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Clinic Waitlist Backfill Board

Why This is an Opportunity

Every small clinic deals with this and the front desk hates phone tag. The logic is simple: match open slot attributes against waitlist preferences and send emails. It's a form + matching logic + Resend.

Key Pain Points

  • Front desk calling 8 people to fill a 2pm slot and nobody picks up
  • Losing $200+ per empty appointment slot because you couldn't fill it in time
  • Paper waitlist in a binder that nobody updates and half the numbers are wrong
  • Patients get annoyed being called about slots that don't match their availability
Market Opportunity
Small Clinic Patient Scheduling and Waitlist Management Software Market
Current Size (2026)
$0.6B
Projected (2036)
$2.5B
CAGR
14.8%
This market is projected to grow 297% over the next 10 years, reaching $2.5B by 2036.

Original Discovery

Small medical and dental clinics lose revenue from last-minute cancellations because the front desk has to manually call down a waitlist to fill the slot. This app maintains a waitlist with patient preferences (day, time, provider), and when a slot opens, the front desk marks it available and the app fires off email notifications to matching waitlist patients — first to confirm gets it.

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