Patent ID: 8775207

Claim:
A system for scheduling multiple appointments for a course of patient treatment, comprising: a treatment planning system configured to receive a plurality of prescribed treatments, each prescribed treatment comprising an indication of treatment body site location, treatment type, frequency of treatment application, treatment start date, and number of treatment applications; a treatment verification system configured to: automatically identify one or more compatible treatment sets in the plurality of prescribed treatments, each compatible treatment set comprising prescribed treatments capable of being performed during a single appointment, create a treatment plan comprising one or more of the one or more compatible treatment sets, and create an associated plan for one or more modality devices to be used in administering the treatment plan; an appointment processor configured to automatically generate data representing a schedule of appointments over a plurality of days for receiving prescribed treatments included in the treatment plan; a coordinating system configured to: automatically generate data representing treatment orders for each respective appointment in the schedule of appointments, automatically generate a plurality of instruction sets for execution by the one or more modality devices, and associating each of the plurality of instruction sets with a distinct appointment in the schedule of appointments; and a treatment modality system operably coupled to the one or more modality devices and configured to: receive a user selection of a current appointment included in the schedule of appointments, select an associated instruction set from the plurality of instruction sets based on the user selection of the current appointment, and initiate execution of the set by the one or more modality devices.