HosPortal has been talking for some time to a major hospital group that wants to use HosPortal to create rosters after collating doctors’ preferences. More about the details of that in later blog posts…we expect it will be live in a week or so once we have finished our rigorous testing.A part of that solution […]
We are always trying to improve our services, features and usability. Over recent months we have designed and implemented a range of enhancements to our on-call rosters which we think our users will like: select from a wide range of alternative views that each user can customise see multiple weeks at a time on a […]
We have previously written about how hard it is to fully automate the process of generating and maintaining rosters. We recently had an illustrative example.One of our private hospital customers had an issue – for various reasons – where some shifts became unfilled over the Christmas and New Year period. As anyone involved in medical rostering in […]
We recently surveyed all our senior doctors about their experience with using our software for their rostering. We were very pleased with the positive results.We also had some constructive comments that we have folded into our future development pipeline. Look forward to further enhancements in the coming months. Great overall experience 76% of our respondents […]
We demonstrated to a large hospital recently that uses a competing doctor rostering software, and were stumped in trying to answer a question about how to link various parts of the hospital together in a consolidated view.It was not that we did not know the answer. But it took a while to understand the question. […]
In an earlier post we mentioned that we have been looking at other medical rostering software (or physician scheduling software, if you are in the US).There seems to be a trend to try to make rostering easier by increasing the sophistication of the rostering algorithms and AI (artificial intelligence) that can be used to take […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]