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Clinic Booking & Reminder Automation

Online booking against real practitioner and room availability, with automated multilingual reminders and no-show reporting by branch.

Sample project

Illustrative project — multi-branch clinic group

Industry

Healthcare

Technology

Next.js · Node.js · PostgreSQL · Redis · WhatsApp Business API · Twilio

Illustrative example. Not a real client engagement — results are described qualitatively because no measured client figures have been cleared for publication.

01Challenge

Challenge

Appointments booked by phone during working hours only, reminders sent manually when someone had time, and a no-show rate nobody was measuring — so nobody could tell whether anything they tried was working.

02Approach

Approach

  1. 01

    Modelled availability as practitioner-and-room rather than a flat calendar, because the real constraint is both at once.

  2. 02

    Sent reminders in the patient's own language at intervals tuned per appointment type, with one-tap reschedule instead of a phone call.

  3. 03

    Kept personal health data out of message bodies — reminders reference an appointment, never a condition.

  4. 04

    Instrumented no-shows from day one so the effect of every reminder change is measurable rather than assumed.

03Solution

Solution

Online booking against real practitioner-and-room availability, automated multilingual reminders on WhatsApp and SMS, and a dashboard that finally measures no-shows by branch, clinician and appointment type.

04Features

Features

  • 01

    Practitioner-and-room availability

    Both constraints are modelled together, so the system cannot offer a slot where the clinician is free but the room is not.

  • 02

    Multilingual automated reminders

    WhatsApp and SMS in the patient's own language, at intervals tuned per appointment type.

  • 03

    One-tap reschedule

    A reminder links straight to a reschedule flow, so changing an appointment does not require a phone call during office hours.

  • 04

    Privacy-conscious messaging

    Message bodies reference an appointment, never a condition — personal health data stays inside the authenticated portal.

  • 05

    No-show analytics

    Rates broken down by branch, clinician and appointment type, so a change to reminder timing can be judged on evidence.

  • 06

    Role-based access and audit

    Reception, clinicians and management see what their role requires, with a full audit trail on record access.

05Technology architecture

Technology architecture

How the pieces fit together.

  1. Frontend

    • Next.js
    • TypeScript
    • Tailwind CSS
  2. Backend

    • Node.js
    • Scheduling engine
    • Queue workers
  3. Database

    • PostgreSQL
    • Redis
  4. Infrastructure

    • AWS
    • Docker
    • Monitoring and alerting
  5. Integrations

    • WhatsApp Business API
    • Twilio SMS
    • Practice management system
    • Calendar sync

06Results

Results

  • Made booking possible outside reception hours.
  • Replaced manual reminder calls with automated multilingual messaging.
  • Created a measurable no-show rate where none previously existed.
  • Kept personal health data out of outbound messages by design.

Outcomes are described qualitatively. No measured figures are claimed for illustrative work — real metrics appear here only when a client has approved publishing them.

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