Blog & News

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

Product reviews – recruiting websites

September 5, 2018

It is not often we do product reviews on the HosPortal blog. Avid readers of the blog will recall our 18 June post that noted we were looking for a React developer so we can rebuild our leading rostering software to make it even better. We tested out a range of recruiting options, including proactive […]

New leave functions

August 21, 2018

One of the reasons HosPortal came into being was to manage the complex interactions between doctors’ leave and holidays, and the on-call and operating theatre allocations. When Chris agreed to help one of his hospitals solve this problem he did not know that he was giving birth to what would eventually be HosPortal.In recent months, […]

Great feedback on our design and usability

August 17, 2018

We have recently had some great feedback on the usability of HosPortal. Our user interface is easy and intuitive to use We also recently demonstrated to a potential business partner who has reviewed almost all the doctor rostering and physician scheduling software globally. His immediate feedback was that HosPortal’s user interface was remarkable for its […]

Cloud versus on-premise hospital rostering: what changes for IT and clinicians

September 20, 2026

In short: Cloud-based, multi-tenant rostering keeps every department’s rosters, staff and rules in one place, so conflicts between departments are visible while rosters are being built rather than after publication, and access is controlled per person rather than per database. This post explains the difference from department-by-department installations and what it means for hospital IT. […]

Welcome to Monash Imaging

July 13, 2018

We are delighted to confirm that we have secured Monash Imaging, one of Australia’s largest public hospital radiology teams, as a new customer.We have worked with Monash about their special requirements related to reporting and the treatment of skills for their sub-specialties, and made some enhancements that we are pretty proud of.Welcome aboard Ronnie, Dot, Tanya […]

Will AI replace the hospital roster administrator?

September 20, 2026

In short: Written in 2018, this post argued that AI in hospital rostering would fail if it tried to replace the roster administrator, because hospital rules are diverse, doctors are not interchangeable, and the AI needs maintaining. HosPortal has since built its own roster AI on exactly that principle: it applies rules the department defines […]

HosPortal is growing again

July 5, 2018

This week we moved into our new, larger (and slightly fancier) offices. Through the wonders of the co-working office industry we have managed to secure a great office, with great facilities, at an ideal location for our growing team.See the photo, where Jan and Seema are taking advantage of the mid-winter sunshine here in Sydney […]

Reflections on the market – where is everyone?

July 4, 2018

At HosPortal we keep our eyes and ears out for what is going on with other software providers and the marketplace for medical scheduling software. This allows us to stay at the leading edge of thinking for our future product releases, and help us work out how we can be of value to even more […]

HosPortal is hiring – React developer wanted

June 18, 2018

HosPortal’s health rostering software has been growing strongly in recent months, and our pipeline of new customers across Australia and internationally is as big as it has ever been.To keep up with the demand from new health and hospital customers, and to assist with the further development of HosPortal to meet international demand, we are […]

New health roster customers (2): surgeons

June 11, 2018

HosPortal is having great success in expanding our rostering to the non-anaesthetic craft groups, such as physicians, surgeons and radiologists (see last blog post). The organisational change challenge But the issues of growing to new customers are not always technical, as our earlier radiology example explained. Some are behavioural: how to get doctors to use […]

New health roster customers (1): radiologists

June 8, 2018

HosPortal is distinctive in serving Australian anaesthetists for their rostering and on-call needs, with over 25 anaesthetic departments at some of the country’s largest hospitals. But we are also growing in other exciting areas, too.In the next couple of blog posts we talk about some of our new business outside anaesthetics. Radiologist rostering We have […]

Earning CPD points through patient surveys

May 30, 2018

Now that HosPortal has launched its patient survey tool, called Connect, we thought we would remind people of the ability to use surveys to earn continuing professional development (CPD) points for ongoing doctor accreditation.Below are a few examples of how Connect could assist in re-accreditation and ongoing professional development. ANZCA CPD requirements For anaesthetists, the […]

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