A method for scheduling patients for medical appointments, including: predicting the no-show risk and no-show cost for the patients; forecasting the cost of a transportation assistance service for the patients; optimizing the scheduling of patients based upon cost of the transportation assistance service, the no-show risk, and the no-show cost; selecting a population of patients to receive the transportation assistance service; and scheduling the population of patients for their medical appointment and transportation assistance service.
展开▼
