Abstract: Methods and systems for scheduling appointments in healthcare environments are described. An example computer implemented method of automatically scheduling a medical appointment includes enabling a first device associated with a patient to communicate with a provider scheduling system and inputting a patient schedule onto the provider scheduling system. The example method includes identifying a time slot, using a computer, at which both the patient schedule and a provider schedule have an open time slot and identifying a time and a location of a first appointment proximate to the open time slot based on the patient schedule.