A system able to match a customer with health care services and providers, the system comprising:
- a database of customer-profile-data, the customer being able to generate and customize their customer-profile, the customer-profile comprising said customer-profile-data;
- a database of provider-profiles, the provider-profiles containing service and provider data corresponding to a provider, the provider being able to generate and customize their provider-profile;
- a matching system able to select at least one provider-profile from the database of provider-profiles in response to a query initiated by the customer;
- a quoting-system, whereby the provider is required to submit a quote for a service to the customer in order for the provider-profile corresponding to the provider to be presented to the customer in response to the query;
- a communication system whereby the provider may communicate and negotiate with the customer;
- a renegotiating-system, whereby the provider is able to submit a revised offer for an earlier-submitted quote in response to the query;
- a graphical user interface whereby the customer can customize their customer-profile, communicate with other customers and providers, and submit queries, and whereby the provider can customize their provider-profile, communicate with other customers and providers, and submit quotes in response to queries;
- a transaction-brokerage, wherein the transaction-brokerage arranges a transaction between a customer and a service-provider, and charges a commission fee when a transaction is successfully executed;
- a calendar-interface, whereby executed transactions for a provider-service to be rendered are automatically logged into a provider-calendar corresponding to the associated provider, and whereby the calendar-interface prevents further transactions to be executed if a time and a date of the transaction conflict with those of a previously-executed transaction;
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- at least one electronic device able to display said graphical user interface to said customer and enable said customer to access and interact with said system.