Name our new baby…
A potential customer wants to use HosPortal to show their surgical and scrub nurse theatre allocations on a corridor monitor. This is because their theatre staffing changes all the time and they want nurses and the nursing admin team to be able to glance up at the screen to see who is where.
So the use case is to set up a large screen monitor permanently showing the roster from an un-staffed computer.
One of the HosPortal design choices we made a while ago to manage performance and reduce confusion is to limit screen updates to when someone does something, such as changes a view or clicks into a shift. So we did not have a feature that provided ‘push’ updates to a roster display.
Well, now we do.
On every roster screen - no matter the roster group or the formatting - there is now a ‘Full screen’ button. When you press this:
The roster is maximised to fill as much of the screen as possible. Navigation bars and edit buttons are hidden.
The roster is updated ‘live’: any time someone updates a roster this is automatically pushed to the roster view. See staff and activity changes immediately they are in effect. You will see a ‘Live’ icon like the one below to remind you.
We are proud of this little feature that demonstrates the flexibility of our software and the wisdom of some of our earlier design and software architecture choices. Se we can certainly pat ourselves on the back about our tecnical prowess!
But now the hard part…we cannot work out what to call this feature. The latest internal debate argued heatedly about some of the some of the following options…including some ‘inspired’ by ChatGPT:
Digital dashboard
Whiteboard
Task board
Task assignment monitor
Billboard
Digital wall roster
Roster billboard
Which goes to show we are far better at software design than marketing.
If you have some ideas please let us know…we might even have prizes!
