Best Practice

HosPortal tries to avoid some of the frustrating mistakes of the largest software companies.

Now your biggest rostering challenge is what to do with your free time…

You might be aware that HosPortal is currently looking for a business development manager to help us make use of the massive list of inbound sales enquiries. We have previously used recruiters and various websites to help us find staff and all of them have frustrations and pitfalls. Finding one that is fit for purpose […]

The challenges of making technology more powerful can be at the cost of making it less useful.

It has been a very long time between posts. We are very sorry to all the avid fans of the HosPortal blog (hi, Mum!) who have been waiting for more compelling content to digest during lockdown. But this really has been worth the wait. Trust us. The focus of the entire team has been to […]

With increased prevalence of the Delta strain of Covid in Australia, we have seen a recent uptick of interest in Covid-related rosters. Some of them are increasing the number of doctors and health professionals who are on call, some to staff ICU departments with a greater number of anaesthetists, and some creating altogether new medical […]

We are in the middle of the annual self-roster rush, when private hospitals get ready for filling the shifts in their rosters for the coming year. As usual there are debates about how to calculate and allocate fair quotas and what is reasonable timing. Any time there are even minor changes suggested – by us, […]

Here at HosPortal we are well into the final stages of our completely rebuilt medical rostering software. It will still be familiar to existing user, but will also have powerful new features. When we selected and designed these features we have been very conscious of usability and incorporating features that our users will value. It […]

Some weeks ago HosPortal participated in a live panel discussion for the Talking HealthTech podcast, hosted by Peter Birch, and supported by HosPortal’s landlord Hub Hyde Park. This was an opportunity for an audience of around 50-60 people to hear first-hand from a panel of four health technology leaders, moderated by Peter, talking about all […]

HosPortal was delighted to be invited to a panel discussion about health technology. The panel was moderated by Peter Birch, the host of the Talking HealthTech podcast.The panel included representatives from businesses that also occupy HosPortal’s office building: Manuri Gunawardena, the Founder and CEO of HealthMatch, Melissa Webster, the Founder and CEO of Sleepfit, and […]