Now even better for Emergency Medicine

After 15 years making medical rostering more efficient, HosPortal knows that each clinical area of a hospital thinks differently about how to build a roster and how to assign staff to shifts. Emergency Medicine is a particular example of distinctive challenges and strong preferences by roster administrators of how they get solved. Emergency departments also need particular flexibility in their staffing approach to be able to attract and retain doctors with one of the most difficult lifestyles of all the craft groups.

Over the last few months we have refined our software to address some of the issues that relate more directly to emergency departments:

• More flexible staffing patterns, for instance for staff who cycle through various types of shifts.

• A robust team structure, that can assign people to teams and manage the permissions for what they can see and do in relation to that team, for instance to manage the shifts of team members.

• More transparent on-screen metrics and reporting:

  • Show the number of hours and shifts each person is working

  • Highlight where a department is short staffed

  • Coming in early 2025, a simple on-screen presentation of the number of doctors able to work and the number of doctors actually staffed to work on various activities

• Significantly enhanced working and conflict rules that administrators can tweak themselves from day to day:

  • Conflict between different shifts

  • Over-working rules related to hours and days off

  • User specific rules, to flag if certain people cannot work together or need to work together.

• Our new AI roster builder, that can incorporate all the above, including doctors’ preferences, complex quota/fairness calculations and all the hospital rules, to build a pretty good first draft of the roster at the click of a button

If you want to see any of this in action please reach out, or come to see Katie, Shiela and Chris at our stand at the ACEM ASM in Adelaide, 24-28 November.