wants, leaving the decision with the practice. The administrative positioning matches what the product does.

DD on AI Governance and Bias DisclosureNothing published on how model behavior is governed or tested. Multilingual operation with no subgroup performance sits here when the vendor markets recognition quality as a strength, because a caller the system failed to understand leaves no complaint and no record.
Vendor Published

Nothing describes how the AI agents or the rule engine are tested, monitored or governed. Emitrr sets out its information security policy at length, mapped to ISO 27001 access control objectives, and says nothing in it about model evaluation, bias, accuracy monitoring or who reviews changes to the agents.

For a voice agent sold on sounding human and answering every call, the questions a practice would want answered are how often it misunderstands callers, whether that varies with accent, age or language, and how its urgency detection was validated. None of that is addressed.

CC on AI Liability and RecourseMechanisms exist that let someone challenge an output, such as audit trails, source traceability or review before commit, with nothing standing behind the output and no route for the harmed party.
Vendor Published

Every call the agents handle becomes a structured record, and every handoff carries a summary, which gives a practice a trail to check what was said. Texting comes with audit logs as part of the compliance pitch.

No error rate, guarantee, service credit or remediation commitment covers what the agents tell patients or book on their behalf. The answering service is sold on never missing a patient call, after hours included, so an urgent call the agent fails to pass on is the failure a practice most needs an answer for, and nothing explains what happens then. The terms of service govern the relationship in general, with nothing specific to AI output.

Integration and Deployment
BB on EHR and Interoperability DepthNamed systems with read access or one directional writing, or standards support with named deployments behind it.
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Integrations are named for the practice systems Emitrr's buyers run: athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, DrChrono and SPRY PT on the medical and therapy side, Dentrix, Curve Dental and Orthotrac for dental and orthodontic offices, plus HubSpot. The athenahealth integration is the most detailed, with texts, calls, appointments and updates logged back into athenahealth, and the AI refill flow verifying a caller's date of birth and number against the chart and reading the active medication list.

No marketplace listing, production customer on a named integration or interface specification is offered, and how deep the other integrations go, whether they write appointments back or only read schedules for reminders, is not described for each system.

CC on Deployment Model and Data ResidencyA single hosted option with location implied rather than committed.
Vendor Published

Emitrr runs as a single hosted service on Amazon Web Services, and no region, data location or tenancy model is committed. The company describes itself as serving local businesses in the United States, which implies domestic hosting without stating it.

Emitrr describes blue green deployments that keep two identical production environments and switch traffic between them during updates, along with logging and monitoring for security events. Where call audio and transcripts are processed by the AI agents, and whether any of that processing happens outside the United States, is not stated.

Commercial
CC on Commercial TransparencyNo price is published and the posture is discoverable: a buyer can establish how the product is sold and what drives the cost before contacting the vendor. Most of the index sits here.
Vendor Published

No price, plan or unit of charge is listed, and the pricing address on the website returns no page. Every route leads to a 20 minute live demo, and a free trial call to the AI agent lets a practice hear it before talking to sales.

The selling model is still clear before contact. Emitrr sells one platform meant to replace ten or more tools, by location, to single site practices, multi location groups and franchises, with the AI agents as part of that platform. Whether the agents are included or charged per call, per minute or per location, and what the texting, phone and fax bundle costs, is left to the sales conversation.

BB on Setting and Specialty CoverageCoverage is named with validation behind part of it.
Vendor Published

Independent outpatient practices are the market, with a page for each specialty Emitrr targets: physical therapy, veterinary, primary care, ophthalmology, orthopedics, dental, pediatrics, urgent care, chiropractic and dermatology. Integration pages follow the same lines, with SPRY PT for therapy clinics, Dentrix, Curve Dental and Orthotrac for dental and orthodontic offices, and athenahealth, eClinicalWorks and DrChrono for medical practices.

Customer stories cover part of that range: Apex Rehab in therapy, OTC Dental, Josey Medical Clinic and Zynex. Emitrr also sells to home services, education, hospitality and recruitment businesses, and its security page describes it as software for local businesses in general, so healthcare is its main vertical rather than its only one.

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Commercial

Pricing

Vendor-published figures are labeled as such. Figures labeled “Estimated” are derived from third-party sources and have not been confirmed by the vendor.

Entry Price Pricing Basis BAA Tier Implementation Source
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Platform subscription by location, quoted after a demo Business associate agreement signed with every healthcare account Not stated Vendor Published

No price, plan or unit of charge is listed, and the pricing address on the website returns no page. Buying starts with a 20 minute live demo, and a practice can call or text the AI agent before talking to sales. Emitrr sells one platform covering texting, phones, faxing, forms, scheduling, reviews and AI agents, to single site practices, multi location groups and franchises. Whether the AI agents are included in the platform or charged separately is not stated.