All care resources, one scheduling engine — from the outpatient appointment to the surgical block.
Outpatient consultation, operating theatre, haemodynamics, diagnostics, day hospital and telemedicine managed from one surface. Absence management integrated. Mass-change templates for bulk operations across services and theatre sessions.
All resource types, one view
Outpatient, surgical, haemodynamics, CT/MRI/endoscopy, day hospital — dialysis, chemotherapy, infusions — and telemedicine in one coordinated surface. The weekly agenda of a cardiologist with consultation sessions, catheterisation lab slots, operating theatre time, on-call shifts and a congress absence is managed as a single object, not as six disconnected calendars.
Mass-change templates
One operation to move a full surgical session to another day, apply a schedule change to the entire cardiology service, or open emergency slots for a demand spike. Changes are applied at the session or service level, not agenda by agenda.
Absence management closes the loop
Vacations, licences, training, congresses and rest days after on-call are registered in the scheduling engine. The system blocks the affected slots automatically and notifies the appointments team to reschedule patients. Absence data feeds the resource availability view; there is no separate register to maintain.
Integrated with admission
A scheduled appointment triggers the admission flow directly. The patient's clinical profile, coverage status and prior episode history are available at the point of scheduling. The appointment creates the administrative episode; the care team does not enter data twice.
The scheduling surfaces, each a first-class resource.
Six resource types, each with its own booking rules and session logic, managed under one engine and one availability model.
Outpatient consultation
Session duration configurable by physician, by visit type — first visit, follow-up, results review, check-up, teleconsultation — and by care centre. Multi-slot bookings for complex consultations. Rescheduling under a controlled scheme: no double-booking, automatic patient notification, cancellation reason recorded. In-person, teleadmission and teleconsultation platforms configured separately under the same resource calendar.
Surgical programming
Operating theatre scheduling with estimated procedure duration and associated resource assignment — lead surgeon, anaesthetist, scrub team, equipment sets. Surgical session templates for regular weekly programming. Session-level mass moves apply the change to the entire theatre block. Emergency procedure insertion with automatic conflict detection against the booked session.
Haemodynamics and interventional procedures
Catheterisation laboratory, electrophysiology and interventional radiology — high-value, low-volume resources with specific availability constraints. Block scheduling with session-level templates. Emergency insertion handled within the block without disrupting the planned session sequence. Resource assignment (cardiologist, radiographer, perfusionist) tracked per procedure booking.
Diagnostic imaging and specialised tests
CT, MRI, endoscopy, ultrasound, echocardiography — each with its own resource calendar and preparation protocol. Test-specific preparation instructions attached to the appointment record and visible to the patient portal. Ordering-to-scheduling linkage: an order generated in the clinical HIS or in Axional Health Suite creates a scheduling request without manual re-entry.
Day hospital and ambulatory sessions
Chemotherapy sessions pre-scheduled across multiple visits per treatment protocol. Dialysis cycles, infusion protocols and rehabilitation programmes tracked as multi-session episodes across the day-hospital resource. Session-level capacity management by chair or bay. The episode view shows the full treatment calendar, not a sequence of isolated appointments.
Teleconsultation
Virtual visit slots configured separately from in-person consultation — different duration rules, different session templates. Videoconference link generated automatically at booking and attached to the appointment notification. The same absence, reschedule and cancellation mechanics as in-person care. Teleconsultation activity feeds the same billing trigger as physical attendance.
The scheduling problem no single-view tool solves.
The problem most scheduling tools address is appointment booking. The problem hospital networks need solved is resource coordination across a week of mixed clinical activity for a specialist working across multiple service types. A cardiologist in a medium-complexity hospital has, in a single working week, three outpatient consultation sessions, one operating theatre day with three planned procedures, two haemodynamics sessions in the catheterisation laboratory, one echocardiography session in diagnostics, one 24-hour on-call shift and a one-day congress absence. Each of these is a different resource type with different booking rules, different preparation requirements and different downstream billing triggers. A tool that handles only outpatient appointments leaves the other five resource types outside the coordinated view — managed in spreadsheets, in the theatre nurse's notebook, in the on-call rota system.
Axional Health Suite handles all six resource types under one scheduling engine and one availability model. The scheduling manager sees the cardiologist's full week as a single object. Absence registration closes the slots and prompts reschedule notifications automatically. A session-level mass move — the operating theatre day shifted by 48 hours because of equipment maintenance — is a single operation, not six individual appointment reschedules. The engine enforces the availability rules for each resource type automatically; the scheduling manager does not have to know which rules apply to which surface.