Software design

Which of these buttons would you press first?

May 21, 2021

Just as we did not think we would draw links between medical and healthcare rostering and domestic appliances, we had not really contemplated the link between good software design and Covid vaccination rates. Until this week. This week’s news is all about Australia’s lagging vaccination rates*. It appears it may not all be the fault […]

We are STILL hiring!

May 10, 2021

Australia’s leading medical rostering software is once again looking for developers to assist with the final stages of the rebuild of our exciting new rostering products. We are looking for an employee and possibly multiple contractors to focus primarily on our back-end development. Applicants need to be experienced in Node.js, PostgreSQL and Typescript. We have […]

The colours you need (but maybe not the colours you want)

May 4, 2021

Despite years of experience with our leading healthcare and medical rostering software, getting the design of our soon-to-be launched upgrade is not easy. Partly because our new software will be considerably more powerful than the current version (so a core question is how to introduce new features without making them too confusing for users). And […]

Teaser for new features

March 12, 2021

We have mentioned before some of the new features that will be available when we launch our rebuilt healthcare roster software later this year. They are all pretty exciting, especially for the people in the team like this author who gets to play with them without having to write the software code!Some of the features […]

What’s the big deal with QR codes?

November 16, 2020

With Covid-19 we are all more familiar with QR codes: every time we go to a cafe or enter a shop you can register your attendance by a 10-second scan of the QR code and entering your details.You may not be surprised to know that HosPortal healthcare scheduling software was there first with an even […]

Kitchen appliances and good software design

October 2, 2020

Here at HosPortal we are well into the final stages of our completely rebuilt medical rostering software. It will still be familiar to existing user, but will also have powerful new features. When we selected and designed these features we have been very conscious of usability and incorporating features that our users will value. It […]

Welcome Perth Children’s Hospital

September 7, 2020

We are delighted to welcome Perth Children’s Hospital to HosPortal. This is our first customer in Western Australia and an important part of our national expansion. One minor interesting features of the roster are that all the clinical allocations are ‘unallocated’, so need to be staffed each time the roster is published without any template […]

Dr Chris Jones on the Talking Healthtech podcast

July 28, 2020

Our Founder and Clinical Director, the very talented Dr Chris Jones, was interviewed a few weeks back by Peter Birch for his Talking HealthTech podcast.In this short interview you can hear about how Chris started HosPortal, HosPortal’s plans for the future, and how technology has changed the way we work during Covid-19.You will also hear […]

HosPortal grows again – welcome Peter

June 30, 2020

HosPortal has been deep in the bunkers for a couple of years now with a major (and we mean MAJOR) upgrade to our rostering software. A complete ground-up rebuild that will bring the latest modern architecture, functionality and flexibility to every user’s experience. More news on the release of the new software in the coming […]

Shifts in La La Land: nuclear meltdowns, Oscar awards…and HosPortal design

November 25, 2019

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 […]

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