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’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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
We have mentioned in a couple of earlier blogs that we are having a really successful time demonstrating at the ANZCA and RACS conferences. A surgery fashion statement Our branded surgical caps have been particularly popular. You are welcome to pick up one of our mens’ (tie-back) or womens’ (elastic-back) caps if you come and visit our […]
HosPortal is demonstrating at the ANZCA (anaesthetists) and RACS (surgeons) conferences this week in Sydney.We have been overwhelmed by the positive interest from potential new customers. In the first two days we have had interest from a dozen hospitals across five Australian states and New Zealand. This includes a couple of really large public hospitals, and an […]
For some time now, the team at HosPortal has been keen to address a poorly-served niche in the market for getting pre- and post-operative feedback from patients. We are glad that we are weeks away from offering our new product, HosPortal Connect.It is suitable for surgical and anaesthetic practice groups, hospitals of any size, and […]
HosPortal has always offered its staff considerable flexibility about when and where they work. It is all about getting our tasks done in the right way rather than any ‘face time’. This reflects the founders approach: their personal working styles, their other professional and family commitments, and their quite different sleeping patterns! It also reflects […]
We know that a finance team sometimes needs more convincing than the doctors who use our system. In November we wrote a blog post about our spreadsheet template that potential customers can use to assess costs and benefits for HosPortal for their own hospitals. We have now refined it further to make it even better […]
The team at HosPortal is delighted to welcome our new team member, Jan Schroeder, who has joined us as our full-time Chief Technology Officer. He comes with an impressive pedigree as a technologist and entrepreneur, and a great cultural fit with the current leadership team.We met Jan some months ago when he was running his […]
One of the things we exercise our minds about quite a lot at HosPortal is how to make our rostering and communications software as intuitive as possible for our users. This is not that easy. Roster administration for different users We actually have at least two sets of users, being doctors (narrowly-skilled and time-poor) and […]