Scheduling Software for Large Organisations?

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."

Comments

DOCS2000

[rider_prider]

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.

VA's VistA

[neitzsche]

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.