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 […]
We at HosPortal like it when things just work in our daily challenge of managing the data associated with thousands of users, hundreds of rosters and dozens of hospitals. But our business is not populated by saints. So, as this P.J. O’Rouke quote would imply, we strive to keep our workplace data clean, and we implore all […]
This is the second in a series of reports looking at data available to hospitals and roster administrators who are using HosPortal.There is a common perception in the private hospital community that some people love to be on call, and others hate it. But how prevalent is this?The data here shows that on-call rosters are […]
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 […]
HosPortal has a distinctive insight into the various ways in which hospitals manage their rostering. The approach – and the level of cooperation from the participating doctors – is the result of a combination of factors distinctive to each hospital environment.We have seen various influences on the way on-call rostering is done in those hospitals:Tradition – […]