Just as we did not think we would draw links between medical and healthcare rostering and domestic appliances, we had not really contemplated the link between good software design and Covid vaccination rates. Until this week. This week’s news is all about Australia’s lagging vaccination rates*. It appears it may not all be the fault […]
Despite years of experience with our leading healthcare and medical rostering software, getting the design of our soon-to-be launched upgrade is not easy. Partly because our new software will be considerably more powerful than the current version (so a core question is how to introduce new features without making them too confusing for users). And […]
There has been an interesting debate between HosPortal healthcare scheduling software and customers recently about the merits of various security enhancements and privacy controls. We are aware that many of our customers want their data stored in Australia. This has been available for an additional fee (due to costs related to some of the aspects […]
HosPortal healthcare scheduling software has worked recently with some customers and their doctors to assist with their COVID-19 responses. These have involved both our class-leading medical rostering software and our medical-grade survey tool. Please get in touch if you or your facility need assistance with any of the following: setting up new rosters tracking volunteers for on-call […]
In addition to making use of our SMS and email functions (see our prior blogpost), customers should be considering some other ways that HosPortal can assist manage doctors and other staff during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some features that might be useful include: HosPortal’s Documents feature, to store and share protocols, updates and other documents between […]
HosPortal loves to listen to good podcasts. And about 21 minutes and 50 seconds into a recent episode of the Cautionary Tales podcast we saw some insight into the parallels between good design of nuclear reactors, Oscar award envelope logistics, and HosPortal’s shift-swap and shift-splitting features. We are often asked whether we have a mechanism […]
While we were demonstrating our rostering software to the Australian and New Zealand psychiatrists at the RANZCP conference in Cairns last week we discovered a short but excellent book about design. Unusually, it was about toilets.One of our fellow exhibitors was advocating for dementia patients, and they had a short, 35-page booklet all about designing […]
Every year or so we look at our activity metrics to see how things are changing. We have recently done this and were pleasantly reassured that our growth is also reflected in a range of metrics across the business. See the graphic here representing activity in 2018, and how it compares to the year before.Interestingly, […]
One of the questions that we don’t actually get asked, but we have strong views on, is how many people should be on the roster. Who is on the roster? In most private hospitals, anyone who is accredited to work at the hospital is asked to do a minimum number of on-call shifts.The core group […]
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 […]