Hospital roster managers have long been expected to solve a highly complex problem with comparatively simple tools. Many rostering products are designed around a fixed set of scheduling rules anticipated by the vendor. Hospitals, however, do not operate within a standard set of rules. A workable roster must reconcile clinical coverage, qualifications, supervision, fatigue limits, […]
Practising anaesthetist and HosPortal founder Dr Chris Jones has released a new YouTube presentation challenging one of the most accepted practices in Australian healthcare: building hospital rosters in Excel. Drawing on more than two decades of clinical and workforce management experience, he explains why manual rostering can consume far more clinical and operational time than […]
HosPortal has announced the release of its new AI Assistant, introducing conversational AI directly into hospital workforce management and changing the way hospital workforce administrators interact with rostering software. Rather than navigating multiple screens, searching menus or remembering where infrequently used functions are located, administrators can now simply ask the system what they need using […]
If you work across more than one hospital, you already know the drill. Each site has its own portal. Each portal has its own login. Somewhere between the rostering system, the pathology results, the email, the parking app and your personal accounts, you’ve ended up with the same two or three passwords doing the work […]
Regular readers would know that we have long defended the fact that we do not need a standalone iOS or Android app: our responsive web pages work perfectly on any device and look and behave like an app if you want, including the ability to call and text colleagues directly from your screen. This approach […]
HosPortal is demonstrating at the Emergency Medicine and Radiology conferences in the next few weeks. Come see us!
HosPortal was present at the 2024 RACMA conference where we demonstrated our leading medical rostering software
Release 31 focuses on further enhancements to self-rostering and work rules.
There is a new law affecting our ability to send SMS messages. You may want to take action.
A quiet moment at our stand… We want you! A quick update from Wellington where Charles and Chris are showing off HosPortal’s leading rostering and clinical allocations functions to New Zealand and Australian anaesthetists at CSC2022. We have had good feedback from some potential users, and even better feedback from current users who have come […]