Telemedicine Appointment Booking Platform

Seeing a specialist still means phone calls, waiting rooms and paper prescriptions for most patients, while clinics lose hours to manual scheduling and no-shows. Telemedicine removes the distance, but only a purpose-built booking layer makes it trustworthy: verified doctor profiles with genuine availability, slots that cannot be double-booked, reminders that cut no-shows, and a prescription trail the patient keeps. This project builds exactly that layer as a full web application. Patients search doctors by specialty, fee and rating, pick a real open slot from a live calendar, and join a secure video session; doctors control their weekly schedules and issue prescriptions from templates that generate signed PDFs. The booking engine uses database-level constraints so two patients clicking the same slot resolve to exactly one confirmed appointment.

1. The doctor sets a weekly schedule template (working days, slot length, breaks) from the doctor dashboard.
2. A patient searches by specialty and opens a doctor profile showing fee, rating and genuinely open slots.
3. Selecting a date renders the day's slots minus already-booked ones; picking a slot creates a provisional hold.
4. The patient submits details, the hold converts to a confirmed booking, and both sides get confirmation.
5. Fifteen minutes before the session, a secure video link is sent by SMS and email to both parties.
6. After the consultation, the doctor issues a prescription from a template; the signed PDF lands in the patient's history.
7. Cancellations and reschedules follow the configured policy (for example, free until 4 hours before).

Tech stack:

• Python (Django/Flask) or Node.js (Express) REST backend
• PostgreSQL or MySQL with transactional booking constraints
• HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript responsive frontend
• WebRTC video provider integration for session links
• SMS/email gateway for reminders
• PDF generation library for prescriptions

• [Verified doctor discovery] Search by specialty, fee, rating and real availability — profiles show experience, consultation types and patient reviews.
• [Conflict-free slot engine] Live date-wise calendars generated from each doctor's schedule template; database constraints make double-booking impossible.
• [Video, audio & chat consults] Secure per-appointment session links delivered by SMS/email 15 minutes before the slot.
• [Digital prescriptions] Doctors issue prescriptions from medicine templates; patients get signed PDFs stored in their history.
• [Reminders & policies] Automated reminders plus configurable cancellation and rescheduling rules.
• [Doctor dashboard] Schedule management, appointment lists, earnings overview and patient notes.
• [Patient history] Every consultation, prescription and payment in one timeline the patient can revisit.

• Complete web application (patient, doctor and admin modules)
• Database schema with seed data and booking-constraint logic
• Video-session link integration wiring
• Prescription PDF generation module
• Project report PDF (architecture, schema design, booking logic)
• PPT presentation for final review
• Viva Q&A preparation document (concurrency, scheduling, WebRTC basics)

• Video sessions depend on a third-party WebRTC provider account, configured at deployment.
• The demo ships with sample doctor data; real listings need an onboarding/verification process.
• Payment collection is modeled at booking confirmation; a live gateway is integrated per order requirements.
• Prescriptions are advisory documents from the demo flow, not a certified medical-records system.
• Reminder delivery needs an SMS/email gateway account with its own billing.