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Electronic appointment scheduling

A technology for booking regulations and resources, applied in the direction of healthcare resources or facilities, instruments, data processing applications, etc., which can solve problems such as limited solution choices, long time consumption of users and customers, etc.

Inactive Publication Date: 2006-08-30
夸德拉特公司
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If several new lookups have to be done, it is time consuming for both the user and the customer
[0004] The set of n solutions is provided as discrete solutions, thus limiting the user's choice of solutions
Another problem is that solutions are listed in chronological order of their first availability

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[0011] While the invention will be described hereinafter in conjunction with preferred embodiments thereof, it will be understood that it is not intended to limit the invention to those embodiments.

[0012] Scheduling an appointment may involve:

[0013] 1. One or more persons are involved in the appointment; or,

[0014] 2. Equipment required for the appointment; or,

[0015] 3. The time of appointment; or,

[0016] 4. The location of the appointment; or,

[0017] 5. Any combination of people, equipment, time and place.

[0018] The "time" of an appointment is usually a time slot, ie a period of time that can be defined by a start time and an end time. The "time" of an appointment may also refer to multiple such time slots.

[0019] According to the present invention, a time period or a time window may be defined or specified by the user of the system, for example by entering the start time and end time of the time window with the keyboard of the computer system. This ...

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Abstract

A system and a method are described for scheduling appointments for e.g. patients in medical institutions for performing a procedure such as an examination, according to operational constraints and availability preference criteria. A problem arises when a user of the system gets only one or more available time slots for the appointment, having the duration of the procedure, instead of all possible solutions for a complete time window. A solution is to provide time segments, having a duration longer than or equal to the time slot, and giving the patient the option to select a start time within one of these time segments. The method may be used in a computer or server system e.g. for scheduling examinations of patients in a radiology department or for documentation purposes of these examinations.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a system and method for planning and scheduling appointments in a timely manner, and more particularly for automated patient appointment scheduling in healthcare facilities taking into account operational constraints and availability criteria. Background technique [0002] The product called Qplanner C / S and published by "Quadrat, naamloze vennootschap" and "AGFA-GEVAERT, naamloze vennootschap" (both incorporated companies in Belgium) is a client / server based medical appointment scheduling system. QPlanner C / S provides a user interface where system pairs can propose preferred dates on which an inspection or group of inspections can be carried out. List all possible appointments for that day. The user can choose one of the solutions presented and book that appointment, or let the system look up possible appointments from the next day onwards. At no point does the user see all possible solutions to a given request. In ...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): G06Q10/00G16H40/20
CPCG06Q10/1095G06Q10/109G06Q50/22G16H40/20
Inventor G·马克特林克
Owner 夸德拉特公司