Hospitalist Scheduling Made Simple

Hospitalist programs thrive on fairness and consistency. Yet too often, scheduling inequities creep in: one physician gets stuck with back-to-back night shifts while another has more weekends off, breeding resentment.

Clinical Rota brings fairness and transparency to hospitalist schedules by evenly distributing nights, weekends, and on-call duties across the group. Our intelligent algorithms consider each provider’s total workload, ensuring no single hospitalist is overburdened.

• Equitable Distribution: Evenly distribute nights, weekends, and on-call duties across your entire group
• Prevent Overburden: Algorithms consider each provider’s total workload to ensure balance
• Combat Burnout: Physicians overwhelmed by unfair schedules are more likely to experience stress and leave
• Build Trust: Provide visibility into how assignments are made so every hospitalist sees shifts are allocated objectively

Unlike many specialties, hospitalists intimately understand that scheduling affects patient care. When providers work multiple consecutive days with the same patients, it improves continuity and outcomes.

Studies have found that patients cared for by hospitalists on schedules that permit greater inpatient continuity have significantly better 30-day outcomes - including lower mortality and readmission rates - and even reduced costs.

• Block Scheduling: Configure 7-on/7-off or other models so physicians are scheduled in contiguous blocks
• Follow Patients Through: Allow hospitalists to follow patients through an admission for better care
• Balance Continuity with Fairness: Ensure each hospitalist’s blocks are equitable while maintaining coverage
• Support Quality of Care: Scheduling practices that support both quality of care and provider well-being

Coordinating a hospitalist roster is often likened to a chess game - one that chiefs or coordinators spend dozens of hours per month trying to solve. Clinical Rota dramatically streamlines this process.

Our AI engine quickly assembles complete schedules that respect complex constraints like staffing ratios, service coverage (ICU vs. general wards), and individual preferences, all while minimizing administrative burden.

• Massive Time Savings: One medical department reduced schedule creation from 60-75 hours down to just 14 hours with AI-driven tools - over 50 hours freed per cycle
• Control Costs: Proactively flag when you’re about to incur avoidable overtime or need a locum tenens fill-in
• Ensure Complete Coverage: The most cost-effective allocation prevents expensive last-minute solutions
• Retention Impact: Fair, manageable schedules keep hospitalists longer, sparing you the $50k+ cost of replacing each physician who burns out

Clinical Rota’s platform marries cutting-edge technology with the realities of inpatient care delivery. This isn’t a one-size-fits-all tool - it’s configured to handle hospitalist-specific needs and complexities.

You can define custom rules such as maximum consecutive days on service, mandatory rest after night rotations, or rotation through specific units (e.g., each hospitalist spends a week in ICU, then telemetry). The AI automatically generates schedules that meet these criteria.

• Real-Time Response: If someone calls out sick or patient census spikes, generate an updated schedule or backup call list with one click
• System Integration: Interface with your hospital’s EMR or HR systems to pull in PTO and push finalized schedules to calendars or paging systems
• Provider Input: Hospitalists can input scheduling preferences, swap shifts via the app, and receive instant notifications
• Human-Centric Design: Combines AI efficiency with human oversight - the algorithm generates options, you make the final call