Blog & News

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

Getting the best out of HosPortal Roster during COVID-19

March 17, 2020

In addition to making use of our SMS and email functions (see our prior blogpost), customers should be considering some other ways that HosPortal can assist manage doctors and other staff during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some features that might be useful include: HosPortal’s Documents feature, to store and share protocols, updates and other documents between […]

COVID-19 response: SMS for all customers

March 16, 2020

In response to the developing COVID-19 outbreak, HosPortal has today enabled SMS messaging for all our roster customers. Customers that had not previously enabled SMS messaging will get a fair use allowance of SMS for free. We hope this will make the communication with doctors easier and more efficient. We are certainly aware that customers […]

Talking HealthTech podcast – now live

March 10, 2020

Some weeks ago HosPortal participated in a live panel discussion for the Talking HealthTech podcast, hosted by Peter Birch, and supported by HosPortal’s landlord Hub Hyde Park. This was an opportunity for an audience of around 50-60 people to hear first-hand from a panel of four health technology leaders, moderated by Peter, talking about all […]

More powerful ‘skills’ feature on Roster

March 2, 2020

About 12 months ago we developed ‘skills’ that can be optionally applied to each user’s profile, and used to set defaults for clinical allocations. This was originally designed for a radiology customer, where radiologists may have one of a dozen different additional sub-specialities.We are pleased to see that many of our customers have found this […]

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 […]

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