Manual Healthcare Scheduling vs. Durate
Make an informed decision about your healthcare scheduling infrastructure
| Key Considerations |  Durate | Manual Scheduling | Why Does It Matter? |
|---|---|---|---|
| People Needed | Initial build: 0-1
Ongoing maintenance: 0 | Initial manually make: 3-5
Ongoing maintenance: 1-2 | Focus your time and attention on patient care. When your team is tied up reinventing the wheel on complex scheduling infrastructure, you face significant opportunity costs, miss out on revenue-generating opportunities, and add additional risk to the business. |
| Time to complete | Under an hour | Weeks to months | Manually making a reliable and secure scheduling system in-house takes significant time and resources, delaying your ability to deliver value. With Durate, you can achieve a faster time-to-market with an enterprise-grade solution, allowing you to capture opportunities quickly, avoid revenue loss from delays, and stay competitive. |
| Ongoing Maintenance | Dedicated support team, 24/7 on call engineer, ready-to-help expertise, and no operational burden for your team. | Ongoing schedule maintenance, troubleshooting, scheduling related backlog, and issues related to switches and payroll. | Frees up internal resources to focus on core healthcare delivery, boosting productivity and morale. |
| Cost | Predictable pricing model with reduced operational expenses. | High costs associated with paying staff to maintain operations, and the cost of missed coverage. | Lowers total cost of ownership and provides better cost predictability as your practice scales saving you money on locums, missed coverage, and maintance. |
| Reliability | 99.999% uptime SLA | Scheduling systems come with unique monitoring, maintenance, and reliability challenges. | Reliable scheduling is critical for patient care—it requires real-time updates, conflict detection, scalability, and fail-safes, which take time and effort to manually make. With Durate, you skip the complexity and get hands-off reliability. |
| Self-Serve Portal | Use a state-of-the-art, fully customizable scheduling portal to power your scheduling needs. | Manually make your own templates and manual system to manage your practice. | Empowers staff to manage schedules independently, reducing administrative overhead. Advanced analytics, shift swapping, and expanded use cases enhance flexibility and create a seamless workflow experience. |
| Schedule Optimization | Built-in AI-powered optimization with intelligent conflict resolution and automated coverage suggestions. | Requires manually making complex decisions, shift pattern recognition, and coverage gap detection that often leads to missed coverage. | Ensures optimal staffing levels even when providers are unavailable, improving patient care continuity and staff satisfaction. |
| Compliance & Auditing | Easy-to-use audit trails with detailed logs and compliance reporting for regulatory requirements. | Many manually made systems have basic logging functionality which degrades compliance posture. | Allows healthcare organizations to maintain regulatory compliance, reducing legal risk and ensuring operational continuity. |
| Security | End-to-end security, including SOC2 Type 2 compliance, encrypted data, and advanced authentication. | Manually making your own schedules often leads to dozens of shared excel sheets and documents that are not compliant. | Protects your organization and staff data, reducing the risk of security breaches and compliance violations. |
| Monitoring & Analytics | Prebuilt analytics dashboards, detailed reports, metrics, and real-time insights for scheduling performance. | Need to monitor coverage gaps, overtime patterns, provider workloads, and operational efficiency. | Improve operational efficiency by providing real-time visibility into scheduling issues. This allows administrators to optimize coverage and resolve conflicts quickly instead of relying on manual processes to debug every scheduling problem. |
| Scaling Infrastructure | Auto-scalable infrastructure that handles thousands of providers and scheduling events every month. | Have to manually scale custom systems that maintain old templates while complexity grows. | Prevents scheduling conflicts and bottlenecks, supporting seamless growth and high-volume healthcare operations. |
| Advanced Functionality | Flexible shift templates, automated coverage, and provider preference customization are natively supported along with advances integrations to payroll, EHRs, and more. | Data needs to be manually compiled and entered into multiple systems increasing the odds of errors and operational inefficiencies. | Enables healthcare organizations to tailor scheduling to their specific needs, enhancing usability and provider satisfaction. This also helps reduce administrative costs. |
People Needed
Focus your time and attention on patient care. When your team is tied up reinventing the wheel on complex scheduling infrastructure, you face significant opportunity costs, miss out on revenue-generating opportunities, and add additional risk to the business.
DurateTime to complete
Manually making a reliable and secure scheduling system in-house takes significant time and resources, delaying your ability to deliver value. With Durate, you can achieve a faster time-to-market with an enterprise-grade solution, allowing you to capture opportunities quickly, avoid revenue loss from delays, and stay competitive.
DurateOngoing Maintenance
Frees up internal resources to focus on core healthcare delivery, boosting productivity and morale.
DurateCost
Lowers total cost of ownership and provides better cost predictability as your practice scales saving you money on locums, missed coverage, and maintance.
DurateReliability
Reliable scheduling is critical for patient care—it requires real-time updates, conflict detection, scalability, and fail-safes, which take time and effort to manually make. With Durate, you skip the complexity and get hands-off reliability.
DurateSelf-Serve Portal
Empowers staff to manage schedules independently, reducing administrative overhead. Advanced analytics, shift swapping, and expanded use cases enhance flexibility and create a seamless workflow experience.
DurateSchedule Optimization
Ensures optimal staffing levels even when providers are unavailable, improving patient care continuity and staff satisfaction.
DurateCompliance & Auditing
Allows healthcare organizations to maintain regulatory compliance, reducing legal risk and ensuring operational continuity.
DurateSecurity
Protects your organization and staff data, reducing the risk of security breaches and compliance violations.
DurateMonitoring & Analytics
Improve operational efficiency by providing real-time visibility into scheduling issues. This allows administrators to optimize coverage and resolve conflicts quickly instead of relying on manual processes to debug every scheduling problem.
DurateScaling Infrastructure
Prevents scheduling conflicts and bottlenecks, supporting seamless growth and high-volume healthcare operations.
DurateAdvanced Functionality
Enables healthcare organizations to tailor scheduling to their specific needs, enhancing usability and provider satisfaction. This also helps reduce administrative costs.
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