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 […]
At HosPortal we keep our eyes and ears out for what is going on with other software providers and the marketplace for medical scheduling software. This allows us to stay at the leading edge of thinking for our future product releases, and help us work out how we can be of value to even more […]
HosPortal is having great success in expanding our rostering to the non-anaesthetic craft groups, such as physicians, surgeons and radiologists (see last blog post). The organisational change challenge But the issues of growing to new customers are not always technical, as our earlier radiology example explained. Some are behavioural: how to get doctors to use […]
HosPortal is distinctive in serving Australian anaesthetists for their rostering and on-call needs, with over 25 anaesthetic departments at some of the country’s largest hospitals. But we are also growing in other exciting areas, too.In the next couple of blog posts we talk about some of our new business outside anaesthetics. Radiologist rostering We have […]
We have mentioned in a couple of earlier blogs that we are having a really successful time demonstrating at the ANZCA and RACS conferences. A surgery fashion statement Our branded surgical caps have been particularly popular. You are welcome to pick up one of our mens’ (tie-back) or womens’ (elastic-back) caps if you come and visit our […]
HosPortal is demonstrating at the ANZCA (anaesthetists) and RACS (surgeons) conferences this week in Sydney.We have been overwhelmed by the positive interest from potential new customers. In the first two days we have had interest from a dozen hospitals across five Australian states and New Zealand. This includes a couple of really large public hospitals, and an […]
We know that a finance team sometimes needs more convincing than the doctors who use our system. In November we wrote a blog post about our spreadsheet template that potential customers can use to assess costs and benefits for HosPortal for their own hospitals. We have now refined it further to make it even better […]
One of the things we exercise our minds about quite a lot at HosPortal is how to make our rostering and communications software as intuitive as possible for our users. This is not that easy. Roster administration for different users We actually have at least two sets of users, being doctors (narrowly-skilled and time-poor) and […]
It is rare that HosPortal gets to demonstrate to the hospital bean-counters. Recently we had a pre-sales demonstration at a public hospital where everyone was invited: doctors, heads of department, nurse administrators and the head of finance.The doctors and roster administrators were really impressed, which is what we have come to expect.But we also received […]
HosPortal is designed so that it can be the single point to manage both the on-call roster (generate the roster, manage changes), and the process of call-backs (who is on call right now, and how do I contact them?). For the latter, HosPortal has a powerful ‘Notify’ function that many hospitals are not using to […]