BACKGROUND In a general practice in The Netherlands, the demand for direct telephone consultation with the doctor became extreme, which resulted in poorly managed consultations, and poor telephone access due to busy lines. A call-back telephone appointment system was therefore introduced: all calls are answered and, when possible, managed by the practice assistant. If the assistant feels incapa...

Abstract Following the advances in mobile communication and information technology, smart phones have been used in a wide variety of commercial, social, entertainment, file sharing and health transactions and applications. The current procedures in healthcare environment for patient registration, appointment scheduling and payment are time consuming and somehow tiresome. Traditionally, patie...

Objective. To test if appointment reminders blinded to immunization status improve kept-appointment and vaccination coverage rates. Design. Controlled trial. Setting. Pediatric clinic serving a low-income community in New York City. Intervention. Children ages 4 through 18 months (n 5 1273) scheduled sequentially for clinic appointments were systematically assigned to 1 of 4 study groups: contr...

During a severe financial crisis, it is a priority to use scientific evidence to identify factors that enable therapeutic compliance by patients. This study aimed to evaluate a possible association between the number of patients who attended a medical appointment and had medicine prescribed and the number of these same patients who purchased the prescribed medicine and whether the level of reim...

Most of business sectors today are using network services and offering Online web services in order to create more benefits for both their stakeholders and themselves, including the way of how people make booking. This project is about to implement a database system which the transactions can be done in web base application. The system helps to save the time and effort of the users in safe and ...