A healthcare administration system integrates the entry of an order for a
medical service for a patient with the scheduling of an appointment for
performing the service. The system incorporates receiving service order
information for a medical service for a patient from a user; generating
an order for the medical service based upon the service order
information; and enabling the user to perform one or more tasks selected
from the group consisting of (a) scheduling an appointment with a
provider of the medical service, (b) storing the order information in a
queued waitlist, and (c) automatically rescheduling the appointment based
upon the queued waitlist.