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 […]
HosPortal has some self-rostering features that make it distinctive in the medical and hospital environment. All our private hospital customers, and some of our public hospitals, use variations of the self-roster process to allow them to populate rosters with minimum administrative overhead.Features include abilities to easily and quickly: set rules for each type of doctor […]
It looks like the word is getting around about how our software reduces cost and risk for rostering doctors. We have now getting lots more enquiries, and have to do a few demonstrations each month to potential customers. So far we do not seem to have lost a head-to-head pitch against a competitor.Generally we prefer […]
One of the reasons HosPortal came into being was to manage the complex interactions between doctors’ leave and holidays, and the on-call and operating theatre allocations. When Chris agreed to help one of his hospitals solve this problem he did not know that he was giving birth to what would eventually be HosPortal.In recent months, […]
For some time now, the team at HosPortal has been keen to address a poorly-served niche in the market for getting pre- and post-operative feedback from patients. We are glad that we are weeks away from offering our new product, HosPortal Connect.It is suitable for surgical and anaesthetic practice groups, hospitals of any size, and […]
We recently had an enquiry from a potential customer that caused us to re-commission automated rostering functions that we had turned off because they were not being used. We think these functions could drive incredible efficiency when generating rosters.Many users already use self-rostering, which is simple and efficient. You can create and communicate a complete annual […]
In the last post we noted that we do not have a rostering app. But at HosPortal we know that doctors don’t like taking ‘no’ for an answer. So if you are still desperate for app-like functions there are a few of things you can do: Subscribe to our iCal sync tool (see a previous blog post). […]
We occasionally get asked by users and potential customers whether we have a HosPortal rostering app. That is, the sort of thing you download onto your phone or tablet from the Apple App Store or Google Play that has a stand-alone icon on your device.We don’t.But it is a conscious decision we made which we review […]
Despite the usual New Year quiet period, we have all been pretty busy here at HosPortal.We are pleased to start the new year with our new iCal integration, which will allow users to receive automatic updates regarding their HosPortal schedule directly to their iOS or Android phone, computer or Microsoft Outlook calendar…anything that accepts an iCal […]