AI-Powered Clinical Intake · 2026

Ensure every patient is
understood, prioritized,
and routed in minutes — not hours.

Jessie is the AI Front Door for emergency departments — a continuous intake and triage assistant that greets every patient, listens in 50+ languages, and hands clinicians a complete clinical narrative before they walk into the room.

Jessie AI intake kiosk in a hospital lobby with a pressure-sensitive activation mat
LIVE · Evanston ED · Bay 3
Mat-triggered greeting
ESI assigned Level 2
Routed → Cardiology · 0.4s
ENESARZH+46
Native voice & text
Jessie Continuous intake from arrival to bed
HIPAA-ready
0.4s Triage decision
50+ Languages
<48h Deployment
$1M+ Revenue recovered
Built with frontline clinical staff at
The Crisis

Emergency care runs on static intake.

Post-COVID, ED volumes hit record highs while staffing collapsed. Front-door intake hasn't kept up — and the cost shows up everywhere downstream.

4.3hrs

Average wait for clinical action

Patients wait an average of 4.3 hours before meaningful clinical intervention — a window where critical conditions can quietly worsen.

Up to 20%

Patients leave without being seen

Frustrated by long delays, a significant share of ED patients walk out — direct revenue loss and unresolved health risk.

Manual& inconsistent

Human-dependent triage errors

Manual intake misses critical symptoms and produces inconsistent acuity calls — different stories between the nurse and the doctor.

Comm.gaps

Language & staffing barriers

Linguistic barriers and chronically thin staffing increase clinical risk and delay care for vulnerable patients the most.

The point of entry is broken. Every hour of delay is a safety risk — and a revenue loss.

Validated by the people who run the ED

Same gap. Different roles. Same pain.

Atronics Labs conducted deep field research with operational ED leaders and frontline staff across six hospitals. The pattern was consistent.

"Triage gives us a snapshot. We don't have a way to know what's happening in the chairs after that. We're reactive — that's the honest truth."
Sarah Luciano Operational ED Manager · Edward Hospital
"We have no verbal handoff to physicians. Doctors rely entirely on triage notes in the EMR. Rooms are around 96% occupied — there's no slack."
Joshua Jonkman Operational ED Manager · Northwestern Memorial
"Not enough information leads to mistakes."
AntonioPCT / EMT · Evanston
"Time is rushed. Nurses grow numb. We just keep moving."
JessiePCA · St. Francis
"Inconsistent information slows down intake. Every shift, same problem."
JazzminePatient Registration · Edward
"We play all the roles — plumber, IT, social worker. Anything but nursing."
IzabellaRN · Lurie Children's

Source: operational interviews, six hospitals across the Chicago area. Validated through 25+ ED staff conversations.

The Missing Layer

Three phases of every ED visit — and the gap nobody is watching.

Triage gives clinicians a snapshot. The doctor sees a story. In between, patients wait for hours with no one re-checking. That's the bottleneck.

Minute 0

Initial Triage

A nurse takes the first snapshot — chief complaint, vitals, ESI level. It's accurate at minute zero. Then the patient sits down.

  • Manual intake
  • One-time capture
  • Static EMR note
Hour 1 – 4+

The Blind Spot

Symptoms can worsen — or improve — during the wait. Nobody re-asks. Nurses and doctors end up with different stories about the same patient.

  • No continuous monitoring
  • No real-time updates
  • No escalation triggers
Hour 4+

Physician Care

The doctor finally walks in — working from a snapshot that's now hours old. Re-triage, repeat questions, lost time.

  • Stale clinical picture
  • Repeat questioning
  • Slower disposition

Between intake and treatment, patients deteriorate invisibly. Closing that gap is the single highest-leverage thing an ED can do.

Meet Jessie

The plug-and-play AI nurse at your front door.

Jessie is a continuous, voice-first intake assistant trained on hospital-specific protocols. She greets every patient, listens, asks follow-ups, and updates a structured clinical narrative — until the doctor walks in.

Jessie kiosk active in a hospital lobby with patient stepping onto the activation mat
Mat-triggered · listening
Voice-first
"Hola — soy Jessie. ¿Cómo te sientes hoy?"
"Me duele mucho el pecho. Hace 40 minutos."
Detected: Spanish · Chest pain · 40m onset
Mat-Triggered ActivationFootstep starts the conversation — no app, no clipboard
0.4s response

Natural conversation

Jessie holds a real, adaptive dialogue — chief complaint, severity, duration, history — without a 30-question form.

50+ languages

Clinical intelligence

ESI 1–5 calibrated logic baked in. Custom protocols per facility. Built with frontline RNs and ED ops leaders.

ESI 1–5 routing

Continuous updates

Jessie keeps listening. If symptoms change in the chair, the chart changes too — in real time.

Real-time

Real-time routing

Critical cases trigger instant alerts to the right team. The right people know first — not last.

0.4s alerts
Hear It For Yourself

A real Jessie intake conversation. Press play.

This is an actual recording of a Jessie session — patient greeting, symptom collection, multilingual handling, routing.

Live demo Jessie · AI Intake & Triage Forward triage · English · Sample session
0:00 / 0:00
0:05NarratorToday, intake is slow, inconsistent, and overwhelmed.
0:10PatientI've been having chest pain. It keeps coming and going.
0:14NarratorCritical information is delayed or lost.
0:17AnnabellaHello, my name is Annabella, and this is Jessie, our AI nurse for forward triage.
0:24JessieHey, I'm Jessie, your virtual medical assistant.
0:28JessieI can help with check-ins, appointments, directions, or concerns.
0:33JessieShall we begin?
0:34PatientYes.
0:35JessieWhat is your preferred language?
0:38PatientEnglish.
0:39JessieCould you please tell me your first name and spell it for me?
0:43PatientAnnabella. A-N-N-A-B-E-L-L-A.
0:48JessieEmergency visit, scheduled appointment, drop-in, or other?

Keyboard: Space play/pause · / seek 5s · click waveform to scrub

Deployment Strategy

Phased for early value. Built to scale.

Jessie is designed to land where the friction is highest first — and expand across the hospital as trust builds.

  1. Phase 1

    Urgent Care

    Lowest-friction entry point. High volume, predictable acuity, fastest path to measurable ROI.

    • Live in <48 hours
    • Bilingual intake from day one
    • Throughput & LWBS metrics in week one
  2. Phase 2

    Outpatient & Clinics

    Specialty modules light up next — pediatrics, cardiology, oncology — each tuned to the workflow that already exists.

    • Specialty-specific protocols
    • Continuity across visits
    • Operational dashboards for charge nurses
  3. Phase 3

    Emergency Department

    Once trust is earned in lower-acuity environments, Jessie expands into the ED — the highest-stakes, highest-impact environment.

    • ESI 1–5 with real-time escalation
    • Continuous monitoring through the wait
    • Direct hand-off to attending physicians
The Business Case

Jessie pays for herself — and then some.

Reducing intake friction translates directly to recaptured revenue and lower operational cost. The math is conservative — and it adds up fast.

$1M+ Recoverable per hospital, per year From reduced LWBS, faster throughput, and less rework
↓ 4.3h Average wait-time reduction Faster throughput, higher patient satisfaction, better HCAHPS
30%+ Nursing bandwidth freed Automating intake gives nurses their shift back

Revenue impact breakdown

Revenue driverAnnual impact
Reduced LWBS (left without being seen)$400K – $600K
Faster throughput → more patient capacity$200K – $300K
Reduced triage staff hours$150K – $200K
Improved HCAHPS / CMS reimbursement$100K – $200K
Total estimated annual benefit$850K – $1.3M+

Sources: AACN 2025; Western Journal of Emergency Medicine; Core Clinical Partners ED case study, 2024 · Validated through 25+ ED staff interviews.

Integration

Plug into the systems you already run.

No EHR replacement. No heavy IT project. Jessie sits at the front door and writes structured notes back into your existing workflow.

  • Epic, Cerner, Meditech-friendly
  • FHIR-based clinical summaries
  • SSO / Active Directory
  • Live in under 48 hours
Security & compliance

Built for healthcare's strictest bar.

Clinician-in-the-loop by design. End-to-end encrypted. No PHI used in model training. Aligned with HIPAA and SOC 2 controls.

  • HIPAA-ready architecture
  • SOC 2 controls roadmap
  • No PHI used for model training
  • Clinician-in-the-loop escalation
Limited pilot slots available

Ready to fix your front door?

Hospitals across the Chicago area are already putting Jessie to work. No long contracts. No heavy IT lift. Live in 48 hours.

  • HIPAA-safe form
  • Response within 24 hours
  • No commitment required

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