How do I implement AI in a healthcare practice safely?
Start with your marketing, not the clinical record. Shoutout Digital puts marketing agents onto the tools your practice already uses: your ads, search, your website and the handover of enquiries to your front desk. We add one job at a time, and a person approves anything that makes a claim. We do not implement clinical AI: no scribes, no X-ray reading, no diagnosis or treatment advice, and nothing that touches your appointment book.
What we implement, and what we don’t
Marketing AI
What we implement
- Google Ads and Meta ads
- Search and AI answers
- Your website
- Enquiries to your front desk
Clinical AI
Not us, ever
- Scribes
- X-ray reading
- Diagnosis or treatment advice
- Your appointment book
Where to read more
This page is the short version. The engagement, step by step, is on our process page. The jobs the agents run are on the agents page.
- /our-process/
How an engagement runs
From the free account audit to day 90: what happens in week one, which changes wait for your OK, and the log of every change.
- /ai-agents/
What the agents do
The jobs our agents run on your ads, search and website, and how an enquiry is handed to your front desk.
- Clinical AI
Meant clinical AI?
Meant clinical AI, such as a scribe or an X-ray tool? Start with Ahpra’s guidance on meeting your professional obligations when using AI in healthcare and the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care’s AI guidance for clinicians. We do not implement clinical AI.
Three steps to start safely
Each step stays inside your marketing tools. None of them needs your clinical records.
- 01See what you already have
We look at your ad accounts, your website, your Google Business Profile and how enquiries reach your front desk. Not the clinical record. You can start with the free account audit: findings in writing within 1 business day. We only look. Our audit makes no changes, every action is logged, and we unlink within 7 days unless you hire us.
The readiness check is the free account audit plus a look at your website and your Google Business Profile.
- 02Check each job against the rules
Before a job goes live, we check it against Ahpra’s advertising rules and the Privacy Act. This is not legal advice and not an Ahpra certificate. Your duties as a practitioner stay with you, and your own adviser decides anything uncertain. See AI and patient data.
- 03One job, then the next
In week one, the agents in your plan go live, one job at a time, and a person on our team watches the log as each job is added. Your practice approves changes within 2 business days. A person still approves:
- New ad copy and offers
- Clinical wording
- A change to the agreed budget
- A new campaign or channel
What our agents will not do
These limits apply on every plan, from the first day.
Automations send to your front desk only, by email and SMS. An enquiry that arrives at night waits for the morning, and your practice calls the person back.
- Book, move or cancel an appointment
- Answer your phones
- Run recall, or message your patients or people who enquired
- Give clinical advice, or say whether someone needs a treatment
- See your practice system, My Health Record, healthcare identifiers or Medicare numbers
- Publish a claim, an offer or a price a person has not approved
Frequently asked questions
Is this a clinical AI project?
No. We implement marketing agents, not clinical AI.
Our agents work on your ads, search, your website and the handover of enquiries to your front desk. They do not touch patient care. We do not implement:
- scribes that record or summarise a consultation
- X-ray or image reading
- diagnostic models, or anything that gives treatment advice
- anything that reads or writes your appointment book
If you meant clinical AI, start with Ahpra’s guidance on AI in healthcare and the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care’s guidance for clinicians. Both are written for practitioners, who stay responsible for any clinical tool they use.
Is the compliance check legal advice?
No. It is a working check of each planned job, not legal advice.
Before a job goes live, we check it against two sets of rules:
- Ahpra’s advertising rules. Nothing false or misleading, no testimonials about clinical care, nothing that creates an unreasonable expectation, and any offer states its terms.
- The Privacy Act. A name and a phone number in an enquiry are personal information, and anything about a person’s teeth or care can be health information.
Your duties as a practitioner stay with you, and your own adviser decides anything uncertain. Our check also does not move responsibility for your advertising away from your practice. That is why a person approves anything that makes a claim.
Does Ahpra certify this rollout?
No. Ahpra does not certify marketing agencies or their tools.
Ahpra’s advertising rules apply to anyone who advertises a regulated health service, including businesses, and the advertiser must check content that others produce for it. So your practice stays responsible for its advertising, even when we write it.
That is why a person approves, before anything goes live:
- new ad copy and offers
- clinical wording
- a change to the agreed budget
- a new campaign or channel
If an agency tells you its AI is “Ahpra approved”, ask who approved it. Ahpra does not.
What do you need access to, and what do you refuse?
We ask only for your marketing accounts, and your practice keeps ownership of every one.
| We ask for | We never ask for |
|---|---|
| Google Ads admin access | Your practice management system or appointment book |
| GA4 and Tag Manager access | Patient lists or clinical notes |
| Google Business Profile access | My Health Record, healthcare identifiers or Medicare numbers |
The free account audit needs less: share your Google Ads account number and have your Admin accept our manager link request. We only look. Our audit makes no changes, every action is logged, and we unlink within 7 days unless you hire us.
For the website chat and automations, on Growth and Group, we work in the website chat widget, Google Ads, Meta, GA4 and the GoHighLevel CRM. Before we get any access, your practice signs our onboarding form.
How fast are the agents live?
Within the first week: the agents included in your plan go live, one job at a time.
The week starts when your practice has given us access and we have agreed the cost-per-enquiry target and the monthly budget with you. From there:
- one job goes live first
- a person on our team watches its log
- the next job is added only after that
- once live, small website edits are done within the hour, and new campaigns go live the same day
Bigger work is quoted separately. Every change goes to your log with its reason, so you can see what went live and when.
Which plan is this, and is there an extra fee?
Implementation is not sold on its own and has no fee of its own. It is how every monthly plan starts.
Which plan fits depends on the job you want the agents to do:
| Job | Plan |
|---|---|
| Google Ads and SEO | Every plan, from Foundation |
| Meta ads, AI Overviews visibility, Google Business Profile, website chat and automation | Growth and Group |
| Custom agents for a job the standard agents do not cover | Group |
Plans are month to month, and the day-90 promise is on the Growth and Group plans: we work for free until we hit it. Prices and the full conditions are on pricing.
What still needs a person?
Anything that makes a claim, changes the plan or spends differently waits for a person.
A person approves:
- new ad copy and offers
- clinical wording
- a change to the agreed budget
- a new campaign or channel
Beyond those four, nothing that makes a clinical claim, mentions an outcome or uses a testimonial goes live without a person approving it. Our agents never spend past the budget we agreed with you.
Every change the agents make is logged with its reason, so you can see what changed and why. Your named account lead replies within 1 business day.
Do you replace our practice management software?
No. Our agents never see your practice management system.
They work on your marketing tools: your ads, search, your website and enquiry handling. When someone enquires, the enquiry goes to your front desk by email and SMS, with the details the person gave, and your team books them in your own system.
That means the agents never:
- book, move or cancel an appointment
- read clinical notes
- run recall or message your patients
There is no new system for your team to learn. We build on the tools your practice already uses.
Where does patient data fit in this rollout?
As little as possible. The agents work on advertising and website data, not patient records.
Some personal information still passes through. A website enquiry with a name and a phone number is personal information under the Privacy Act. If someone describes a symptom, that message can be health information. Either way, it goes to your front desk.
What the agents never see:
- your practice management system or clinical notes
- My Health Record
- healthcare identifiers or Medicare numbers
The full limits are on AI and patient data. That page describes how we work. It is not a legal opinion.
How is this page different from our process page?
This page answers one question: how to start with AI safely. Our process is the whole engagement.
| This page | Our process |
|---|---|
| The line between marketing AI and clinical AI | The free account audit, week one and day 90 |
| Three steps, in short | What your practice does at each step |
| What the agents will not do | The monthly report and the day-90 check |
Both pages hold to the same limits: the agents never book, never give clinical advice and never see your practice system. For the jobs the agents run on your ads, search and website, see what the agents do.
Start with your marketing
See how an engagement runs, from the free account audit to agents live in week one. Or book a strategy session and ask us what we would turn on first.
A person replies within 1 business day.


