One of the questions we get asked quite often is “What happens to my shift quota when I give my shift to another doctor?”The simple answer is that you keep the quota, but you can now elect to give it away.To explain: in many hospitals, on-call shifts are selected by users using a quota system. […]
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 […]
If you are a private hospital and considering your next self-roster process, or a public hospital and have on-call shifts that would be easier to do through self-roster, then we at HosPortal have some good insight on best practices. We will post some of these over the coming weeks.For this post, we will focus on […]
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 […]
HosPortal has a distinctive insight into the various ways in which hospitals manage their rostering. The approach – and the level of cooperation from the participating doctors – is the result of a combination of factors distinctive to each hospital environment.We have seen various influences on the way on-call rostering is done in those hospitals:Tradition – […]
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 […]