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 […]
It has been a busy – some might say intense – time over the last month at HosPortal. The traditional Australian holiday season, when even ambitious software entrepreneurs like to put their feet up and spend time with family and friends, coincided with a swag of new and exciting customers and early-in-the-new-year deadlines.Adding to the […]
We have previously written about how hard it is to fully automate the process of generating and maintaining rosters. We recently had an illustrative example.One of our private hospital customers had an issue – for various reasons – where some shifts became unfilled over the Christmas and New Year period. As anyone involved in medical rostering in […]
The fact that this blog has been quiet over the last month hides the fact that we have been extremely busy with new and potential customers from across Australia and New Zealand. We hope to provide more updates on some of these new roster customers in the coming weeks.One we can now announce is that […]
HosPortal is on a roll. We are delighted to announce that we have added Royal Prince Alfred Hospital to the growing family of customers who use our rostering software.RPA is one of Australia’s largest and most prestigious teaching hospitals, with over 1,000 beds. We look forward to assisting to manage the rosters and allocations of one of […]
We are delighted to confirm that we have added another significant private hospital to our medical rostering network: Westmead Private Hospital, part of the Ramsay Health Care group, will be using HosPortal for its anaesthetist on-call rosters.By replacing an incumbent roster provider we believe we have demonstrated that a specialist medical roster software will be better […]
HosPortal is in the midst of a major upgrade. More exciting features will be released over the coming months. These are in response to customer demand and to stay ahead of any other product in the A/NZ market. We also have good data that says we are better than any international competitor for Australian hospitals.But […]
We are always keen to refine HosPortal to respond to user requests and to make our functions more efficient. We have a number of these in the pipeline to be launched in the coming weeks. Detailed SMS tracking We get very few help desk queries. Of those we do get, one of the most common […]
We recently surveyed all our senior doctors about their experience with using our software for their rostering. We were very pleased with the positive results.We also had some constructive comments that we have folded into our future development pipeline. Look forward to further enhancements in the coming months. Great overall experience 76% of our respondents […]
Chris and Charles have set up at the ASA National Scientific Congress in Adelaide. Come and pop in to booth 3 if you happen to be in the area to say hello, see a demonstration of our Roster or patient survey software, or grab one of our surgical caps (which we must say are a […]