In short: A business case built with a medium-sized hospital group found the benefits of HosPortal fell into four areas: administrative efficiency (roster management time down by over 90 percent), better outcomes for doctors, reduced clinical and compliance risk, and faster cover of vacant shifts. This post summarises that analysis; HosPortal can share the underlying […]
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 […]
HosPortal is used for rostering and communications by anaesthetists, surgeons, physicians, emergency doctors and nurses. But because the business started with anaesthetists, and was founded by an anaesthetist, we have a particular soft-spot for the doctors who pass gas. And we know that our snooze-maker colleagues love the improvements we bring to their hospitals.So we […]
We recently set a new record for the time to fill an annual on-call roster: fifteen minutes. Let me write that again: 365 shifts across a 12-month roter allocated across over 200 doctors in less than 15 minutes. See ‘Hospital B’ on the chart here.Actually, we thought we’d set a record only a few hours […]
HosPortal is delighted to welcome our new administration and support executive, Eliza Scott. She has the unenviable task of keeping the management team in order and on track at our weekly meetings and keeping everyone on top of their ever-growing to-do lists.Eliza also has the more satisfying task of looking after our customers and the […]
In short: Availability-based rostering is a middle path between self-rostering and manual allocation: doctors mark every shift they could work, without racing for the best ones, and the administrator or the roster builder then allocates for fairness and suitability. This post explains the steps and when a department should prefer it over first-pick self-rostering. We […]
We are constantly surprised at how many different methods our customers use to prepare their on-call rosters. Some hospitals are extremely hands-on, with explicit rules and lots of analysis to ensure equity and balance across the shifts and users. Others are extremely laissez faire, and happy to open the roster and let market forces take […]
In the last post we noted that we do not have a rostering app. But at HosPortal we know that doctors don’t like taking ‘no’ for an answer. So if you are still desperate for app-like functions there are a few of things you can do: Subscribe to our iCal sync tool (see a previous blog post). […]