Blog & News

Keep up to date with what’s happening in HosPortal and the world of rostering.

Developments in health technology

February 27, 2020

HosPortal was delighted to be invited to a panel discussion about health technology. The panel was moderated by Peter Birch, the host of the Talking HealthTech podcast.The panel included representatives from businesses that also occupy HosPortal’s office building: Manuri Gunawardena, the Founder and CEO of HealthMatch, Melissa Webster, the Founder and CEO of Sleepfit, and […]

Earning CPD points using Connect

February 4, 2020

HosPortal has been marketing our patient survey software, Connect, for a few months now. One of the areas that is getting good interest is capturing patient feedback to secure training points for ongoing professional accreditation through ‘CPD’ or Continuing Professional Development. You can see some of our thoughts in a previous blogpost here.We have found […]

Connect patient survey software at Australian Society of Anaesthetists

January 25, 2020

We are pleased to confirm that the Australian Society of Anaethetists (ASA) now makes HosPortal’s Connect patient survey software available on its website. A direct link, accessible only to ASA members, is here: https://asa.org.au/independent-resources/Connect is specifically designed for doctors to collect feedback from patients. Its features include: data security, including encryption and access controls, that […]

New customers, new needs…and new features

January 20, 2020

We are delighted to announce that we have secured the rostering for two private hospitals in Geelong, Victoria: Epworth and St John of God. Because Geelong is a medium-sized regional centre, the hospitals, which are otherwise competitors, have a particular issue of managing both anaesthetic on-call rosters together. This has required us to add some […]

Happy new year

January 7, 2020

HosPortal would like to wish all our customers a happy new year. It has been a busy time for us here: four new rostering customers, to bring our total to about 35 (depending on how you count them). So a material step up in number of customers in a short period. And some interesting new […]

HosPortal goes global. Kia ora!

December 16, 2019

We are all excited to announce that HosPortal is now a global company. We secured our first overseas customer for our world-leading medical rostering product, in New Zealand. It is also only our second non-hospital user. More details about both topics in future blogposts.An interesting feature of our international expansion is how we have made […]

Shifts in La La Land: nuclear meltdowns, Oscar awards…and HosPortal design

November 25, 2019

HosPortal loves to listen to good podcasts. And about 21 minutes and 50 seconds into a recent episode of the Cautionary Tales podcast we saw some insight into the parallels between good design of nuclear reactors, Oscar award envelope logistics, and HosPortal’s shift-swap and shift-splitting features. We are often asked whether we have a mechanism […]

Welcome to our new developer, JC

November 18, 2019

We are excited to welcome our new developer Christoper (‘JC’) to the team. JC is helping with our back-end development at the same time as studying for his Masters of Information Technology majoring in Cybersecurity.JC has previously had ten years’ experience in software development, in particular in building government-sponsored software to manage tax and rates […]

Tracking meeting attendance with QR codes

November 13, 2019

Many of HosPortal’s rostering customers use our powerful meeting planning (‘Event’) features. You can plan and book regular and ad hoc meetings, and each event appears in invitees’ calendars. Each event can record attendance and have CPD (Continuing Professional Development) points attached to them for later reporting: attendees do not need to track them by themselves. […]

More new features

November 4, 2019

We have had to lift our game since the RACMA conference, with a bunch of roster and patient survey sales leads keeping us all very busy. Apart from demonstrations and video conferences we have also been keeping the developers busy with a myriad of small changes. You might want to check out the following. You […]

Good feedback from RACMA Day One

October 3, 2019

HosPortal is a Gold Sponsor of the Royal Australian College of Medical Administrators (RACMA) conference in Adelaide this week. We have had a very strong interest at our stand. RACMA members need to be qualified doctors, but they also have an interest in the efficient operation of hospitals…this is exactly the combination of skills and […]

Feedback on Connect, our patient survey software

September 27, 2019

While we were at the ASA conference in Sydney last week we were not only demonstrating our Roster software, but also Connect, our relatively new patient pre-operative and post-operative survey software. We are glad to see that there is a great deal of interest, and the feedback has been extremely positive regarding Connect’s flexibility, ease […]

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