| 摘要 |
Healthcare appointment information system and method enabling a patient to manage multiple accounts with third party sources through a single account. A user account is created for storing individual user healthcare data such as user preferences (e.g., Monday morning appointments or willingness to be placed on waiting lists), user names and passwords (for accessing third-party sources), contact information (phone, email, text), insurance plans, gender, age, medications, existing appointments and other healthcare information enabling the system to book an appointment on behalf of the patient on one or more availability sources. In addition to booking on the patient's behalf, the account information also enables patient communications with the various sources to be conducted through the system. For example, notifications from other availability sources can be transmitted through the system, which may reformat the message and communicate the reformatted message to the patient. The patient response may then be transmitted via the system to the source. These communications or their content may also be used to update the user account information. |
| 主权项 |
1. A healthcare appointment availability information system, including a processor in electronic communication with a plurality of modules, the modules comprising:
an ingestion module configured to locate and retrieve healthcare appointment availability data from a plurality of disparate sources via web crawlers and application programming interfaces; a transformation module configured to select among overlapping or conflicting ingested availability data for an associated provider retrieved from different sources and map the selected ingested data to common formatted request parameters to identify a particular available healthcare provider appointment; a storage module configured to store the ingested or mapped data, and to store user specific account information including user preferences and user access information for accessing one or more of the sources as the user; a filtering module for filtering the mapped data based on a user search or booking request and on the associated user account information to determine available appointment times that best satisfy the user search or booking request; an interface module for generating an electronic interactive user interface for receiving user search and booking requests for an available provider appointment based on the request parameters and displaying the filtered appointment times based on the user requests; and a booking module for booking on behalf of the user, a user selected particular available healthcare provider appointment with the respective source, utilizing the user access information to access the respective source as the user. |
