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Medrota

Automates an emergency department's monthly duty rota from its own scheduling rules

By Eighteen North

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What it does

Medrota, part of the Docuity suite, automates an emergency department's monthly duty rota, a process that is normally weeks of free-text requests and a rulebook held in one scheduler's head. Doctors submit structured requests, a day off, an easier run of mornings or evenings, specific nights, or a weekend off, for any of the next three months. A rules engine encoding the department's real construction checklist then drafts the whole month in seconds: on-call rotation, night groups, weekend and holiday cover, and a plain reason for every request it could and could not honor.

The scheduler reviews and edits the draft on a grid built to look like the spreadsheet the department already uses, and any manual change or claimed shift stays locked in place even if the month is regenerated. The finished rota exports back into that exact workbook. Once published, doctors can trade shifts with each other, claim open extra-pay sessions, and report an absence without a phone call, and a doctor can check shifts or claim a session straight from Docuity Chat using the same shared Docuity sign-in.

Medrota was built first around one emergency department's real construction rules and its actual workbook, so its demo data is that department's real rota and is never shown publicly. In this version, each account belongs to one department's schedule at a time.