Fear of Change & the on-call Schedule (Part 1) – Scheduling

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Out-of-date hospitals manage on-call for the Doctors with binders whereas modern hospitals manage on-call for their Doctors customers using technology.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...