Patent ID: 6345260
Filing Date: 2002-02-05
Classification: G06Q,G16H

Abstract:
An asynchronous system for scheduling appointments for a plurality of patients at medical facilities of a plurality of medical professionals comprising:(a) a master schedule electronic data base having: a. a data base of existing appointments for said medical professionals, b. means for updating said data base; c. another data base of available appointment times for said medical professionals, d. means for updating said another data base, e. tentative appointment data base storage means for electronically storing records of tentative appointments for said patients with said medical professionals, means for asynchronously requiring subsequent electronic confirmation or rejection of said tentative appointments, and f. means for electronically communicating indicia of said tentative appointments to said medical professionals; (b) a coordination center having: a. communication means including a telephonic link, b. means including said telephonic link for individually effecting telephonic communication with said patients; c. means for making said tentative appointments for said patients with said medical professionals and for communicating indicia of said tentative appointments to said master schedule data base; (c) means including said tentative appointment storage means responsive to receipt of said indicia of said tentative appointments for storing said indicia; and (d) means responsive to inquiry by an inquiring one of said medical professionals of tentative appointments made for said inquiring one of said medical professionals to electronically transmit to said inquiring one of said medical professionals indicia of tentative appointments made for said inquiring one of said medical professionals.