Tools - Schedule Management

Shift Admin is a completely web-based schedule management system for Emergency Physicians, Hospitalists, Radiologists, and more. The system allows you to manage schedules for one or many facilities, and features include user and administrative shift posting/trading/splitting, schedule requests, schedule generation, easy printing, automatic syncing with external calendar software, private and public URL options, extensive administrative controls, extensive stats and reporting, and much more.

The Shift Admin system provides robust schedule management for both schedulers and users.

Schedulers

• Ability to customize schedules with facilities, shift types, shift order and times
• Let Shift Admin generate a schedule for you. Shift Admin offers an Automated Schedule Generation add-on that can generate optimized schedules based on fully-customizable constraints and rules. The Shift Admin schedule generator features a simple but powerful user interface, and the underlying scheduling algorithm is world-class. The Auto Scheduler will generated a schedule for you in minutes (or seconds!)
• Ability to share the group schedule with non Shift Admin users through the use of a public URL
• Group Statistics section allows for tracking of hours, nights, weekends, holidays, etc
• History of all schedules and schedule changes made
• Ability to control access to shift management features used by staff (posting, assigning, trading, splitting shifts)
• Ability to either require approval or automatically approve shift trades and pickups
• Ability to post open shifts with alerts
• Automatic reminders sent for shifts that remain open as date nears

Users

• Group schedule views for each group or hospital where the user works
• My schedule view showing just the user's schedule, including multiple shifts in multiple locations
• Ability to post shifts as available for other users to pickup, ability to trade shifts, ability to assign other users to shifts, ability to adjust start/end times of shifts, etc. (rights based on roles defined by admins)
• History of all shifts posted and picked up
• Reminder emails for shifts that have been picked up
• Submit schedule requests (days off/on, specific shift on/off, vacation request) online
• Ability to subscribe to your schedule using programs such as Outlook 2007, Apple iCal, Google Calendar, and others
• Ability to share your schedule with non Shift Admin users (such as family and friends) through the use of a public URL