I’d like to design (or have designed by someone else) web based software where people may possibly schedule appointments for a doctor’s office–I want to have it be in real time so my receptionist may possibly see the appointments as they fill in. Also, I cannot have more than 1 patient fill a spot. I know software like this exists…but I’d like to make it myself. Do you know what platform I should use? How hard would this machinate be?
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I would use a MySQL database and PHP scripting on a Linux server. This will keep it real time, since when one user schedules an appointment by the PHP form, it is sent directly to the database, and the next user will see that spot blacked out, based on the data existing in the database.
It is hard to say the level of difficulty without knowing your programming knowledge. It is certainly advanced if you have never done any type of database administration or programming. But if you do have these skills, then it should be a rather simple, straight-forward attention, as really all you need is a calendar, a speech accessing the database (writing to and reading from), and a table or two in the database holding the information.
My company designs applications like this on a daily basis, so to me it sounds like a piece of cake. If you’d like more information, delight feel free to email me. Hope this helps a small bit.
I would use the microsoft .net platform.
First I would Differ with you on the use of the word “Platform” since the classification of it is:
Platform : The basic technology of a computer system’s hardware and software that defines how a computer is operated and determines what other kinds of software can be used.
In other words the Platform is the amalgamation of your Hardware and O.S., not the development tool or applications.
Now back to your question, as we all in I.T. know there are two types of transmit methods for a message (in this case the appointment) “Asynchronous Transmit” and “Synchronous Transmit” a simple example is e-Mail and Instant Messaging where as the e-mail is ” Asynchronous” and the I.M. is Synchronous
What I gather from your question is you need Synchronous relay of data, even if you can achieve that by any Development tool or environment. such as .Net IDE or PHP builder coupled with any Data base management System (D.B.M.S.) such as My SQL , Oracle or SQL Server . the Question is what is the best development environment to use .
For your point needs I would say by JAVA (J2EE) with SQL Server 2005 should do the trick. Since Java has a very powerful handling on both web based applications and networking and SQL Server is nearly perfect for small to medium biz (with the ever continues low reliability of Microsoft harvest).
Deferent rules may apply it all depends on the COST if you have low budget . I would go for PHP and My SQL (No licensing needed) even if that may risk the reliability and security of you data
One last thing I worked on Clinical Systems before . and to say the truth the time needed and the complixty of the Software you wanna develop depends on the requierments. for example : How many MDs are ther , Deferent Clincks Exist , 24/7 Service , Emergency Services, IT ALL DEPENDS
hope this helps:)
I hope this helps