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American Medical Online Scheduling

AMS is a internet-software-system for doctors, to do their complete appointment and resource planning. The following list presents the core features of the system.

• Patients can use a convenient graphical calendar to make appointments with their doctor via internet.
• Doctors log on to AMS to check their appointments and to confirm or reject appointment-requests by their patients.
• AMS offers the doctor an online time manager.
• AMS optionally synchronizes itself with Outlook, so that the doctor does not have to manage all his appointments online. On the other hand, he nevertheless is able to do so.
• AMS not only manages individual working doctors but also may be used by cooperating doctors which do their job together in one medical care center.AMS is also used to manage the recources of the doctor (e.g. special machines, treatment rooms, etc.).
• If a doctor wants to send his patient to a specialized doctor, they may use the AMS system of the other doctor to perform this task.
• With AMS, the waiting room of the doctor is relieved: Patients may leave the doctor's practice rooms and for example go shopping.AMS sends SMS messages to the mobile phones of the patients when they are in turn.

Features

• An application-service-providing company uses AMS to create accounts for doctors.AMS runs on an internet host.
• Each doctor uses a username/password combination to access "his" own AMS section where he e.g. can use his appointment planner.
• Patients are able to make appointment requests with a convenient graphical appointment planner by accessing "their" doctors section via some dedicated link.
• AMS supports individual working doctors as well as cooperating doctors working together in one office.
• Patients are automatically reminded to their appointments via E-Mail and SMS.
• Additional synchronization module for the software "Outlook".
• AMS will be extended to manage the doctor's resources so that the appointment planning system automatically takes care of rooms, special equipment, usage conflicts when more than one doctor works in the office, etc.
• Doctors may send patient to specialized doctors.
• "Outlook" sychronization modules do not only synchronize appointment data but also do synchronize address and customer data. So for example a patient only has to enter his patient number when creating an appointment request.
• Mobile communication abilities to AMS. Patients may be automatically reminded to their appointments by SMS.
• Mini-myAMS offers two main features. Firstly, the patient gets the possibility of saving his own settings (name, adress, insurance, etc.) so that he hasn't to enter the data over and over again. Secondly, the patient get's his own calendar, were appointments made on a doctor's page are automatically transferred to, so that the patient can remember his appointments more easily.

AMS is an Internet Application Service Provider (ASP) Program

In the standard case, all doctors use one central AMS server. The application service providing company has some administrative login to the AMS server to add, configure and delete doctor accounts. Nevertheless it must be possible for a doctor to use his own AMS server. In this case, the administrative login is not available.

AMS online environment

• Webserver: Apache Version 1.3.6,
• PHP: Version 3.0.7,
• MySQL: Version 3.22.21.

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