HosPortal has had a long-standing aversion to try to fully automate rostering. We know this is all the trend in the USA, but we have been concerned that the complexities of the rosters in any real hospital mean that having a system to manage it also requires hiring a quantitative analyst to manage the system!Since […]
HosPortal has been talking for some time to a major hospital group that wants to use HosPortal to create rosters after collating doctors’ preferences. More about the details of that in later blog posts…we expect it will be live in a week or so once we have finished our rigorous testing.A part of that solution […]
HosPortal has some self-rostering features that make it distinctive in the medical and hospital environment. All our private hospital customers, and some of our public hospitals, use variations of the self-roster process to allow them to populate rosters with minimum administrative overhead.Features include abilities to easily and quickly: set rules for each type of doctor […]
We have previously written about how hard it is to fully automate the process of generating and maintaining rosters. We recently had an illustrative example.One of our private hospital customers had an issue – for various reasons – where some shifts became unfilled over the Christmas and New Year period. As anyone involved in medical rostering in […]
One of the reasons HosPortal came into being was to manage the complex interactions between doctors’ leave and holidays, and the on-call and operating theatre allocations. When Chris agreed to help one of his hospitals solve this problem he did not know that he was giving birth to what would eventually be HosPortal.In recent months, […]
In an earlier post we mentioned that we have been looking at other medical rostering software (or physician scheduling software, if you are in the US).There seems to be a trend to try to make rostering easier by increasing the sophistication of the rostering algorithms and AI (artificial intelligence) that can be used to take […]