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Meet Your Sample Patient

New to Otera? Your dashboard no longer starts empty. Until your own patients have a few weeks of exercises logged, most of what Otera does for you — pain and effort flags, feedback in your messages, compliance grades — has nothing to show. So, where your clinic has it enabled, a therapist who has no patients yet gets a sample patient to explore from day one.

What's New

Alex, your sample patient

Alex Sample is five weeks out from a right knee replacement and has three weeks of sessions behind them. Alex appears in your patient list with a Sample label, is visible only to you, and nothing you do with Alex is ever sent anywhere.

Open Alex like any other patient:

  • Session history with pain and effort for every exercise, easing week by week.
  • A flag worth noticing — Alex's latest session had step-ups at pain 7, above the tolerance you'd set, and Alex stopped after two sets.
  • Messages with your earlier notes on a session, Alex's reply, and an unread feedback card about that painful session.
  • Quick Analysis on your phone with Alex's compliance grade, the pain flag and suggested talking points.
  • Next week's plan, ready for you to adjust — by hand or with the AI assistant.

Three things to try

A short checklist above your patient list walks you through the loop Otera is built around:

  1. Review Alex's flagged session.
  2. Edit plan — opens the plan builder with a pointer to its AI assistant; ask it, for example, to swap the step-ups for something gentler this week.
  3. Reply to Alex's feedback.

When you're ready, Invite your first patient is right there. Once you've invited someone, Otera offers to remove Alex. You can also reset Alex's data to fresh dates at any time, remove Alex, or bring Alex back later.

Smoother first steps

  • On mobile, the dashboard opens on your patient list when nobody is on today's list yet, and the "Add patient to today" picker offers to onboard your first patient instead of saying everyone is already added.
  • Messages on mobile now speak to therapists, not patients, when you have no conversations yet.

For Clinic Admins

  • The sample patient is enabled per clinic. It's created only for therapists who have no patients of their own yet and haven't had a sample before (and only when the clinic's exercise library has enough exercises to build one). A therapist who only works from the clinic-wide patient list counts as having none, so they may get one too.
  • Sample patients never appear in clinic-wide lists, billing, reports or analytics, and colleagues can't see each other's.
  • Therapist accounts on clinic sites are created by your clinic's administrator; self-service therapist sign-up is available on the main Otera and OKTA sites.

Rolling out clinic by clinic on the web app and in the latest mobile app update.