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, […]
We have recently had some great feedback on the usability of HosPortal. Our user interface is easy and intuitive to use We also recently demonstrated to a potential business partner who has reviewed almost all the doctor rostering and physician scheduling software globally. His immediate feedback was that HosPortal’s user interface was remarkable for its […]
In short: Cloud-based, multi-tenant rostering keeps every department’s rosters, staff and rules in one place, so conflicts between departments are visible while rosters are being built rather than after publication, and access is controlled per person rather than per database. This post explains the difference from department-by-department installations and what it means for hospital IT. […]
We are delighted to confirm that we have secured Monash Imaging, one of Australia’s largest public hospital radiology teams, as a new customer.We have worked with Monash about their special requirements related to reporting and the treatment of skills for their sub-specialties, and made some enhancements that we are pretty proud of.Welcome aboard Ronnie, Dot, Tanya […]
In short: Written in 2018, this post argued that AI in hospital rostering would fail if it tried to replace the roster administrator, because hospital rules are diverse, doctors are not interchangeable, and the AI needs maintaining. HosPortal has since built its own roster AI on exactly that principle: it applies rules the department defines […]
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 […]