HosPortal already has one of the most sophisticated tools for managing clinical and non-clinical allocations in a hospital environment, for instance to schedule staff to operating rooms, clinics and managerial activities. For a long time our customers have been able to generate recurring staffing templates, specify doctor types and skill-sets for particular activities, or the […]
HosPortal has some self-rostering features that make it distinctive in the medical and hospital environment. All our private hospital customers, and some of our public hospitals, use variations of the self-roster process to allow them to populate rosters with minimum administrative overhead.Features include abilities to easily and quickly: set rules for each type of doctor […]
We are always keen to refine HosPortal to respond to user requests and to make our functions more efficient. We have a number of these in the pipeline to be launched in the coming weeks. Detailed SMS tracking We get very few help desk queries. Of those we do get, one of the most common […]
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, […]
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 […]
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). You can […]
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. […]
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 […]