The Digital Transformation of Scheduling: A New Approach

justin-wampach 10 25, 2021

Many hospitals in the U.S. are still relying on antiquated physician on-call scheduling processes. This can often take the form of a whiteboard or even a large binder, held together with duct tape and re-built nearly every few days as...

amy 07 12, 2018

Have you heard about "4-ingredient" cookbooks? How about the book "A Man, a Can, and a Plan"? What do they all have in common? They each advocate all you need to do is assemble the four ingredients listed, follow the...

justin-wampach 06 19, 2018

Medical Groups should be providing valuable tools for physicians to use, for free, to create maintain, and communicate their on-call and work schedules. Physicians should have access to free tools to use to do their job. Free to the physicians,...

justin-wampach 06 08, 2018

When I began my career at Adjuvant, I needed to find my passion for the industry. How the hell do you find a passion for creating, maintaining, and publishing call schedules? I will be honest, it took me a while....

amy 05 05, 2016

It’s 2 p.m. and you have a few more hours until the end of your workday. You suddenly remember a promise you made to your kids to attend their first baseball game a few weeks away. Your vision blurs, your...

amy 09 21, 2015

Using Physician scheduling software is only part of the solution for on-call scheduling. Obviously, the software takes much of the guesswork out of creating a fair, efficient schedule, but scheduling is still part art, part science, and part evaluation by...

amy 07 25, 2014

In pursuit of saving scheduling time creating, editing, and communicating the perfect on-call schedule for your physicians, are you tempted to “hide” your future schedules until they are absolutely perfect? Have you purchased software to help you, but are you...

amy 02 28, 2014

Many times a complex on-call schedule from a large multi-specialty group or hospital is made up of several specialties combined into one large on-call schedule (master call schedule). This is a great view for those who need to reference all...

amy 11 26, 2013

What are three things all successful schedulers and physicians seem to have in common? Strong personalities Great political / inter-personal instincts A thick skin Successful Schedulers and Physicians want to do the right thing, in the best way possible. They...

amy 11 13, 2012

Planning for a new On-Call Scheduling system needs to include more than the cut-and-dried process and timeline to accomplish tasks. The people-factor can have a huge impact on the success of your project! In a continuation of the previous article,...