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OhMD Launches Nia: A Human-in-the-Loop AI Voice Assistant

by Jasmine Pennic 05/14/2025 Leave a Comment

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OhMD Launches Nia: A Human-in-the-Loop AI Voice Assistant to Transform Healthcare Communication Powered by Twilio’s ConversationRelay.

What You Should Know: 

– OhMD, a leading patient communication platform for physician practices, today announced the launch of Nia, a groundbreaking AI voice assistant. The new offering is powered by Twilio’s innovative ConversationRelay service and is designed to streamline patient interactions for medical practice teams. 

– The announcement was made from the floor of Twilio’s SIGNAL event, the premier industry gathering for developers, innovators, and technology leaders.

– Nia is engineered to manage simple, routine patient requests automatically, while intelligently flagging more sensitive or complex patient needs to be handled directly by practice staff. This approach aims to significantly reduce patient call volumes, freeing up valuable staff time.

Optimizing Practice Workflows with Intelligent Automation

Designed specifically with the demands of busy medical practices in mind, Nia offers a sophisticated solution to common communication bottlenecks. The AI voice assistant will handle routine patient inquiries such as appointment scheduling, requests for prescription refills, and answers to general questions. This automation allows healthcare staff to focus their expertise on more complex patient interactions that require a personal touch.

OhMD’s Nia seamlessly blends state-of-the-art AI with essential human-in-the-loop capabilities. When a patient’s request is more nuanced or sensitive, Nia cues it up for the provider’s team, enabling them to directly engage with the patient and provide the necessary personalized care.

Powered by Twilio’s Cutting-Edge ConversationRelay

The advanced conversational capabilities of Nia are enabled by Twilio’s ConversationRelay service. This powerful technology allows developers to create robust, natural-sounding voice AI agents by integrating real-time streaming, advanced speech recognition, and sophisticated interruption handling.

For Nia, this means unprecedented conversational accuracy and scalability. Crucially, it also allows for seamless escalation of conversations to human agents when needed, ensuring a consistently high-quality and empathetic patient experience.

Anticipating a Major Impact on Patient Interactions

OhMD is confident in Nia’s potential to transform patient communication at scale. The company expects its new AI voice assistant to manage more than 55 million patient interactions in the upcoming year, 2025. This milestone is anticipated to further solidify OhMD’s position as a key leader in the field of conversational AI for patient communication.

The launch of Nia represents a significant step forward in leveraging AI to enhance efficiency and patient satisfaction within physician practices, allowing medical teams to dedicate more resources to direct patient care.

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