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 […]
HosPortal is proud to be exhibiting at the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists in Cairns, Queensland, this week, 13-16 May 2019. Come and visit us at Stand 1 if you are in the area to see how we can manage psychiatry on-call rosters and clinical allocations at your facilities. The league table […]
We are always looking at ways to improve the performance of HosPortal’ s rostering software to make the experience better for all our users. As we get larger and manage more rosters (see our last blog post) the pressure is always on to make our software faster. We have recently undertaken a review of all […]
Every year or so we look at our activity metrics to see how things are changing. We have recently done this and were pleasantly reassured that our growth is also reflected in a range of metrics across the business. See the graphic here representing activity in 2018, and how it compares to the year before.Interestingly, […]
Our founder was interviewed a while back by the team at Doctorpreneurs, a site dedicated to doctors who are also building interesting businesses.If you are interested in how Chris got involved in software (and some of the formative elements of his upbringing that inform his approach to business and software development today), you can read […]
HosPortal will be exhibiting at Australian Healthcare Week 2019 being held at the International Convention Centre in Sydney on 27 and 28 March 2019.If you come to visit you can review our products, meet the people behind the scenes, and provide us with feedback. Australia’s leading rostering tools for hospitals Get a demo of Australia’s leading rostering […]
We have been talking for a while now about a new software offering designed to allow healthcare professionals to survey their patients, for instance to gather for pre- and post-operative clinical data, or feedback on patient experience. Our completely re-built offering, Connect, is now live. See more information here.Jan, Terry, Ben and the team have been pushing […]
We are always looking for ways to improve our rostering and patient survey software offerings. Whether it be enhancements requested by existing customers, or features required by potential customers before we can win their business, we spend a fair bit of time reviewing these things and implementing what we can.One thing we always focus on […]
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 […]
One of the questions that we don’t actually get asked, but we have strong views on, is how many people should be on the roster. Who is on the roster? In most private hospitals, anyone who is accredited to work at the hospital is asked to do a minimum number of on-call shifts.The core group […]
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 […]
There is a lot of work going on in the development team. In addition to the enhancements to our current rostering software, and plans for a substantial and exciting rebuild over the next 12 months, we are also pushing hard on Connect, our tool designed for doctors to send pre- and post-intervention surveys easily, safely and […]