Systems and methods for broadcasting appointment availabilities

A method for broadcasting notifications pertaining to appointment availabilities in schedules associated with medical practitioners, comprising:

• providing, with a processor, a scheduling platform adapted to transmit notifications identifying appointment availabilities in schedules for a plurality of medical practitioners, the scheduling platform including a first portion that is accessible to the medical practitioners and a second portion that is accessible to a plurality of patients;
• providing the medical practitioners with access to a plurality of notification features via the second portion of the scheduling platform, wherein each of the notification features is configured to transmit notifications to a subset of patients in a separate broadcast scenario and each is associated with broadcast configuration settings that permit the medical practitioners to customize the respective broadcast scenarios;
• receiving a first set of selections from the medical practitioners pertaining to the notification features, the first set of selections activating notification features to enable transmission of the notifications according to corresponding broadcast scenarios associated with the activated notification features;
• receiving a second set of selections from the medical practitioners for customizing broadcast configuration settings for each of the activated notification features, the broadcast configuration settings at least identifying a subset of patients for receiving the notifications in accordance with the broadcast scenarios corresponding to the activated notification features;
• storing the first set of selections and second set of selections on a non-transitory storage medium associated with the scheduling platform;
• periodically transmitting, with a processor, the notifications to the subset of patients identified by the broadcast configuration settings;
• and
• providing the subset of patients with access to the notifications via the first portion of the scheduling platform, wherein the notifications identify appointment availabilities in the schedules for the plurality of medical practitioners and permit the subset of patients to reserve the identified appointment availabilities in the schedules.