We are constantly surprised at how many different methods our customers use to prepare their on-call rosters. Some hospitals are extremely hands-on, with explicit rules and lots of analysis to ensure equity and balance across the shifts and users. Others are extremely laissez faire, and happy to open the roster and let market forces take […]
In the last post we noted that we do not have a rostering app.But at HosPortal we know that doctors don’t like taking ‘no’ for an answer. So if you are still desperate for app-like functions there are a few of things you can do: Subscribe to our iCal sync tool (see a previous blog post). You can […]
We occasionally get asked by users and potential customers whether we have a HosPortal rostering app. That is, the sort of thing you download onto your phone or tablet from the Apple App Store or Google Play that has a stand-alone icon on your device.We don’t.But it is a conscious decision we made which we review […]
Despite the usual New Year quiet period, we have all been pretty busy here at HosPortal.We are pleased to start the new year with our new iCal integration, which will allow users to receive automatic updates regarding their HosPortal schedule directly to their iOS or Android phone, computer or Microsoft Outlook calendar…anything that accepts an iCal […]
Chris, Charles, Seema, Georgie and the rest of the team at HosPortal would like to wish all our users, customers and partners the very best for the season.We recently prepared our 2017 benchmark report for our customers and were pleased to confirm the following activity over the last 12 months: Rostered users: 2,900 in three states Regular […]
Even the best and most robustly-designed software needs to be updated and maintained. HosPortal has recently had an interesting experience to keep ahead of the spam filters used on almost every commercial email service. Like the US Postal Service (or the Angarium, for the classically minded) we take our communications seriously.HosPortal’s outward emails are critical […]
More feedback from the self-roster season. We have had a number of discussions about how long you should allow for people to pick their shifts in a self-roster process.The answer is: two weeks.This is shorter than almost any period of time suggested by our customers when we raise this topic with them. Often roster administrators […]
As we have mentioned before, there are a bunch of hospitals going through self-rostering for 2018 now. We woke up this morning to this lovely email from a doctor who works across a half-dozen HosPortal hospitals and obviously a few others. “I view your software as superior in every way [to a competitor] and you […]
At HosPortal it is self-roster season, with many hospitals getting ready for anesthetic on-call rosters starting in February and March next year.All of our private hospitals currently underway are setting self-roster quotas based on the amount of activity done by each doctor: doctors with higher activity are given a higher requirement of on-call shifts.The challenge […]
We at HosPortal like it when things just work in our daily challenge of managing the data associated with thousands of users, hundreds of rosters and dozens of hospitals. But our business is not populated by saints. So, as this P.J. O’Rouke quote would imply, we strive to keep our workplace data clean, and we implore all […]
This is the second in a series of reports looking at data available to hospitals and roster administrators who are using HosPortal.There is a common perception in the private hospital community that some people love to be on call, and others hate it. But how prevalent is this?The data here shows that on-call rosters are […]
At HosPortal we are all pretty analytical and love a bit of data. Actually, we prefer a lot of data that we can crunch to come to some interesting conclusions…and ideally some useful ones, too. Over the next few posts we have used the reporting and export functions available to any hospital to look at various aspects […]