With multiple facilities in several Indiana counties, and physicians shuttling from location to location, there's quite enough for a scheduling system to keep track of. The physicians perform surgery at local hospitals, as well as on an outpatient basis at their own facilities. The CPU Medical Management System scheduler concentrates on keeping track of the providers, and doesn't bother scheduling rooms and equipment. The assumption is that if a provider is at a facility, the room and equipment are present also. This simplifies things considerably.
Patients call to make appointments for procedures.
The system schedules the appointments by type of procedure. From the provider's experience, they know about how long a given procedure generally takes. The system, therefore, knows how long to allot for a given procedure type, and how much time to search for to accommodate the patient. This simplifies tasks for the personnel doing the scheduling. The system also simplifies the medical insurance maze.