A common part of HosPortal’s sales discussion involves how to justify the benefits of improved rostering to the hospital bean-counters. The summary is that HosPortal can save you a lot, but the more complete answer is that it depends on your own hospital environment, and what you value in addition to time savings.Being the analytical […]
In short: Introducing self-rostering takes about four months of preparation: clean up the accreditation list, agree exemptions, decide the activity measure behind quotas, set the rules, then open the window. This post lays out that timeline month by month. It was written in 2017 for private-hospital on-call rosters and the sequence has held up for […]
In short: When you give away or swap a shift in a self-roster you keep your quota by default: you have met your obligation and are no more likely to be picked for vacancies. You can choose to gift the quota with the shift as an incentive. This post explains how quotas, gifting and the […]
The team at HosPortal often reflects on good design. Recent discussion includes why, after about 5,000 years of design refinement across the globe, you can still buy teapots that drip when you pour them.But of all topics, nothing gets us more passionate than seeing both good and bad software design. We do not always get […]
In short: For most hospitals a twelve-month roster period starting in February or March works best, because it gives everyone notice of the Christmas season. Departments with high turnover or changing quotas do better with rolling three- or six-month periods finalised three months ahead. This post explains the trade-offs. If you are a private hospital […]
Did you know there are many things you can do within your profile settings that can make your life easier and more productive? All with a few clicks of the mouse.By clicking on your own name at the right of the menu bar, you get the wonderful profile menu that looks a bit like the […]
In short: Hospitals roster in three broad ways, manual allocation, self-rostering and preference-based rostering, and which one works depends on tradition, how doctors are paid, the resources behind the roster, and who runs it. This post sets out those influences so a department can choose deliberately rather than by habit. HosPortal supports all three and […]
We are delighted to announce that we are now serving Tennant Creek Hospital as a customer, with pretty much all the hospital doctors enrolled. It was one of HosPortal’s quickest sales and followed an in-bound phone call from Dr Priyantha (‘PD’) Wijesurendra that could be summarised in full as ‘Help!’Tennant Creek has several challenges including […]