57 results about "Appointment scheduling" patented technology

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.

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.

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.

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 method for scheduling an appointment using a scheduling software system, includes receiving appointment information entered into appointment scheduling fields of the scheduling software system, the appointment scheduling fields including a location field and a time zone field, updating a user's calendar entries based on the appointment information, causing a search engine to look up a suggested time zone associated with the appointment information entered into the location field and comparing the appointment information entered into the time zone field with the suggested time zone.

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 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.