Guides to medical rostering

Plain-language guides to medical rostering for hospital departments in Australia and New Zealand: what the problems are, how they are solved, and how HosPortal approaches each. Start with the buyer’s guide if you are evaluating software, or the FAQ if you have a specific question.

• Frequently asked questions: Pricing, security, features, implementation and support, answered plainly.
• How to choose medical rostering software: Fourteen questions to ask any provider, and what a good answer looks like.
• On-call roster software for hospitals: Tiers, post-call rest, fairness counters, swaps and cover.
• Self-rostering software for doctors: Selection and preference models, quotas, block-outs and an AI finish.
• Junior doctor rostering: terms and rotations: Terms as first-class objects, term preferences, fatigue rules and supervision.
• Theatre list allocation for anaesthesia and surgery: Skills per list, supervision, quotas by session.
• AI roster generator for hospital departments: How the constraint solver works, what it needs, and what it costs.
• Fatigue and award rules in hospital rosters: The rules a roster must hold and how they are enforced at build time.

Case studies from Royal Hobart Hospital, Maitland Hospital’s emergency department and a large JMO unit show the guides in practice, and the Help Centre covers how to use the product itself.