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 […]
We are delighted to confirm that we have added another significant private hospital to our medical rostering network: Westmead Private Hospital, part of the Ramsay Health Care group, will be using HosPortal for its anaesthetist on-call rosters.By replacing an incumbent roster provider we believe we have demonstrated that a specialist medical roster software will be better […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
At HosPortal it is self-roster season, with many hospitals getting ready for anesthetic on-call rosters starting in February and March next year.All of our private hospitals currently underway are setting self-roster quotas based on the amount of activity done by each doctor: doctors with higher activity are given a higher requirement of on-call shifts.The challenge […]
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 […]
Once you have set the roster start date (see earlier post), you need to prepare properly: rushing a self-roster process results in bad roster outcomes and unhappy administrators and doctors.You should start your planning a few months before the first shift is scheduled to commence. The timeline that seems to work best for our customers […]
One of the questions we get asked quite often is “What happens to my shift quota when I give my shift to another doctor?”The simple answer is that you keep the quota, but you can now elect to give it away.To explain: in many hospitals, on-call shifts are selected by users using a quota system. […]