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 […]
This week we moved into our new, larger (and slightly fancier) offices. Through the wonders of the co-working office industry we have managed to secure a great office, with great facilities, at an ideal location for our growing team.See the photo, where Jan and Seema are taking advantage of the mid-winter sunshine here in Sydney […]
HosPortal’s health rostering software has been growing strongly in recent months, and our pipeline of new customers across Australia and internationally is as big as it has ever been.To keep up with the demand from new health and hospital customers, and to assist with the further development of HosPortal to meet international demand, we are […]
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 […]
Now that HosPortal has launched its patient survey tool, called Connect, we thought we would remind people of the ability to use surveys to earn continuing professional development (CPD) points for ongoing doctor accreditation.Below are a few examples of how Connect could assist in re-accreditation and ongoing professional development. ANZCA CPD requirements For anaesthetists, the […]
For some time now, the team at HosPortal has been keen to address a poorly-served niche in the market for getting pre- and post-operative feedback from patients. We are glad that we are weeks away from offering our new product, HosPortal Connect.It is suitable for surgical and anaesthetic practice groups, hospitals of any size, and […]
HosPortal has always offered its staff considerable flexibility about when and where they work. It is all about getting our tasks done in the right way rather than any ‘face time’. This reflects the founders approach: their personal working styles, their other professional and family commitments, and their quite different sleeping patterns! It also reflects […]
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 […]
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 […]