Patent ID: 8688466
Filing Date: 2014-04-01
Classification: G06Q,G16H

Abstract:
1. A method for online booking of healthcare office appointments comprising: storing, on an aggregator server, for each of a plurality of healthcare practitioners from a plurality of unaffiliated practice groups, a procedure and corresponding procedure duration for each practitioner, wherein each stored procedure is selected from predefined procedure types and the procedure duration is individual to each associated practitioner; maintaining, by the server, an aggregator database of updated available office appointment data individual to each practitioner, wherein maintaining comprises: receiving, by the server, from an associated website, a patient request identifying a procedure selected from one of the predefined procedure types; processing, by the server, the patient request, for each practitioner having the identified procedure stored in the database, wherein processing comprises: receiving, on the server, a patient selected start time; and booking an office appointment at the selected start time with the associated practitioner and identified procedure, wherein booking comprises: