Despite years of experience with our leading healthcare and medical rostering software, getting the design of our soon-to-be launched upgrade is not easy. Partly because our new software will be considerably more powerful than the current version (so a core question is how to introduce new features without making them too confusing for users). And […]
We have mentioned before some of the new features that will be available when we launch our rebuilt healthcare roster software later this year. They are all pretty exciting, especially for the people in the team like this author who gets to play with them without having to write the software code!Some of the features […]
With Covid-19 we are all more familiar with QR codes: every time we go to a cafe or enter a shop you can register your attendance by a 10-second scan of the QR code and entering your details.You may not be surprised to know that HosPortal healthcare scheduling software was there first with an even […]
Here at HosPortal we are well into the final stages of our completely rebuilt medical rostering software. It will still be familiar to existing user, but will also have powerful new features. When we selected and designed these features we have been very conscious of usability and incorporating features that our users will value. It […]
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 […]
Our Founder and Clinical Director, the very talented Dr Chris Jones, was interviewed a few weeks back by Peter Birch for his Talking HealthTech podcast.In this short interview you can hear about how Chris started HosPortal, HosPortal’s plans for the future, and how technology has changed the way we work during Covid-19.You will also hear […]
HosPortal has been deep in the bunkers for a couple of years now with a major (and we mean MAJOR) upgrade to our rostering software. A complete ground-up rebuild that will bring the latest modern architecture, functionality and flexibility to every user’s experience. More news on the release of the new software in the coming […]
HosPortal loves to listen to good podcasts. And about 21 minutes and 50 seconds into a recent episode of the Cautionary Tales podcast we saw some insight into the parallels between good design of nuclear reactors, Oscar award envelope logistics, and HosPortal’s shift-swap and shift-splitting features. We are often asked whether we have a mechanism […]
While we were demonstrating our rostering software to the Australian and New Zealand psychiatrists at the RANZCP conference in Cairns last week we discovered a short but excellent book about design. Unusually, it was about toilets.One of our fellow exhibitors was advocating for dementia patients, and they had a short, 35-page booklet all about designing […]
It is not often we do product reviews on the HosPortal blog. Avid readers of the blog will recall our 18 June post that noted we were looking for a React developer so we can rebuild our leading rostering software to make it even better. We tested out a range of recruiting options, including proactive […]