Patent ID: 8423377

Claim:
A method for reducing surgical scheduling conflicts and errors, said method comprising: a surgical case scheduler logging into an electronically networked medical scheduling system for a surgeon to schedule a first surgical request comprising a medical procedure in coordination with an operating room at a medical facility, a medical equipment distributor, and an equipment supplier or vendor; said surgical case scheduler entering preliminary patient data together with at least one of, case date, case place, case time, surgical procedure, required equipment, requested medical personnel, medical distributors, and medical supplies into said electronically networked medical scheduling system as part of said first surgical case request; storing said first surgical case request in a database associated with said electronically networked medical scheduling system; electronically notifying a plurality of surgical case scheduling information recipients to said first surgical case wherein surgical case scheduling information recipients represent entities required to process said surgical procedure included in said first surgical case request wherein said plurality of surgical case scheduling information recipients include a party representing a hospital, a party representing said medical equipment distributor, and a party representing medical personnel; automatically sending electronic notifications to said surgical case scheduling information recipients when a conflict exists with said scheduled said first surgical request; archiving data associated with said first surgical case request and extracting statistical information and using said archived data for business, demographical, and socioeconomic studies, and for educational purposes by medical service and equipment providers, insurance companies and various third parties of interest; matching said surgeon with a research company; and conducting marketing research between said surgeon and said research company based on said archived data.