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HosPortal’s powerful roster administrative and workflow functions

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 […]

With Covid-19 we are all more familiar with QR codes: every time we go to a cafe or enter a shop you can register your attendance by a 10-second scan of the QR code and entering your details.You may not be surprised to know that HosPortal healthcare scheduling software was there first with an even […]

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, […]

Cartoon by Dr Michelle Au from her actually quite awesome website http://theunderweardrawer.blogspot.com/ HosPortal healthcare scheduling software is increasingly in demand for managing physicians and general medicine rosters. A feature about these rosters is that there a lot of them in any one hospital, and they often have particular staffing needs. In response, HosPortal has made […]

We have seen some evidence in Australia that hospitals are starting to see the light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel. We are getting  a spike in inbound sales enquiries. And it appears that – with the hectic pre-COVID planning mostly out of the road – doctors actually have some time to think again: […]

We have had a number of queries recently from customers seeking to set up short-term medical rosters for their doctors: create, populate and manage rosters that are just for COVID-19 or peripheral activities. These are less structured than would be appropriate for self-rostering.A feature in HosPortal healthcare scheduling software that might be particularly useful is […]

About 12 months ago we developed ‘skills’ that can be optionally applied to each user’s profile, and used to set defaults for clinical allocations. This was originally designed for a radiology customer, where radiologists may have one of a dozen different additional sub-specialities.We are pleased to see that many of our customers have found this […]

Many of HosPortal’s rostering customers use our powerful meeting planning (‘Event’) features. You can plan and book regular and ad hoc meetings, and each event appears in invitees’ calendars. Each event can record attendance and have CPD (Continuing Professional Development) points attached to them for later reporting: attendees do not need to track them by themselves. […]

We are delighted to announce that we now have a preference-based rostering tool that will suit the specific needs of physicians, surgeons and other craft groups. ‘Selection rostering’ vs ‘Preference rostering’ Our selection-based rostering has been active for some years and is loved by the craft groups that use it to fill rosters extremely quickly […]