Hospital timesheets still create significant friction in payroll and workforce administration. Learn why healthcare organisations are moving towards integrated rostering and timesheet workflows.
Dr Chris Jones discussing modern hospital rostering systems and the move beyond manual rostering processes
Emergency department rostering has become one of the most quietly difficult operational challenges in Australian public hospitals. What was once manageable using spreadsheets and generic workforce systems is increasingly struggling to keep pace with the reality and complexity of modern emergency care. Multiple models of care, expanding training requirements, fatigue management, fairness considerations, and constant […]
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 […]