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Patient Journey Automation

Campaigns Built for the Way
Care Actually Flows

Multi-step email and SMS journeys that follow your patients through intake, labs, treatment, and maintenance — and circle back when the next visit comes around.

Stage-based triggers. Cyclical re-entry. Clinician-approved AI drafting. All on a production job-queue engine.

The Builder

Design a Journey Once. It Runs for Every Patient.

Build multi-step drip campaigns over email and SMS, attach them to wellness pipeline stages, and let enrollment tracking and campaign analytics show you exactly what happened — opens, clicks, and responses, per step and per patient.

A stylized look at the builder: stage trigger, steps, clinician approval gate, and per-campaign analytics.

The Big Idea

Wellness Journeys Are Cyclical — Your Campaigns Should Be Too

Sales funnels move in one direction and end. Care doesn't. A patient visits, gets labs, starts a protocol, follows up — and then the cycle begins again. ClinicSpark campaigns are built around that loop, with re-entry and repeat enrollment as first-class concepts.

Visit Labs Protocol Follow- up The Care Cycle then the next visit ↻

Re-Entry Is the Feature, Not the Edge Case

Visit → labs → protocol → follow-up → next visit. When a patient comes back around to a stage they've been in before, ClinicSpark journeys can re-enroll them and pick the loop up again — no manual re-adding, no stale one-shot sequences.

Linear

A traditional sales campaign fires once, runs to the end, and is done. If the contact comes back, someone has to notice and restart it by hand.

Cyclical

A ClinicSpark journey supports loops and re-entry: each time a patient returns to Labs Review after a new draw, the follow-up sequence starts again, automatically.

Triggers

Driven by Your Wellness Pipeline

Campaigns enroll patients automatically when they move between the stages of your wellness pipeline. Set the trigger once; every stage change after that does the work for you.

Stage 1

Intake

A new patient enters the practice. Trigger onboarding sequences: intake forms, what to expect, and how to prepare for the first visit.

Stage 2

Labs Review

Results are in. Trigger scheduling of the review visit and queue the plain-language summary for delivery after clinician approval.

Stage 3

Treatment

The protocol is underway. Trigger adherence nudges and periodic check-ins so the plan doesn't drift between visits.

Stage 4

Maintenance

Long-term care mode. Trigger recall reminders and time-based re-engagement when too much time passes without a visit.

Intake → Labs Review → Treatment → Maintenance — and back through the cycle as care continues.

The Engine

What's Under the Hood

The journey builder sits on a production job-queue engine, so every step fires reliably and every send is tracked.

Stage-Based Triggers

Journeys start themselves when a patient enters a pipeline stage. No manual enrollment, no missed handoffs.

Trigger: enters "Labs Review" Action: enroll in "Lab Follow-Up" Result: review visit scheduled

Loops & Re-Entry

Built for cyclical care. Patients can re-enter a journey each time they return to a stage — the next lab draw, the next visit, the next protocol.

While in "Maintenance": → send periodic check-in → wait → still in stage? loop → moved stages? exit

Multi-Step Email + SMS

Sequence both channels in one journey:

  • Email steps with templates
  • SMS steps for time-sensitive nudges
  • Waits from hours to months
  • Branching on patient state

Enrollment Tracking

See exactly who is in each journey, which step they're on, and what's queued next — per patient, per campaign.

Campaign Analytics

Measure each journey with real engagement data:

  • Opens
  • Clicks
  • Responses
  • Per-step performance

Production Job-Queue Engine

Every step runs through a production job-queue engine, so scheduled sends and stage checks execute reliably — not on a hope and a cron job.

In Practice

Six Journeys Clinics Run Every Day

The same engine, applied across the whole patient relationship — from the first intake form to the visit that hasn't been booked yet.

Use Case 01

New-Patient Onboarding

Trigger: patient enters Intake
  1. Send a welcome email with intake forms
  2. Follow with a what-to-expect sequence before the first visit
  3. Nudge by SMS if forms are still outstanding

First impressions set the tone. Patients arrive prepared, and your front desk stops chasing paperwork.

Use Case 02

Appointment Reminders & No-Show Reduction

Trigger: appointment synced from Cerbo
  1. Reminder cadence tied to Cerbo appointment sync
  2. Email confirmation, then SMS as the visit approaches
  3. Easy reschedule path instead of a silent no-show

Reminders track the actual schedule in your EHR — when the appointment moves, the cadence moves with it.

Use Case 03

Lab Follow-Up

Trigger: patient enters Labs Review
  1. Invite the patient to schedule their review visit
  2. Queue the plain-language lab summary
  3. Deliver it after the clinician approves

Results never sit in a queue unnoticed, and nothing patient-facing goes out without clinician sign-off.

Use Case 04

Protocol Adherence & Check-Ins

Trigger: patient enters Treatment
  1. Schedule adherence nudges across the protocol
  2. Send periodic check-ins between visits
  3. Surface responses so the care team can intervene early

The plan made in the exam room keeps working in the weeks between appointments.

Use Case 05

Lapsed-Patient Re-Engagement

Trigger: no visit in N months
  1. Time-based trigger fires when a patient goes quiet
  2. A warm we-miss-you sequence with a booking link
  3. Escalate to a task for staff outreach if no response

Patients who quietly drift away get a reason to come back — without anyone running a report to find them.

Use Case 06

Birthday & Anniversary Outreach

Trigger: patient milestone date
  1. Birthday greetings, automatically
  2. Care-anniversary notes that mark the journey so far
  3. A personal touch at scale, every year

Small moments build long relationships — and the system never forgets a date.

AI Assist

AI Drafts. Clinicians Approve. Then It Sends.

ClinicSpark can draft campaign messages with AI — but a clinician reviews and approves every AI-drafted message before it reaches a patient.

You get the speed of automation with the judgment of your care team. The approval step is part of the journey itself, not an honor-system afterthought.

Built-In Guardrails

Two Zones, Structurally Separated

Patient communication and prospect marketing have very different rules. ClinicSpark doesn't rely on policy to keep them apart — the separation is built into the architecture.

Clinical Zone · HIPAA-Governed

Patient Campaigns

Journeys that touch patients and their health information run inside the HIPAA-governed clinical zone.

  • Stage-based patient journeys
  • Lab follow-up and treatment check-ins
  • Appointment reminders tied to Cerbo sync
Marketing Zone · MHMDA-Governed

Prospect Campaigns

Outreach to prospects lives in a separate MHMDA-governed marketing zone, with its own controls.

  • Opt-out management
  • Consent tracking
  • Structurally separated from clinical data

The full picture of how the zones work — and why the separation is structural, not just policy — is on the Compliance page.

See a Patient Journey Run End to End

We'll walk you through the builder, the stage triggers, and the clinician approval flow — live.

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