Web-based Anaesthesia Rota Management
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 4:23 pm
Received this email from Suparna Das mid-October:
My reply :Re: Web-based departmental rotas
I'm a locum consultant anaesthetist at King's College Hospital, London.
Recently, while studying for a full-time MBA at Leeds Business School, I got interested in improving communications about changes in dept rotas using a web-based application & text messaging service.
Does SCATA know of any such application? Or else I'll develop it from scratch.
Is anyone interested in starting a project to build a web-based anaesthesia/theatre rota management system ?Hi Suparna, thanks for your message.
I think the problem in the past has always been the limitations of the browser in terms of delivering a feature-rich environment for a rota-type of application.
With the advent of Web 2.0/CSS 2 and Ajax, I think the possibilities are now much greater and I think we'll start to see commercial products appearing.
Personally I would really like SCATA to take a hand in building a web-based system and making it available for free to departments in the UK.
Perhaps we could fund it from sales to non-UK departments, or indeed we could look for grant funding.
I've copied this to a few of my SCATA colleagues to get their thoughts.