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...

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,...

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,...

amy 11 13, 2012

You have taken a long-term, multi-faceted approach to manage your change-over to on-call software and a new scheduling process. You have allocated the time, resources, and commitment to do this. Why then why, six months later, has the new implementation...

amy 09 04, 2012

How can you guarantee objectivity, fairness, and transparency in your on-call schedules? In the past, paper calendars and excel documents made "gaming" difficult to detect. Auditing was inaccurate and time-consuming since schedules were generally created by hand from scratch each...

amy 10 21, 2011

I hear Schedulers every day referring to rules, fairness, tallies, and pleasing the physicians. When we are up to our elbows “alligators”, sometimes we forget that the schedule is much more than a set of abbreviations in a date-square. Behind...

justin-wampach 04 05, 2011

Out-of-date hospitals manage on-call for the Doctors with binders whereas modern hospitals manage on-call for their Doctors customers using technology. If you are a specialty provider such as a Cardiologist or OB/GYN Doctor, what type of service do your patients...