Your department schedule, generated automatically.
Docthours builds the schedule from your posts, your rules and each doctor's desiderata. You check it, you publish it.
- Your next schedule, free, within the week
- Then 3 months of trial, no commitment
Used every month by nearly 200 doctors, at Cliniques de l'Europe and Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc.
The problem
Putting out the schedule means solving a puzzle.
“We need a senior for SMUR tomorrow, but Dr. Laennec is on holiday, Dr. Carrel has just finished 3 nights in a row, and Dr. Pare is not SMUR certified yet...”
The right person in the right post.
Qualification, rest between shifts, availability: every post has to bring all of it together at once.
Different regimes inside the same team.
Permanent staff, external contractors, registrars under the law of 12 December 2010: the same rules do not apply to everyone.
Every change brings another one.
One cell moves, three rules to check again, and the schedule everyone is waiting for is still not out.
Docthours solves this puzzle with constraint programming algorithms, the state of the art in optimisation. They hold every rule at once, explore billions of combinations and deliver a complete schedule in a few minutes, which you check before publishing.
Tomorrow's posts
- LA Dr. Laennec On holiday
- CA Dr. Carrel 3 nights in a row
- PA Dr. Pare SMUR certification
- VE Dr. Vesalius Assigned
How it works.
Simple to set up. Simpler still to use.
Your posts, your team and your department rules.
Every post with its hours and its site, every doctor with their contract, their sites and their own rules. One schedule for all your sites. During the trial, we take care of that setup.
- DR Dr. Drew works 2 weekend shifts a month
- VE Dr. Vesalius covers SMUR every Tuesday evening
- AL Dr. Alzheimer cannot take senior posts
- BO Dr. Bordet works 50% on each site
- ME Dr. Mendel is a registrar under the 2010 Law
- JU Junior registrars share the junior night shifts evenly between them
Everyone enters their unavailability and their leave.
Automatic reminder before the deadline, manager approval for leave.
- VE Dr. Vesalius is unavailable on the first weekend but will reach their quota later Pending Taken into account
- BL Dr. Blackwell is on holiday for 2 weeks: workload and quotas reduced in proportion Pending Taken into account
- DR Dr. Drew is an external contractor: two available slots specified Pending Taken into account
The schedule is generated in a few minutes.
You check coverage, fairness and that the rules are respected, then you publish. Every doctor is notified, their calendar is up to date.
Coverage
100%
Rules respected
100%
Law of 12 December 2010
Compliant
Fairness, nights and weekends per doctor
A schedule that follows the life of the department.
Nothing is published without you. Once it is out, an absence, a swap or a replacement is settled in a few clicks: Docthours suggests the colleagues who are available, checks the rules again, notifies the doctors and updates their calendars. The history is kept.
What it changes for doctors.
Two minutes for their desiderata.
From their phone, with a reminder before the deadline.
Clear and transparent rules.
Their rules are written down, they can look them up, and the schedule respects them at every generation.
Their schedule in their calendar.
Synchronised on their phone, up to date at every change. Nothing forgotten.
A swap or a shift to hand over.
From their phone. Docthours checks the rules and suggests the colleagues who are available, the manager approves.
Field feedback
Docthours was born in the emergency department of Cliniques de l'Europe, with the doctors who were preparing its schedule.
Before Docthours, I spent whole days designing the schedules and collecting the desiderata. Now I get a complete schedule with no mistakes. The doctors on my team took to the change quickly.
Head of the emergency department
Cliniques de l'Europe, Brussels
The interface is intuitive and very user friendly, with simple handling of shift swaps. A big plus as well for the support, genuinely personal and fitted to our institution.
Emilie Delloye
Schedule manager
Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels
A free schedule within the week. Then three months of trial.
Nothing to install, nothing to pay. You stop whenever you want.
You send what you already have.
Shift grid, list of doctors and their working time, department constraints. A spreadsheet or a PDF is enough. The setup is taken care of.
Your next schedule, free, within the week.
Built on your next period, to compare with your own. Not convinced? It stops there.
Three months of trial with your doctors, free.
Desiderata, swaps, calendars: the whole application, without paying. Then the subscription, or you stop.
The price for your department.
10 doctors
100 € per month
100 € up to 10 doctors, then 50 € more for every 7 doctors. Never more than 500 €.
- VAT included
- All sites included
- Price set on your headcount, adjusted once a year
- Every feature, on computer and phone, with unlimited positions and rules.
- No setup fee, nothing to install.
- Email and Teams support, answered within 24 hours.
- Hosted in Europe, no patient data.