Facilitate the reconciliation of personal and professional life
The Petal platform reduces the time spent scheduling by up to 80%, while providing physicians with schedules that meet their requests and are accessible from mobile devices.
The Petal algorithm produces a schedule that respects the physicians’ requests as much as possible and the medical department’s rules such as the distribution of night and weekend shifts. It thus improves the entire team’s working conditions.
Physicians can offer their colleagues shifts through the platform, depending on the permissions granted by the scheduler. The result is less communication errors and fewer delays.
Automated scheduling generates an optimal schedule with just a few clicks and frees up time for value-added tasks. The schedule is created while taking into account fully-customizable constraints. It can be changed at any time for maximum flexibility.
Medical Activities Planned
+ 7MReal-Time Physician Shift Exchanges
+ 400,000Medical Services Deployed
+ 2,000
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To automate schedule creation, our platform uses an algorithm that takes into account physician unavailability, minimum on-call coverage, specialties, equity targets and a host of other factors. The more complex a physician's schedule, the more our automated scheduling can save time.
Physicians enter their time-off requests directly into their calendars. This ensures that the scheduler has the correct data on hand. Time-off requests are no longer dispersed over several communication channels, such as voice messages, paper documents, emails or messages by a third party.
Physicians can exchange or transfer certain shifts themselves, without going through an intermediary. The scheduler chooses whether or not to approve the changes before they become effective.
The schedules created on the platform can be viewed from external calendars such as Google Calendar, iCal and Outlook. It’s easy to share availability with people outside the department.
Residents can see which supervising physician is associated with their shift in their calendar and vice-versa. As soon as the scheduler modifies a supervising physician-resident shift, the system informs them both automatically.
