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Scheduling Software for Large Organisations?

Posted by Cliff on from the virtual-gant-charting dept.

DrCJM asks: "My wife works for a large hospital here in Australia, where her main role is building, managing and (where needed!) enforcing a schedule for all the junior doctors. This schedule covers several campuses, different specialty streams, different expertise levels, and so on. I'm sure there's a scheduling software package out there that can do all of the basic scheduling much faster than their current method of sitting down with very large bits of paper and lots of coloured pens. What software have Slashdot readers encountered that might do the job? Open Source would be great, but commercial efforts are acceptable too."

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  1. DOCS2000 by rider_prider · · Score: 5, Informative

    not too expensive, uses funky math to generate schedules for physicians. http://www.docs2000.net/ web based, they host the app and data... We have just started using it where I work, and it has been positive so far.

  2. Sears uses by david+duncan+scott · · Score: 2, Informative

    a package from Radiant Systems, and personally I'd recomend against it.

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  3. Mozart Oz by fuzzbrain · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't know alot about this but my understanding is that languages such as Mozart-oz which support constraint programming are ideal for this sort of thing. There's a demo here.
    A company called Friartuck makes commercial scheduling software using Mozart.

  4. call-scheduler by cybergeak · · Score: 2, Informative

    its what they do, and if its not exactly what you want, they'll customize it for ya i'm pretty sure.

    http://www.call-scheduler.com/

  5. VA's VistA by neitzsche · · Score: 4, Informative

    Either VistA or OpenVistA.

    The US Department of Vetern Affairs created VistA for it's hospitals. It includes an elaborate physician scheduling package. It is in the public domain. The CPRS component provides a GUI view that many physicians and most clerks like.

    OpenVistA is a commerialized flavor of the public domain software, which you can have installed and maintained from companies such as Medsphere.

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  6. scheduling software for hospitals. by chuckchuck · · Score: 3, Informative

    Per-Se http://www.per-se.com/index.asp offers software for health care resource scheduling. It's been around for 20 or so years. You add in all of the union/practice rules, along with resource needs, along with resources, and it can automatically generate schedules. In addition, it can generate all of the reports which might be needed during audit time.

  7. Re:your wife should be replaced by DrCJM · · Score: 2, Informative

    Except, of course, that she can DO this job and the hospital won't spend any money looking for another option.

    She's asked.

    Lots.

  8. FET by lalesculiviu · · Score: 2, Informative

    I am very sorry for replying twice, but I forgot to send the address of FET. It is http://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/. It is designed for schools, high-schools and universities, but maybe you find it suitable for your needs. It is free software (GNU/GPL).