Online Informing and Self-Appointment of Population - A Method to Improve Patient's Access to Health Services

摘要

The public health sector is no longer able to cope population requirements so that the private health sector is facing these requirements and is forced to offer high quality services to the population, including providing new treatments and new medical technology and also to find a faster way to communicate with potential patients. Computers are used in Medicine not only to provide direct health care services for the patients but also to obtain some important information regarding the possibility to schedule to a specifically wanted a doctor. The paper presents a structure of a site, using Web 2.0 technologies, which permits to make an appointment online, to a doctor in a private clinic. Through this application the patient is able to schedule by himself to the doctor he requests and especially at a convenient time for him, according to his schedule and to the doctor's agenda. Additionally, the patient will be reminded by email the chosen appointment, 24 hours before presenting to the doctor.