57 results about "Appointment scheduling" patented technology

A programmable rules-based interface between a patient and an electronic medical record EMR allows controlled patient access to the EMR allowing increased patient participation in the healthcare process. The interface allows the patient to directly schedule appointments for procedures, while filtering requests from patients who are not eligible for a given treatment, thereby limiting waste in resources.

Systems, methods and/or services that allocate and schedules appointments based on supply and demand. In an example, a method is implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable storage medium having programming instructions operable to: gather information of a plurality of suppliers from one or more external sources, prior to a registration process for scheduling an appointment request from a consumer; validate the gathered information of the plurality of suppliers; receive a request from the consumer for scheduling of an appointment with one or more of the plurality of suppliers which meet consumer criteria; enable swapping, purchasing and auctioning of appointments; enable virtual visits and virtual visit queues for on demand virtual appointments; provide system agnostic calendar integration, and provide available suppliers to the consumer based on the consumer criteria.

Disclosed herein is a method and system for alerting users of an appointment system of any change in an appointment schedule between practitioners and clients. If a user registered in the appointment system chooses to schedule an appointment, the user confirms the appointment by sending a conformation message to the message handling module. The appointment system, at predetermined intervals of time compares the status of preferred schedule of appointment against the existing schedule of appointments and if there is any change in the status of scheduled appointment, the change is stored in the central database and an alert message generated. The alert messages are sent via email or short message services (SMS) or a prerecorded voice message on their wire-line phone to users affected by the change in schedule and who have registered for the appointment service.

A system to allow self-scheduling of appointments via an electronic network. The electronic network is configured to permit secure access thereto by a service recipient. The system comprises a self-scheduling server coupled to the electronic network for secure communications therewith. The self-scheduling server is adapted to receive appointment scheduling requests from the service recipient securely via the electronic network The self-scheduling server includes a processor which is coupled to a rule base, to a scheduling database, and receives the appointment scheduling requests. The processor is operable upon the appointment scheduling requests to authorize the appointment scheduling request to send appointment schedule information to the scheduling database for inclusion therein and to send an appointment acknowledgment to the service recipient securely via the electronic network.

A scheduling program and system includes a database of client information including a field relating to an appointment date. Within a range of the appointment date, preferably one week, the program cues a user to contact a patient to schedule an appointment within the next week. Three attempts are made to schedule the patient before the patient is withheld from the Loop and informed via mail that it is now the patient's responsibility to contact the office to arrange an acceptable appointment. The program further includes a method for tracking “no-show” and non-paying patients.

The present invention relates to an online appointment scheduling system. The system is configured to register a client (e.g., doctor) and at least a first and second vendor (e.g., sales representative) with the system. The system receives from the client a set of rules for vendor appointments. A client schedule of available appointments is generated that complies with the set of rules. The client schedule is accessible by the first vendor, to allow the first vendor to book an appointment. Once booked, the appointment is designated as a pending appointment. The system then requires that the first vendor confirm the pending appointment within a confirmation window and, where upon confirmation, the appointment is designated as a confirmed appointment. Alternatively, if the first vendor fails to confirm the appointment within the confirmation window, a notification is sent to a second vendor of a now available appointment.

A system, method and computer product for use in scheduling sales and service activities between service providers and customers, allowing for transfer of information between service providers and customers via phone, mail, e-mail, text messaging or web-based information transfer according to customer preferences and further allowing the service provider to maintain transaction, contact and customer satisfaction data for reporting and analysis by augmenting traditional databases with self-generated data and tracking customer spending and satisfaction results.

A system, method and computer program for automated appointment scheduling is provided. The system includes a computer linked to a voice messaging utility and to a database and the computer program of the present invention. The computer program defines a scheduling engine that includes a two-way interactive voice response engine, and that enables a user to place a call to the computer and book an appointment by means of a scheduling menu that includes one or more hierarchically defined menu options dynamically defined by the scheduling engine based on user input provided by the user. The computer program enables the scheduling of one or more appointments by users on a fully automated basis. A method of providing automated telephone appointment booking to one or more users is provided, as well as a method for one or more users to book an appointment via an automated telephone appointment booking attendant.

A computer-implemented system for scheduling patient appointments including a patient interface terminal configured to receive a patient identifier and to display a patient-specific listing of reasons for a medical appointment. The system further includes a computer system adapted for receiving the patient identifier, generating the patient-specific listing of reasons for a medical appointment based on an electronic medical record associated with the patient identifier and a comprehensive listing of reasons stored in a reasons database, receiving a selected reason for a requested medical appointment from the patient interface terminal, and generating and providing one or more specialized appointment scheduling options based on a combination of the selected reason and data from the electronic medical record associated with the patient identifier, the specialized appointment scheduling options including scheduling options for specialized medical resources specifically associated with the combination.

The present invention is directed, in part, to a system and methods for human resources management and efficient, online and mobile guidance on assisting job seekers in locating and securing job opportunities. More specifically, the present invention relates to a system and methods for performing substitute fulfillment, including identifying acceptable substitute employees/professionals, job opportunity review, real time employee availability, skill set review for employers/clients, appointment scheduling and establishing network connections amongst employers/clients and employees/professionals for both current and future job opportunities. Even more specifically, the present invention relates to building experience hours through successive work experience, establishing network connections and securing employment through historical connections among subscriber users and in optimizing staffing to accommodate for peak and non-peak business hours. Further, the present invention provides methods and a system for optimizing scheduling for available employment shifts through geolocation and internet sources.

The instant invention relates to an appointment scheduling system that allows inviters to define various activities for appointments and to invite invitees to select said appointments. The system utilizes multiple visual user interfaces to allow inviters, invitees and other users to interact with the appointment scheduling system. The system allows for inviter selection of time windows in which appointments may be allowed as well as for the customization of these properties in terms of how often and until when these defined time windows will recur. The system also utilizes various techniques to associate invitees with particular appointment activities received by the invitee through email and/or other correspondence means.

A system for improving and streamlining the evaluation and purchase of products from salespeople by buyers. In particular, methods for successfully managing interactions between buyers and sellers in high volume retail environments by implementing a standardized product offer proposal method and subsequent controls on the buying decision-making process. It utilizes existing tools and new software to improve buyer's efficiency by consolidating the software systems tools into a single standardized user interface and improves seller's efficiency by providing product offering proposal preparation and presentation tools as well as buyer appointment scheduling tools and generates revenue by buyers as an integral part of the buying process.

System and method for a patient controlled electronic (client-server) medical record system that can be used by patients, various healthcare professionals, and even emergency medical services. Patients set up the system, own and control the data, and authorize selected healthcare professionals to enter notes and other medical records (which may be imported from various legacy medical record systems) into the patient controlled system. The healthcare professionals can also retrieve data from the system according to various levels of patient authorization. Security is maintained using a combination of machine readable ID codes and patient PIN numbers, and emergency medical services personnel may also be granted at least lower level access to the system even without PIN codes, which is useful when patients are found in an unresponsive state. Other system functions, including automatic appointment scheduling, automated physician enrollment and referrals, and various messaging functions are also described.

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for scheduling appointments. Appointment requests are received via a communication service, calendar information corresponding to the proposed appointment time and day is retrieved from a calendaring system and displayed to the user without requiring the user to open the calendaring application. The appointment can be accepted, confirmed, and recorded without opening the calendaring application. Multiple appointment times and days can be proposed and accepted among several meeting attendees. Temporary blocks may be placed on proposed and accepted calendar time slots until a finalized appointment time is negotiated and accepted.

The present invention relates to a method of scheduling and paying for visits with a medical professional. Specifically the present invention relates to a web based appointment service that relies on prepayment to schedule appointments from available doctors.

Disclosed herein is a computer implemented method and system for integrated appointment scheduling and targeted advertising. A host website provides an appointment scheduling application for scheduling an appointment. A user searches for a service provider on the host website to make an appointment. The user makes the appointment with the selected service provider on the host website or through multiple communication devices. The appointment scheduling application translates the appointment from the communication devices by integrating the appointment made on the host website and the appointment made through the communication devices in an appointment calendar on the host website. The appointment scheduling application schedules the appointment of the user with the selected service provider. The user is notified with a confirmation message and appointment reminder messages upon scheduling of the appointment. The method and system disclosed herein further inserts targeted advertisements with the confirmation messages, appointment reminder messages, and electronic newsletters.

The invention provides a method and equipment for updating an electronic calendar appointment plan and a method and equipment for generating an electronic calendar appointment plan. The equipment for updating the electronic calendar appointment plan comprises a searching device, an obtaining device and an updating device; wherein the searching device is configured to search at least one calendar entry and each calendar entry includes at least the group information which identifies a member group specific to an appointment and member information which identifies each member of the group when the appointment is initiated; the obtaining device is configured to obtain the current member information of the corresponding member group according to the group information of the calendar entry in accordance with each calendar entry in at least one calendar entry; and the updating device is configured to determine whether the member group changes according to the member information of the calendar entry and the current member information, if the member group is determined to be changed, the updating device sends out the information used for updating an appointment plan corresponding to the appointment so as to reflect the change to the electronic calendar of the members relevant to the change, and replaces the member information of the calendar entry with the current member information.

A contact routing and scheduling system is provided allowing users to define various contact routing and scheduling contexts to direct a contact to a calendar of appointment availability representing the availability of a set of representatives pre-qualified to have times available for an appropriate appointment and to book an appointment as an integral part of the contact routing function. The system utilizes multiple visual user interfaces to allow users, contacts, and administrators to interact with the contact routing and appointment scheduling system. The system allows for user selection of contact routing and scheduling rules, association of scheduling activities to the contact routing process, and association of representatives who will ultimately accept appointments with contacts. The system also utilizes various techniques to associate contacts with particular contact routing and scheduling contexts received by the contact through email and/or other correspondence means.

Two parallel time lines are displayed. On a first time line all possible solutions for scheduling an appointment within a preset period of time, such as a day or a part of the day, are displayed. Such a possible solution can be selected. Triggered by such a user selection of one of the displayed possible solutions a period surrounding the selected possible solution is blown up and displayed on the second time line. Possible solutions within the period on said second time line are indicated and can also be selected.

An appointment scheduling device for scheduling an appointment for a patient to visit a health provider includes an embedder, a predictor, and a scheduler. The embedder receives input data about the patient. The input data is associated with a request to schedule the appointment with the health provider. The embedder generates an embedding based on the input data. The predictor receives the embedding and predicts an appointment parameter based on the embedding. The scheduler schedules the appointment based on the appointment parameter.

A solution space is computed and stored which comprises for a given set of constraints all possible solutions for all available resources of a certain kind. Upon selection of a specific resource, the solution space is filtered to select all possible combinations containing the specific resource and the result of the filtering is displayed.