Medical appointment scheduling system

A non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon configured to cause a processor to execute a method of facilitating access between a patient endpoint system and a healthcare provider computer system, comprising:

• receiving, at a management computer system through a network, healthcare provider information from at least two healthcare provider computer systems including appointment availability information;
• storing the healthcare provider information in a database along with a collection of healthcare provider information from a plurality of other healthcare provider computer systems, the healthcare provider information including appointment availability information;
• providing, from the management computer to the patient endpoint system, an interface to the database to retrieving the healthcare provider information;
• providing, from the patient endpoint system to the healthcare provider computer system, a request for an appointment based on the appointment availability information retrieved by the patient endpoint system from the database prior to the healthcare provider computer system receiving at the management computer system the healthcare provider information;
• and
• generating in real time a plurality of available appointment times and present the plurality of available appointment times to the patient endpoint system and receiving a user selection of a presented appointment time.

A computing system, comprising:

• a healthcare provide computer system, a management computer system, and a patient endpoint system;
• wherein the management computer system is configured to facilitate access between the patient endpoint system and the healthcare provider computer system by:
• receiving, through a network, healthcare provider information from at least two healthcare provider computer systems including appointment availability information;
• storing the healthcare provider information in a database along with a collection of healthcare provider information from a plurality of other healthcare provider computer systems, the healthcare provider information including appointment availability information;
• providing, to the patient endpoint system, an interface to the database to retrieving the healthcare provider information;
• wherein the patient endpoint system is configured to provide to the healthcare provider computer system, a request for an appointment based on the appointment availability information retrieved by the patient endpoint system from the database prior to the healthcare provider computer system receiving at the management computer system the healthcare provider information;
• and
• generating in real time a plurality of available appointment times and present the plurality of available appointment times to the patient endpoint system and receiving a user selection of a presented appointment time.