Appointment building blocks

A high-level framework for deciding how to build your own appointment finder.

You can think of appointment finder configurations as “building blocks” to mix and match. The building blocks are: 1) provider sources and 2) data extraction methods.

We recommend using the following “building blocks” framework to prioritize and gauge the effort required to work with various providers and data extraction methods:

Vaccine appointment finder: the major technology building blocks

To extract appointment information from the above provider sources, there are several different methods that work best for providers’ particular appointment systems (e.g. custom system vs. VAMS vs. Epic).