We recently set a new record for the time to fill an annual on-call roster: fifteen minutes. Let me write that again: 365 shifts across a 12-month roter allocated across over 200 doctors in less than 15 minutes. See ‘Hospital B’ on the chart here.Actually, we thought we’d set a record only a few hours […]
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 […]
In short: Fair theatre-list quotas come from measuring each anaesthetist’s activity and setting their on-call obligation in proportion to it. The two workable measures are scheduled sessions per cycle and actual sessions worked over a period; this post, written during the 2017 self-roster season, explains the difference and when each is fair. HosPortal now calculates […]
In short: On-call rosters are often carried by a small minority: HosPortal’s data across hospitals showed half of all on-call shifts done by about ten percent of the doctors on the roster. This post looks at what that means for accreditation decisions and fairness rules. The pattern still holds, and HosPortal’s counters and quota rules […]
At HosPortal we are all pretty analytical and love a bit of data. Actually, we prefer a lot of data that we can crunch to come to some interesting conclusions…and ideally some useful ones, too. Over the next few posts we have used the reporting and export functions available to any hospital to look at various aspects […]
A common part of HosPortal’s sales discussion involves how to justify the benefits of improved rostering to the hospital bean-counters. The summary is that HosPortal can save you a lot, but the more complete answer is that it depends on your own hospital environment, and what you value in addition to time savings.Being the analytical […]