[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-an-llm-agent-books-doctor-appointments-mostly-safely":10,"sections":34},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":24,"tags":25,"sources":29,"feedback":33,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":33,"total_tokens":33},3711,"an-llm-agent-books-doctor-appointments-mostly-safely","An LLM Agent Books Doctor Appointments, Mostly Safely","CareConnect, an open-source scheduling agent, completed 91.8% of appointment tasks at 3 cents each — but it still can't tell you if your symptoms are serious.","A new research system called CareConnect can book, change, and cancel healthcare appointments using a large language model — and its authors spent considerable effort making sure it won't try to do anything beyond that.\n\nBuilt by researchers and detailed in a preprint, CareConnect chains together eight purpose-built tools using LLM function calling and retrieval-augmented generation to handle scheduling logistics. It refuses to give medical advice through what the paper calls \"deterministic short-circuit mechanisms\" — hard-coded rules, not model judgment. Tested across 680 scenarios, it hit a 91.8% task completion rate, a median response time of 2.2 seconds, and 96% compliance on safety-critical test cases. The average cost per appointment came out to roughly $0.03, which the authors compare favorably to manual scheduling overhead.\n\nThe cost figure is the number worth paying attention to. Healthcare administrative work is estimated to consume a substantial share of clinical operating budgets, and scheduling is one of the most friction-heavy parts of that. A system that handles routine booking at pennies per transaction — and refuses to stray into clinical territory — sidesteps the liability minefield that has stalled broader AI adoption in healthcare.\n\nStill, 91.8% task completion means roughly one in twelve attempts fails, which is a different kind of problem when the thing being scheduled is a medical appointment. The 4% safety non-compliance rate on the hardest test cases is similarly worth scrutinizing before anyone deploys this in production. The code is public on GitHub, so scrutiny, at least, is available.","[\"ai\",\"healthcare\",\"llm\",\"open-source\"]","2026-07-07T04:00:00.000Z","2026-07-07T06:27:32.402Z","2026-07-07T06:27:35.275Z","published",null,[],"ai",[24,26,27,28],"healthcare","llm","open-source",[30],{"name":31,"url":32},"arXiv cs.AI","https:\u002F\u002Farxiv.org\u002Fabs\u002F2607.05055",0,{"sections":35},[36,40,45,50,55,60,65,70,75,79,84,88,93,98],{"name":37,"slug":24,"count":38,"latest_published_at":39},"AI",2590,"2026-07-16T04:00:00.000Z",{"name":41,"slug":42,"count":43,"latest_published_at":44},"Security","security",294,"2026-07-15T19:59:48.000Z",{"name":46,"slug":47,"count":48,"latest_published_at":49},"Deals","deals",179,"2026-06-29T20:02:07.000Z",{"name":51,"slug":52,"count":53,"latest_published_at":54},"Policy","policy",158,"2026-07-16T00:02:48.000Z",{"name":56,"slug":57,"count":58,"latest_published_at":59},"Hardware","hardware",122,"2026-07-14T19:46:26.000Z",{"name":61,"slug":62,"count":63,"latest_published_at":64},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",93,"2026-07-13T13:20:48.000Z",{"name":66,"slug":67,"count":68,"latest_published_at":69},"Software","software",70,"2026-07-13T19:52:25.000Z",{"name":71,"slug":72,"count":73,"latest_published_at":74},"Science","science",66,"2026-07-10T10:29:37.000Z",{"name":76,"slug":77,"count":78,"latest_published_at":18},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",59,{"name":80,"slug":81,"count":82,"latest_published_at":83},"Gaming","gaming",41,"2026-07-09T04:00:00.000Z",{"name":85,"slug":86,"count":82,"latest_published_at":87},"Startups","startups","2026-06-29T20:55:50.000Z",{"name":89,"slug":90,"count":91,"latest_published_at":92},"General","general",29,"2026-07-10T22:28:58.000Z",{"name":94,"slug":95,"count":96,"latest_published_at":97},"Reviews","reviews",20,"2026-06-24T12:00:01.000Z",{"name":99,"slug":100,"count":101,"latest_published_at":102},"How-To","how-to",6,"2026-06-16T09:00:00.000Z"]