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Canvas Medical Integration

Turn Canvas Appointments Into Confirmed Visits

VisitConfirmed confirms every Canvas appointment over two‑way SMS and AI voice, so your staff stops chasing no‑shows. A lightweight Canvas SDK plugin feeds it your appointments.

BAA available
Plugin sends IDs only, no PHI
Consent + quiet hours
See it in action

Not a reminder.
A conversation.

One-way reminders get ignored. VisitConfirmed texts and calls each patient in your practice's name, answers what they ask, and confirms the visit.

  • Two-way over SMS and AI voice
  • Answers questions, day or night
  • Escalates only what needs staff
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Northside Family Health

Text message

Hi Maria, it's Northside Family Health. You have a visit with Dr. Lee on Tue at 2:00 PM. Reply YES to confirm.
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Do I need to fast beforehand?
9:41 AM
No fasting needed for this visit. Reply YES to confirm or RESCHEDULE for a new time.
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Yes
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You're confirmed for Tue at 2:00 PM. See you then!
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Text Message
Sent from your practice's number, so patients never see VisitConfirmed

Canvas Runs the Practice. VisitConfirmed Runs the Follow-Through.

Canvas gives care teams a FHIR-native EHR with a real plugin SDK. But appointment engagement still happens through manual calls, fragmented reminder tools, or one-way blasts patients ignore. We've written more about why appointment reminders aren't appointment confirmations and what it takes to close the loop.

Canvas Medical
  • FHIR source of truth
  • Patient and appointment data
  • Charting and clinical workflows
VisitConfirmed
  • Outreach automation
  • Two-way SMS confirmations
  • AI voice fallback
  • Answers patient questions
  • Human escalation

From Booked to Confirmed, on Autopilot

Four steps from a Canvas appointment to a confirmed visit.

01

Canvas records an appointment

The VisitConfirmed plugin, installed in your Canvas instance, fires when an appointment is created or canceled.

02

VisitConfirmed reaches out automatically

VisitConfirmed texts and calls each patient in your practice's name to confirm the visit, retrying across channels until it gets an answer.

03

The conversation adapts in real time

The agent answers patient questions, handles a "can't make it," and knows when to stop. No answer? Retry. Needs a person? Escalate.

04

Your front desk stays in the loop

Routine confirmations resolve on their own. Only the exceptions reach your staff: a patient who needs to reschedule, or a question the agent can't answer.

SMS and voice work together. Patients who don't reply to a text get a follow-up phone call. The AI speaks naturally.

Built on the Canvas SDK

VisitConfirmed runs alongside Canvas, not in place of it. Canvas stays the source of truth; VisitConfirmed handles the outreach.

The plugin never sends patient PHI

The Canvas plugin forwards only resource IDs and scheduling metadata: no names, no contact details. VisitConfirmed reads the demographics it needs directly from the Canvas FHIR API over a scoped, credentialed connection.

Canvas
VisitConfirmed
SMS / AI Voice

Plugin fires on an appointment event → VisitConfirmed pulls demographics from the Canvas FHIR API → reaches the patient over SMS and voice

Canvas SDK plugin APPOINTMENT_CREATED APPOINTMENT_CANCELED FHIR Patient OAuth2 client credentials

Install it straight into your Canvas instance with the Canvas CLI. No app-store review to wait on. The plugin is open source and MIT-licensed, and does one job: tell VisitConfirmed when an appointment changes.

One Plugin. The Iceberg Underneath Is Not.

Install one plugin. Get a full engagement engine underneath.

What you see

A small plugin in your Canvas instance that forwards appointment events to VisitConfirmed.

What VisitConfirmed handles
  • AI voice conversations that handle real patient responses
  • Retry logic across channels (SMS → voice → escalation)
  • No-answer vs. wrong number vs. voicemail vs. partial confirmation
  • Timezone-aware quiet hours and consent management
  • Per-practice phone numbers and white-label patient messaging

What Your Team Gets

Higher Show Rates

AI-driven confirmations help recover visits that would otherwise become no-shows.

Less Manual Work

Free front-desk staff from repetitive reminder calls and routine follow-up.

Early Risk Detection

Identify patients who are unresponsive or likely to miss before the slot is lost.

PHI-Safe by Design

The plugin forwards IDs only. Patient demographics stay inside a scoped, credentialed FHIR connection under a BAA.

Fast to Install

A single open-source plugin installs into your Canvas instance. No app-store review, no in-house build.

Human-in-the-Loop

Automation handles routine work while your staff stays in control of exceptions.

Built for Practices Running on Canvas

If your practice runs on Canvas and missed appointments hurt revenue, utilization, or patient outcomes, VisitConfirmed is designed for you.

Primary & specialty clinics

Practices where a full schedule is the difference between a good day and a wasted one.

Virtual care & telehealth

Providers running high-volume video visits who need reliable attendance.

Operations teams

Where a missed visit means lost revenue, delayed care, or wasted capacity.

Make Canvas Appointments Stick

One plugin turns booked appointments into confirmed visits.

Frequently Asked Questions

No. Canvas stays your EHR and source of truth. VisitConfirmed runs alongside it and handles patient outreach.
A small open-source plugin, built on the Canvas SDK, installs into your Canvas instance with the Canvas CLI. It fires when an appointment is created or canceled and forwards the event to VisitConfirmed. No listing in the Canvas extensions catalog is required to install it.
The plugin forwards only resource IDs and scheduling metadata, never names or contact details. VisitConfirmed then reads the demographics it needs directly from the Canvas FHIR API over a scoped, credentialed connection, covered by a BAA.
Yes. SMS goes out first; if a patient doesn't reply, an AI voice call follows. Retries and human escalation are built in, and every message goes out in your practice's name.
Practices running on Canvas that want to reduce no-shows and cut front-desk phone tag without building a patient engagement system from scratch.