July 30, 2025
5 min read
Business Wire
Innovaccer's Comet transforms patient access with 24/7 omnichannel AI agents, reducing wait times and boosting appointment conversions.
Innovaccer Inc., a prominent healthcare AI company, has launched Comet, an AI-powered Access Center solution designed to revolutionize healthcare patient access. This innovative solution transforms traditional call centers into intelligent, 24/7 digital front doors for care. Comet addresses long-standing operational inefficiencies by integrating omnichannel AI agents, bidirectional EMR connectivity, and real-time AI copilots. These features streamline patient scheduling, significantly reduce hold times, and alleviate administrative burdens on healthcare staff.
Patients can now engage with healthcare providers at any time, through their preferred communication channel, without the frustration of long waits or callbacks. Concurrently, access center teams benefit from intelligent tools that enhance decision-making and automate routine tasks, leading to increased efficiency.
In the face of healthcare system challenges like staffing shortages, rising patient expectations, and revenue loss due to inefficient access workflows, Comet offers a unified solution. It automates routine interactions, empowers agents with AI copilots, and ensures timely, personalized patient care across voice, web, and SMS channels.
Abhinav Shashank, cofounder and CEO at Innovaccer, emphasized the transformative nature of Comet: “Comet is not a chatbot upgrade. It’s the beginning of a new era in healthcare access, an intelligent front door where every interaction is valued and served, and every patient feels seen. We built it to tackle the chaos of today’s call centers head-on, bringing the speed, empathy, and precision patients expect with AI that actually works for healthcare.”
Key Features of Comet
- Omnichannel AI Agents: Manage routine patient interactions, including scheduling, FAQs, and eligibility checks across voice, chat, and SMS. This feature ensures instant, 24/7 patient access and reduces overall call volumes.
- AI Copilots for Live Agents: Provide patient-specific AI insights, real-time guidance, next best actions, and automate post-call documentation, call summaries, and transcripts. This can reduce average call handle time by up to 38%.
- Referral AI Copilot: Automates referral intake, insurance verification, and expedites referral processing across multiple channels. Its built-in bidirectional EHR integration ensures faster scheduling and minimizes revenue leakage.
- Unified Agent Interface: Consolidates critical tools and data into a single view, enabling staff to manage patient interactions efficiently.
- Pre-built Healthcare Workflows and Plug-and-Play EHR Integrations: Facilitate rapid deployment, often in under 90 days, with the flexibility to scale across departments and service lines.
- Over a 30% increase in appointment and referral conversions.
- Automation of over 70% of patient interactions.
- An approximate 38% boost in staff performance.
- A significant reduction in call resolution times.
- Achieved time-to-value in under 90 days. These outcomes demonstrate Comet's effectiveness in addressing persistent patient access challenges such as long wait times, staff overload, high interaction costs, and missed revenue opportunities. The solution supports healthcare organizations in adopting intelligent, scalable, and patient-centered access models.
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Early Impact and Results
Early adopters of Comet have reported substantial measurable improvements. Internal assessments indicate:Originally published at AiThority on July 30, 2025.