{"id":78925,"title":"🤖 Somn - AI receptionists for healthcare clinics","tagline":"We help clinics answer calls, book appointments, and call patients using AI voice assistants that sound human.","body":"### **The Problem**\n\nClinics do a lot of phone calls— booking appointments, following up after a visit, reminding patients of a visit, verifying insurance, calling referring providers, etc. These calls prevent staff from interacting with patients, building relationships with families, and completing clinical documentation.\n\nIn specialties like physical therapy, some clinicians just let the phone ring out if they’re seeing a patient, resulting in unhappy patients and lost revenue.\n\n### **The Solution**\n\nOur AI assistants handle any phone call that involves a repetitive task, so clinicians can focus on helping patients.\n\nWe don’t ask clinics to rip out any technology to use our agents. That means we integrate with fax machines, EHRs, and existing phone systems.\n\n### **Our Background**\n\n[**Shawn Shivdat**](https://linkedin.com/in/shawn-shivdat) (CEO) grew up helping his mom in her private practice and built software at Massachusetts General Hospital while studying Computational Neuroscience at Harvard.\n\n### **💥 The Deal**\n\nFor clinics, startups, and systems who work with us before Demo Day, we’ll integrate with existing systems (including EHRs) for free.\n\nGet in touch with me at [shawn@penciled.com](mailto:shawn@somnapp.com)","slug":"KWz-somn-ai-receptionists-for-healthcare-clinics","created_at":"2024-03-01T01:18:24.876Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T03:19:16.039Z","total_vote_count":100,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KWz-somn-ai-receptionists-for-healthcare-clinics","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":29463,"name":"Penciled","slug":"penciled","url":"https://penciled.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/adb6dfa703e0e7dadb39281bc09e1fff97605614.png","batch":"Winter 2024","industry":"Healthcare","tags":[],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/29463"}}