Once you have set the roster start date (see earlier post), you need to prepare properly: rushing a self-roster process results in bad roster outcomes and unhappy administrators and doctors.You should start your planning a few months before the first shift is scheduled to commence. The timeline that seems to work best for our customers […]
One of the questions we get asked quite often is “What happens to my shift quota when I give my shift to another doctor?”The simple answer is that you keep the quota, but you can now elect to give it away.To explain: in many hospitals, on-call shifts are selected by users using a quota system. […]
The team at HosPortal often reflects on good design. Recent discussion includes why, after about 5,000 years of design refinement across the globe, you can still buy teapots that drip when you pour them.But of all topics, nothing gets us more passionate than seeing both good and bad software design. We do not always get […]
If you are a private hospital and considering your next self-roster process, or a public hospital and have on-call shifts that would be easier to do through self-roster, then we at HosPortal have some good insight on best practices. We will post some of these over the coming weeks.For this post, we will focus on […]
When HosPortal acquired Group Network is also acquired the services of the help desk administrator, Georgie Lavan. Georgie has impressed us all with her incredible work ethic, and the way she managed the never-ending seven-day stream of roster swaps and user additions and deletions for Group Network.Georgie’s role does highlight one of the major differences […]
Did you know there are many things you can do within your profile settings that can make your life easier and more productive? All with a few clicks of the mouse.By clicking on your own name at the right of the menu bar, you get the wonderful profile menu that looks a bit like the […]
HosPortal has a distinctive insight into the various ways in which hospitals manage their rostering. The approach – and the level of cooperation from the participating doctors – is the result of a combination of factors distinctive to each hospital environment.We have seen various influences on the way on-call rostering is done in those hospitals:Tradition – […]
Since acquiring Group Network’s hospital scheduling business in August, Chris, Nino and Ricardo in the technical team, and Charles and Seema in the commercial team, have all been burning the midnight oil to make sure we have a clean and trouble-free transition over to the HosPortal software.It was always the intent to decommission Group Network. […]
We are delighted to announce that we are now serving Tennant Creek Hospital as a customer, with pretty much all the hospital doctors enrolled. It was one of HosPortal’s quickest sales and followed an in-bound phone call from Dr Priyantha (‘PD’) Wijesurendra that could be summarised in full as ‘Help!’Tennant Creek has several challenges including […]
Those of you who have been watching what we are doing at HosPortal will have seen we have recently made some changes. The most obvious one to some of you will our new external website and our new logo and branding which was ably executed by Linda and the team at Fuel Creative.Part of the trigger […]
After many months of exploration and discussion, HosPortal acquired the business of Group Network in August. The new owners could not be more delighted.There are many similarities between the two business: HosPortal and Group Network have both been designed, and coded and enhanced over 10 years by anaesthetists who deeply understand what doctors require from […]