Patent ID: 6792087
Filing Date: 2004-09-14
Classification: H04L,H04M

Abstract:
A scheduling control system of establishing and disseminating on call schedules of health care specialists to a health care group comprising:a telephone interface for making outgoing calls or faxes to one of health care group members and the health care specialists and receiving incoming calls from one of the health care group members or the health care specialists; an Internet interface for accepting incoming email from one of the health care group members and the health care specialists or postings, and for sending out emails to one of the health care group members and the health care specialists or modifying web pages; a memory for storing a plurality of calendars, each calendar containing information including dates and times entered by corresponding each of the health care specialists; a comptroller interface for recording and reporting time spent on call by the health care specialists to a comptroller for billing purposes; an administrator interface for reporting changes or amendments to the schedules to an administrator; an engine for instructing the telephone interface and the Internet interface to send out notification of changes in schedules and bills; and a voice synthesizer or phrase bank for prompting either one of the health care group members or one of the health care specialists to enter an identification code, dates and times of the one of the health care specialists will be on call when either said one of the health care group members or said one of the health care specialists connects to the scheduling control system by the telephone interface or Internet interface; wherein the scheduling control system provides each of the health care specialist's schedule to members of the health care group automatically by fax or Internet posting, and the engine reviews and analyzes each of the plurality of calendars and directs the telephone interface or Internet interface to contact each of the health care specialists who have not entered on call times and dates by a deadline, and directs the telephone interface or Internet interface to contact the administrator if there is a problem including one of the following conditions: a particular health care specialist has not entered on call times, a particular health care specialist has entered too much on call time, and time periods on a given calendar are not covered by a particular specialist.