2026 Hearst Health Prize

Steer Health Wins the Prize for Excellence in Data Science.

Steer Health
Hospitals & Health Systems

Enterprise AI for Hospital Patient Operations.

Steer answers every call, message, and referral across your system, deflects the routine volume drowning your call center, and writes every action back into Epic and Cerner bi-directionally, so patients stay inside your network instead of leaking out.

See how it works
Modeled for a multi-hospital system
Call center calls deflected61%
Network leakage recovered+28%
Average speed to answer< 5s
EHR write-back accuracy99.6%
Voice AI,
answering live
Voice AISMSWeb chatWeb formsPatient portalEmailAd channels

Voice-led, omnichannel by design. One conversation, one record, whatever channel the patient chooses.

The problem

Your call center is underwater, and every dropped call is a patient leaving your network.

Health systems lose patients at the front door. Hold times stretch, calls go to voicemail, and referrals stall in a queue no one owns. Each abandoned call is a patient who books somewhere else, and the revenue leaks out of a network you spent years building. Meanwhile your EHR holds the answer, but no one has time to act on it.

How it works

This is the Steer cycle, capture, book, collect, return, tuned to the scale and integration demands of a health system.

01

Deflect the call center

Voice AI answers every inbound call 24/7, resolves the routine volume instantly, and escalates only what truly needs a human.

02

Sync with Epic & Cerner

Every booking, update, and note is written back bi-directionally, so the EHR is always the single source of truth.

03

Close network leakage

Referrals are routed, scheduled, and tracked to keep patients inside your owned network of facilities and providers.

04

Recover the no-shows

Same-day rebooks and live waitlist backfill keep high-cost slots and OR time full across every facility.

One system that finishes the job.

01

Bi-directional EHR sync

Reads and writes Epic and Cerner, not a one-way export.

02

Built for call center scale

Answers peak volume without adding a single seat.

03

Leakage you can see

Routing and attribution that keep patients in-network.

What a sealed network looks like.

Modeled on a multi-hospital health system.

61%

call center calls deflected

+28%

network leakage recovered

< 5s

average speed to answer

Proof
Steer didn't just hand us a tool, they became a true partner in how we run patient access across every facility, and that has made all the difference.
Amy Searls
Chief Experience Officer, Prime Healthcare

Why nothing falls through the cracks

Steer remembers every patient across every facility and channel, so each step hands off to the next. A deflected call leads to a booking, a booking writes back to Epic, a referral routes in-network. One system that finishes the job, instead of point tools that lose the patient between departments.

Frequently asked questions

About hospital call deflection, referral management, and Epic/Cerner integration.

What results has Steer Health achieved at hospital systems?

At Prime Healthcare, Steer Health's AI workforce is live across 45+ hospitals and has generated $24M+ in incremental net revenue across 38 facilities. Across all hospital deployments, Steer achieves +34% inquiries booked, 38% open slots filled, and 42% reduction in inbound calls to human staff. The platform goes live in 3 to 4 weeks including full Epic and Cerner integration.

How does Steer Health reduce hospital call center volume?

Steer Health's Luna voice AI handles every routine patient call — appointment scheduling, rescheduling, reminders, insurance questions, and referral intake — without routing to a human agent. Luna achieves 88% of calls booked without human touch, achieving a 42% reduction in inbound calls to staff across hospital call center deployments. This allows call center staff to focus on complex patient needs that genuinely require human judgment.

Does Steer Health integrate with Epic at hospital scale?

Yes. Steer Health has bi-directional Epic integration deployed across 45+ hospitals within Prime Healthcare. Through Indie, the interoperability agent, all Luna bookings, Tara clinical notes, Honi care plans, and Apex prior authorizations are written back to the patient record in Epic in real time via HL7 FHIR — at 99.99% uptime SLA and under 100ms latency.

Enterprise-Scale AI for Hospital Patient Operations

Hospital patient operations break down at three predictable points: the front door, where call volume overwhelms staff and referrals age in queues; the care transitions, where patients fall through gaps between ED, inpatient, and outpatient; and the revenue cycle, where denials and outstanding balances accumulate. Steer Health's 7-agent AI workforce addresses all three simultaneously — live at Prime Healthcare across 45+ hospitals, generating $24M+ in incremental net revenue.

Answer Every Call and Deflect Routine Volume

Luna handles 247+ concurrent calls at under 400ms latency — answering every patient inquiry, booking appointments, managing rescheduling, and processing referrals without routing through a human call center agent. Routine volume that would consume hours of call center staff time is handled autonomously. Calls requiring human judgment are escalated with full context — no repeat explanations for the patient.

Manage Referrals Across the Entire System

Steer captures every inbound referral from fax, EHR, email, and portal — contacts the referred patient within 30 minutes — and closes the referral loop back to the referring provider within 24 hours, system-wide. Referral leakage that drives patients to competing systems is eliminated. In-network patient capture is maximized. The referring physician relationship is protected through automated, consistent status communication.

Close Care Gaps Across Every Transition

Honi automates every major care transition across the health system — hospital discharge to follow-up, ED visit to primary care, surgical procedure to post-op recovery. 10,000+ daily patient check-ins handled automatically, achieving 42% hospital readmission reduction and 89% medication adherence. $1.8M in avoidable Medicare penalties avoided across live deployments.

Write Every Action to Epic and Cerner — In Real Time

Indie connects all seven AI agents to Epic, Cerner, and 30+ EHR and PM systems via HL7 FHIR — writing every booking, every care note, every patient interaction back to the patient record in real time. Hospital administrators and clinical staff have full visibility into every AI-driven action. No shadow records. No manual reconciliation.

See it run on your numbers.

Book a 30-minute demo and we will model your recoverable revenue against your own volumes, before you commit to anything.

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