CENTRALIZED MARKETPLACE FOR HEALTHCARE APPOINTMENTS ACROSS PRACTICE GROUPS
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1. A method comprising:
- offering a plurality of available appointments from a plurality of healthcare practice groups for online booking from a website;
receiving data identifying a practitioner specialty and a patient location from a patient desiring to book an appointment online from the website;
searching a database of available appointment times of the practice groups for appointment times matching the identified specialty and location; and
offering the matching appointment times to the patient for online booking from the website.
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Abstract
Systems and methods for aggregating available healthcare appointment times across multiple unaffiliated practitioner groups, including search and display algorithms. A centralized marketplace is provided for real time booking of healthcare appointments which does not require the patient to have a preexisting relationship with the practitioner. The aggregated booking system enhances the number of available near term and conveniently located appointment options while the search and display algorithms reduce the complexity of the patient and practitioner information required to maintain accurate and synchronized database booking records.
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1. A method comprising:
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offering a plurality of available appointments from a plurality of healthcare practice groups for online booking from a website; receiving data identifying a practitioner specialty and a patient location from a patient desiring to book an appointment online from the website; searching a database of available appointment times of the practice groups for appointment times matching the identified specialty and location; and offering the matching appointment times to the patient for online booking from the website. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A network based scheduling system for healthcare appointments comprising:
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a database containing available appointment times for a plurality of healthcare practitioner groups, including practitioner specialty and location information for each practitioner; a controller managing a schedule for booking of the available healthcare appointments, wherein the controller operates via a network to; supply available appointment times via the network to a plurality of patients via a website; receive scheduling information via the website from a patient, including an identified practitioner specialty and location; search the database for available appointments matching the identified specialty and location; supply the matching available appointment times to the patient as links on the website, wherein the patient can directly book an appointment by selecting the link associated with the desired appointment time on the website. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A method comprising:
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providing a plurality of available appointments from a plurality of healthcare practice groups for online booking from a website; enabling patients to book an appointment from the available appointments via the website; collecting patient feedback from patients who have completed an appointment booked via the website; and providing on a webpage with the available appointments patient feedback on individual practitioner'"'"'s associated with the available appointments. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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