We have had some wonderful feedback here at the ASA National Scientific Convention. On Day 1 we have had a half-dozen doctors come over to us to say how easy HosPortal is to use, how much our scheduling and rostering software has improved the operations of their hospital, and how much they value our features. […]
You will not need to be a regular user of HosPortal to notice that today we have completely revamped our website. This is not without its risks: we have been at the top of Google’s search terms for some years now with extremely minimal investment in SEO. The reasons for the update are manifold:Easier maintenance. […]
HosPortal is delighted to once again be demonstrating at the Australian Society of Anaesthetists’ National Scientific Congress (ASA NSC) in Sydney in September 2019.Anaesthestists remain the core of our user group, and we are proud of the fact that we can address the complex rostering and communications needs of this demanding craft group with our […]
We are delighted to announce that we now have a preference-based rostering tool that will suit the specific needs of physicians, surgeons and other craft groups. ‘Selection rostering’ vs ‘Preference rostering’ Our selection-based rostering has been active for some years and is loved by the craft groups that use it to fill rosters extremely quickly […]
HosPortal has had a long-standing aversion to try to fully automate rostering. We know this is all the trend in the USA, but we have been concerned that the complexities of the rosters in any real hospital mean that having a system to manage it also requires hiring a quantitative analyst to manage the system!Since […]
HosPortal has been talking for some time to a major hospital group that wants to use HosPortal to create rosters after collating doctors’ preferences. More about the details of that in later blog posts…we expect it will be live in a week or so once we have finished our rigorous testing.A part of that solution […]
HosPortal is delighted to be a Gold Sponsor at the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators (RACMA) conference in Adelaide on 2-4 October.Although RACMA is a small college, we think that the attendees are exactly the people who will get excited about our rostering and patient feedback software.If your hospital could do with some better rostering and […]
Personal data privacy and security is necessarily getting a lot of attention at the moment. Laws are becoming more stringent, with the European Union’s GDPR regulations being one of the most onerous. As its website states, “The EU General Data Protection Regulation…is the most important change in data privacy regulation in 20 years.”With this heightened attention, and […]
We recently added another hospital that wanted to manage their on-call rosters using HosPortal. This hospital was previously using another roster provider that doctors and hospital administrators were getting frustrated with.When we uploaded their users, we identified a doctor who has used HosPortal at a total of nine hospitals, about a third of all our […]
We are always trying to improve our services, features and usability. Over recent months we have designed and implemented a range of enhancements to our on-call rosters which we think our users will like: select from a wide range of alternative views that each user can customise see multiple weeks at a time on a […]
As HosPortal grows, and as we are getting more international enquiries, we occasionally get asked what our minimum technical specifications are.They are very simple. For an administrator or user/doctor to access HosPortal they need: access to the internet a modern web browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer). if there are strict controls over the hospital […]
While we were demonstrating our rostering software to the Australian and New Zealand psychiatrists at the RANZCP conference in Cairns last week we discovered a short but excellent book about design. Unusually, it was about toilets.One of our fellow exhibitors was advocating for dementia patients, and they had a short, 35-page booklet all about designing […]