Points clés à retenir
- Automation saves time and ensures fairness by greatly reducing manual workload while distributing shifts equitably based on customizable rules and equity targets.
- Physician preferences and facility rules are always respected, because Petal accounts for availability requests, contract requirements, and coverage constraints to ensure compliance and satisfaction.
- Mobile scheduling allows flexibility on the freshly redesigned Petal Mobile App. Available on the App Store or Google Play, physicians view and manage their calendars—and more—anytime, anywhere.
Healthcare never stops. Your scheduling solution shouldn’t slow you down.
Between balancing on-call rotations, managing last-minute absences, and ensuring fair workload distribution, even experienced physicians feel the scheduling strain. Clinicians train to heal and serve their patients with the best care. Not to build schedules. That’s where Petal comes in.
Our scheduling solution decreases time spent scheduling by up to 98%. For that reason and more, Petal Workforce Hub is trusted by 37,000+ physicians across Canada to help medical teams create, manage, and consult schedules with confidence. Built specifically for healthcare teams, Petal transforms scheduling from a tedious task into a strategic advantage. Save time, improve fairness, and reduce burnout.
Here are 10 ways Petal helps healthcare teams take control of their schedules:
1. Automated Scheduling
The more complex the schedule, the more valuable automation becomes. Petal physician scheduling software saves hours of manual work while ensuring shifts are distributed fairly among physicians.
Configurable planning rules, such as physician absences, subspecialty requirements, and equity targets, allow physicians to automatically generate optimized schedules tailored to department needs.
2. Respecting physician availability
emploi du ensures every physician’s availability request is considered and respected. If a conflict arises, the system highlights it instantly, allowing schedulers to make quick adjustments. You can also prioritize certain rules, ensuring the final schedule aligns with what matters most to your team.
3. Equitable and fair shift distribution
Fairness and equity are built into Petal. Schedulers configure rules to ensure equity across difficult or less desirable shifts—like nights and weekends—while factoring exceptions such as part-time contracts or parental leave.
Equity reports make fairness transparent and measurable, reducing the risk of favoritism and boosting team morale.
CHUM achieved 92% clinician satisfaction with the Petal Workforce Hub.
4. Reduced communication errors
With Petal, everyone works from a single, cloud-based version of the truth. Schedules are updated in real time, and notifications go out automatically when changes occur—keeping physicians, assistants, and administrators perfectly aligned.
- Tip: Use Petal Secure Messaging to replace pagers and paper to reduce confusion, improve collaboration, and increase staff satisfaction.
5. Centralized Absence Requests
Forget chasing paper slips or emails. Physicians submit their absence requests directly through Petal, ensuring schedulers always have accurate, complete data at their fingertips. All requests are centralized, searchable, and easy to approve—saving hours of administrative time. No jumping from system to system, paper to digital, or trying to keep your Excel spreadsheet up-to-date
6. Compliance with facility requirements
Every hospital or clinic has unique coverage and contract requirements. Petal turns those parameters into smart rules within its system, ensuring compliance automatically. If a shift change risks breaching those rules—like overlapping absences among key specialists—the system flags it instantly for correction.
7. Seamless calendar sync
Petal integrates seamlessly with Google Calendar, Outlook, and iCal, allowing physicians to view and share their schedules with ease, whether it’s with an administrative assistant or family member. No exporting. No manual updates.
8. Mobile access anywhere, anytime
The Petal mobile app gives you full access to your personal and group schedules on the go. Intelligent tools, including Enhanced Calendar View, On-Call Search, and Initiate Shift Swap, simplify scheduling and satisfy staff.
9. Effortless shift exchanges
Need to swap shifts? You don’t want to waste time tracking people down and engaging in back-and-forth without proper visibility. Petal makes shift swaps simple. Physicians can propose, exchange, or transfer without intermediation.
Schedulers set approval workflows depending on the shift type or physician role, and the system automatically validates credentials to ensure that only qualified physicians can accept a given shift.
10. Smooth scheduler transitions
When schedulers change, your department’s scheduling knowledge shouldn’t disappear. Petal securely stores all configuration rules, templates, and equity settings, ensuring continuity and fairness no matter who’s managing the schedule. New schedulers can get up to speed faster with your preferences preserved.
Start saving time with automated scheduling
Petal’s automated scheduling is part of the Petal Workforce Hub, a comprehensive solution designed to simplify healthcare workforce planning from end to end.
With Petal Scheduling, you can:
- Build and publish optimized schedules in minutes.
- Reduce manual errors and administrative overhead.
- Improve fairness and transparency across your department.
- Boost satisfaction and retention among your physicians.
Join 100,000+ users already streamlining their operations with Petal. Discover how intelligent, automated scheduling transforms healthcare operations.
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