While enabling patients to schedule their own appointments has proven its cost cutting potential for a number of practices, many physicians are still hesitant to purchase such software.

Reasons include:
-Physician Privacy
-Difficulty with properly customizing scheduling systems
-Lack of confidence in patients to schedule themselves properly
-Intergration between scheduling software and other office systems

Due to these obstacles, the future of self-scheduling software is still in doubt despite significant cost savings.