Introduction

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Health care in Ontario has always been a priority. It has become a nightmare to book appointments and manage your health care benefits as an individual. Most often, it is difficult get an appointment for weeks or months and even when a spot opens up, who is going to tell you?

Doctors also have to deal with handing out prescriptions to patients – even those who require a renewal. This wastes both the doctors and patients time. With the rapid advances in technology over the last five years, there is no reason why we shouldn’t have a health care system that can take advantage of that technology.

To design a unified health care web interface that incorporates everything from booking an appointment – with your doctor or a specialist – to picking up a prescription from the pharmacy down the street. This will be achieved in phases providing a gradual implementation of functionality.

The system will allow users with a health card to: • Maintain a health care profile • Book appointments • Receive alerts when an appointment time opens up • Receive reminders via email or text message • Tie into their health benefits package from work • Request and receive prescriptions and renewals • Allow pharmacy’s to receive updated prescriptions and fill them

Secondary objectives include: • Tie the system into existing health care databases for increased functionality

The purpose of our product is a universal web space suitable to all users of various ages and disabilities. Whether you are a college student, to an elderly user with impaired vision, our objective focuses on an easy, usable, accessible web database. Our product will allow any individual with a Health card to access and edit appointments online with their personal health institute. Patients will not be able to book appointments online because of special needs and urgency of condition conflicting with regular check-ups.