Pulmonology Practices
Keep your PFT lab running at capacity and your chronic lung patients out of the hospital.
Pulmonology practices manage a combination of complex diagnostics and long-term chronic disease care. Your PFT lab requires specialized technicians and equipment. Sleep studies involve multi-night scheduling and external facility coordination. Meanwhile, your COPD and asthma patients need consistent monitoring to prevent exacerbations that drive costly hospitalizations. Curowell ties these different workflows together.
Built for your workflow
We understand how pulmonology practices actually work
PFT lab utilization is inconsistent
Pulmonary function tests require a dedicated lab, calibrated equipment, and a trained respiratory therapist. When PFT slots go unfilled, your expensive lab sits idle. When they are overbooked, patients wait too long and test quality suffers because the technician rushes. Getting consistent utilization without over- or under-booking is a daily challenge.
Smart Scheduling
Smart Scheduling manages PFT lab slots with awareness of equipment calibration windows, technician availability, and realistic test durations. It books pre- and post-bronchodilator studies with the appropriate interval between. When a PFT slot opens up, the system identifies patients with pending orders who could fill it, keeping your lab productive.
Sleep study coordination involves too many moving parts
A patient referred for a sleep study needs an initial consult, the overnight study itself (often at an external sleep lab), a follow-up to review results, and potentially a CPAP titration study. Each step depends on the prior one, and patients get lost between steps because no one system tracks the full workflow.
Smart Reminders
Smart Reminders tracks the sleep study pipeline from consult through CPAP titration. When a patient completes their overnight study, the system triggers a reminder to schedule their results review. If a patient has not scheduled the next step within a configurable window, your coordinator is alerted. No patient gets stranded between a completed study and an unscheduled follow-up.
COPD and asthma patients only come in when they are in crisis
Chronic lung disease patients who feel relatively stable stop coming for quarterly check-ups. Their next visit is an urgent appointment during an exacerbation, or worse, an ER visit. Each prevented hospitalization saves the healthcare system thousands of dollars and saves your patient weeks of recovery. But keeping stable patients engaged is harder than treating sick ones.
Patient Chat
Patient Chat gives chronic lung patients a channel to report symptom trends between visits. Patients can share peak flow readings, inhaler use frequency, or exacerbation triggers without calling the office. Your clinical team reviews these check-ins and can intervene with medication adjustments or earlier appointments before a full exacerbation develops.
Common questions
Questions from pulmonology practices
Can the system schedule PFT appointments with the required pre-test instructions?
Yes. PFT appointments automatically trigger pre-test instructions that include bronchodilator withholding periods, caffeine restrictions, and arrival timing. The instructions are sent at the right interval before the test so patients arrive properly prepared. This reduces the number of tests that need to be rescheduled due to patient non-compliance with pre-test requirements.
How does Curowell coordinate with external sleep labs?
While Curowell does not book directly into external facility systems, it tracks the sleep study as a milestone in the patient's care pathway. Your coordinator records the study date, and the system anchors the follow-up schedule to that date. It also sends reminders to patients about their upcoming study with the external facility's instructions and contact information.
Can we identify which COPD patients are overdue for spirometry monitoring?
Yes. Chronic disease monitoring protocols set spirometry intervals based on disease severity and treatment changes. The system tracks when each patient last had spirometry and alerts your team when patients are approaching or past due. This proactive tracking helps you maintain clinical guideline compliance and catch lung function changes early.