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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. If commercial is ok too by Marxist+Hacker+42 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Hate to say it, but this is the *only* thing Microsoft did right in Exchange/Outlook/Pocket Outlook- and took it to extremes.

    Extreme Silliness perhaps- It's possible, for instance, in a properly set up Exchange/Outlook system, to view everybody's calendars, schedule a meeting, invite everybody to the meeting, and have them synchronize down to their PDAs, which remind them not only of that meeting, but also of the next one, which means that at the end of the meeting you have x # of people, all of whose PDAs are ringing to tell them it's time to move to the next room.

    Seems to me it would be good to help schedule loades of people, and if you have a wifi network, automagically synchronize PDAs over the wifi network to inform people where to go next.

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  3. What does your scheduling problem look like? by zhiwenchong · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If your scheduling problem can be quantified (i.e. expressed as an LP), you can use this to solve for the optimal schedule given all sorts of constraints.

    GAMS - General Algebraic Modeling System.

    They use this for airline crew scheduling and all sorts of other stuff.

    Also, look at this AMPL - A Modeling Language for Mathematical Programming

    I hope I haven't misunderstood your question though... (all you may need is iCal.... or maybe not.)

  4. 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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  5. 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.