HosPortal is pleased to welcome aboard the physicians of Royal Darwin Hospital and Palmerston Regional Hospital. This means that HosPortal now has all the major hospitals in the Northern Territory. We look forward to working with the Darwin clinical and administrative teams to have them up and running quickly.
We are delighted to welcome Perth Children’s Hospital to HosPortal. This is our first customer in Western Australia and an important part of our national expansion. One minor interesting features of the roster are that all the clinical allocations are ‘unallocated’, so need to be staffed each time the roster is published without any template […]
In a recent blogpost we noted that we had built some custom features for an existing customer, who is even more satisfied now than they were before we met their additional needs.The genesis of the features was to allow users to amend their own shift times, for instance to record overtime, and attach an overtime […]
We have seen some evidence in Australia that hospitals are starting to see the light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel. We are getting a spike in inbound sales enquiries. And it appears that – with the hectic pre-COVID planning mostly out of the road – doctors actually have some time to think again: […]
HosPortal healthcare scheduling software has worked recently with some customers and their doctors to assist with their COVID-19 responses. These have involved both our class-leading medical rostering software and our medical-grade survey tool. Please get in touch if you or your facility need assistance with any of the following: setting up new rosters tracking volunteers for on-call […]
In addition to making use of our SMS and email functions (see our prior blogpost), customers should be considering some other ways that HosPortal can assist manage doctors and other staff during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some features that might be useful include: HosPortal’s Documents feature, to store and share protocols, updates and other documents between […]
We are all excited to announce that HosPortal is now a global company. We secured our first overseas customer for our world-leading medical rostering product, in New Zealand. It is also only our second non-hospital user. More details about both topics in future blogposts.An interesting feature of our international expansion is how we have made […]
We have had to lift our game since the RACMA conference, with a bunch of roster and patient survey sales leads keeping us all very busy. Apart from demonstrations and video conferences we have also been keeping the developers busy with a myriad of small changes. You might want to check out the following. You […]
We are delighted to announce that we now have a preference-based rostering tool that will suit the specific needs of physicians, surgeons and other craft groups. ‘Selection rostering’ vs ‘Preference rostering’ Our selection-based rostering has been active for some years and is loved by the craft groups that use it to fill rosters extremely quickly […]
HosPortal has had a long-standing aversion to try to fully automate rostering. We know this is all the trend in the USA, but we have been concerned that the complexities of the rosters in any real hospital mean that having a system to manage it also requires hiring a quantitative analyst to manage the system!Since […]