1Call Ushers In The Next Generation Of Cloud-Based Scheduling Applications With miOnCall

Recently, we have worked with customers and prospects that manually keep track of oncall scheduling information using binders and spreadsheets to organize all types of schedules. This method works, but I think a few questions need to be asked when taking this approach: 1.) How many people-hours does it take to create and maintain schedules this way? 2.) Is there a more efficient way of creating, maintaining and sharing oncall schedules?

When speaking with healthcare customers and prospects we found out that it IS very time consuming to create and maintain ANY type of schedule. In many instances overnight hospital personnel create and assemble oncall binders with paper schedules, and guess what? As soon as these binders are distributed and starting to be used by  hospital personnel, they are rendered out of date. Changes to these schedules start immediately because of schedule swaps, weather emergencies or ill personnel that can’t cover their assigned schedules. Eventually, the out of date oncall scheduling information leads to errors like contacting the wrong doctor at the wrong time. It’s the nature of the beast when it comes to relying on paper schedules.

I think 1Call has come up with an answer for the second question: Is there a more efficient way of creating, maintaining and sharing oncall schedules? And that answer is Yes!

The answer is miOnCall.

The subscription-based miOnCall application is a powerful, flexible and completely secure cloud-based oncall scheduling application that makes it easy to assign schedule coverage, view schedule coverage, and dispatch messages. The miOnCall schedules are available to physicians and staff via Web access, can be synched with Outlook® calendars, and accessed with AMTELCO’s miOnCall App, available on the Apple® iTunes® store for the iPhone®, iPad™, and iPod touch®. miOnCall is perfect for small and large doctors groups, clinics and large healthcare organizations. Contact 1Call about miOnCall at info@miOnCall.com or visit www.miOnCall.com to subscribe for service.

Matt Everly is the Marketing Director for Amtelco’s 1Call Healthcare Division and can be reached at maeverly@1call.com

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