Eye Care Appointment Scheduler

Summary

The Eye Care Appointment Scheduling Profile specifies the creation of a scheduling information exchange between a master appointment schedule and a working healthcare provider recognizing that often the master schedule and the personnel who operate it may not be readily available at the provider’s location. It also defines the communication between patient registration systems and the appointment scheduling system about patient demographics. The Eye Care Appointment Request contains all of the required data needed to request a patient appointment. The Eye Care Appointment Response has all of the required data to confirm that an appointment with the desired criteria has been created or that the appointment could not be set as requested. The goals of including these transactions in the IHE Technical Framework include standardizing the means of requesting patient 150 appointments, minimizing the time needed for these requests, maintaining both the flexibility and the specificity needed for appointment scheduling in a clinical environment while increasing the accuracy of both the request and the response, and giving the healthcare provider a means to determine if the scheduling request has or has not been filled. Additionally the Scheduling Profile allows the healthcare provider to view schedules based on requested criteria.