Systems and Methods For Scheduling Healthcare Visits
First Claim
1. A method for scheduling a patient appointment to visit a healthcare provider via a user interface comprising:
- prompting a user for at least one appointment criterion via said user interface;
searching at least one healthcare provider system for available appointments based on said at least one appointment criterion;
generating an array of available healthcare provider appointments based on the results of said search of at least one healthcare provider system; and
populating said interface with said array of available healthcare provider appointments, each of said healthcare provider appointment corresponding to a healthcare provider.
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Abstract
Methods and systems are provided for searching for and scheduling healthcare provider visit appointments via a user interface. A user may access a healthcare visit agent via the internet, and instruct the agent, via a user interface, to conduct a search among one or more healthcare provider systems for available visit appointments. In certain embodiments the agent generates an array of available appointments based on search criteria entered by a user via the user interface, and then populates the user interface with the array. A user may then select one or more healthcare provider appointments from the array, and instruct a scheduler to reserve the appointment time for the user at the healthcare provider. In certain embodiments the user may search for available appointments based on visit basis criteria, location criteria, calendar criteria, insurance criteria, patient satisfaction criteria and patient retention criteria.
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1. A method for scheduling a patient appointment to visit a healthcare provider via a user interface comprising:
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prompting a user for at least one appointment criterion via said user interface; searching at least one healthcare provider system for available appointments based on said at least one appointment criterion; generating an array of available healthcare provider appointments based on the results of said search of at least one healthcare provider system; and populating said interface with said array of available healthcare provider appointments, each of said healthcare provider appointment corresponding to a healthcare provider. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A healthcare visit agent for searching for and scheduling healthcare provider appointments for a user, said agent comprising:
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a user interface allowing the user to interact with the agent via a network; a healthcare network server connecting said agent with one or more healthcare provider systems; an appointment search engine in communication with said user interface and said healthcare network server; and an appointment scheduler in communication with said user interface and said healthcare network server, wherein said user interface prompts a user for at least one search criterion, said appointment search engine searches for available healthcare provider appointments on said one or more healthcare provider systems via said healthcare network server based on said at least one search criterion, said appointment search engine populates the search results on said user interface, and said appointment scheduler reserves appointments on said one or more healthcare systems upon receiving appointment instructions from a user via the user interface. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A computer readable medium and logic for instruction execution, said computer readable medium encoded with instructions for execution in a computer system, said instructions, when executed on a computer system
provide access to a user interface via a computer workstation; -
offer at least one healthcare provider appointment search criterion for user selection; instruct a search engine, upon command by a user, to conduct a search on at least one healthcare provider system for available healthcare provider appointments based on said at least one healthcare provider appointment search criterion; offer at least one healthcare provider appointment to a user for user selection; and instruct a scheduler, upon user selection of at least one healthcare provider appointment, to reserve said at least one healthcare provider appointment with the healthcare provider system.
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