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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
We are always looking at ways to improve the performance of HosPortal’ s rostering software to make the experience better for all our users. As we get larger and manage more rosters (see our last blog post) the pressure is always on to make our software faster. We have recently undertaken a review of all […]
We have been talking for a while now about a new software offering designed to allow healthcare professionals to survey their patients, for instance to gather for pre- and post-operative clinical data, or feedback on patient experience. Our completely re-built offering, Connect, is now live. See more information here.Jan, Terry, Ben and the team have been pushing […]
HosPortal already has one of the most sophisticated tools for managing clinical and non-clinical allocations in a hospital environment, for instance to schedule staff to operating rooms, clinics and managerial activities. For a long time our customers have been able to generate recurring staffing templates, specify doctor types and skill-sets for particular activities, or the […]
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 […]
We have recently had some great feedback on the usability of HosPortal. Our user interface is easy and intuitive to use We also recently demonstrated to a potential business partner who has reviewed almost all the doctor rostering and physician scheduling software globally. His immediate feedback was that HosPortal’s user interface was remarkable for its […]
One of the things we exercise our minds about quite a lot at HosPortal is how to make our rostering and communications software as intuitive as possible for our users. This is not that easy. Roster administration for different users We actually have at least two sets of users, being doctors (narrowly-skilled and time-poor) and […]