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OnCallNow

Who is on call for cardiology, right now? One screen knows.

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What it is

The always-current on-call lookup: per department, per shift, from StaffDesk’s rota — with the escalation chain when the first call does not answer. The question asked a hundred times a night, answered without a phone tree.

Who uses it: Built for: Every specialty
Reads: Rotas
Writes: Lookup views
Never: It does not go stale silently — a department with no on-call assignment shows as a loud gap, not yesterday’s name.
Access: Only people whose role includes it — the clinic owner decides who
Your data: No PHI. Hosted in Boston, United States. On uninstall: Every record stays; only the workflow leaves.

How it works

Ask who is on callChoose a specialty and the screen answers in one line — the name, the contact number and until when. When nobody is rostered it says so in the same place, in the same size, rather than showing the last name it saw.
Read the escalation chain and the holesEscalation chain lists each step with its contact and until when; a step covered by a swap is marked cover. Holes in the rota lists every uncovered interval between two dates, in minutes.
Publish a periodOn Publish a period: specialty, person, from, to, contact number and step 1 to 5, then Publish. The database refuses two people on the same specialty and step over overlapping hours, and a period that ends before it starts.
Request cover and have somebody else approve itOn Cover swaps, pick the period, who covers and the reason, then Request cover. Covering yourself is refused, the requester cannot approve their own swap, and a decline needs a reason. An approved cover changes the answer at the top and shows covering for; the published rota row is untouched.

Rules it keeps

What it does not do, by design. A listing with only benefits is an advertisement.

It does not go stale silently — a department with no on-call assignment shows as a loud gap, not yesterday’s name.

AI in OnCallNow

AskQuestions about what is on screen — “What needs attention in OnCallNow today?” — answered with the records it read.

DraftSummaries and notes for the team, marked as drafts until a person signs.

Every answer shows its sources. Nothing AI writes is saved until a person accepts it.

See it on screen

OnCallNow — On Call — Who’s on call right now, per department — 01On Call — Who’s on call right now, per departmentCaptured from the running demo clinic

01On Call — Who’s on call right now, per departmentCaptured from the running demo clinic

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Connected to

Read out of the code, not the brochure: each app below is here because one service queries the other’s tables. Install either side and the hand-over is already wired.

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StaffDesk

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Questions clinics ask

What does OnCallNow do?

Who is on call for cardiology, right now? One screen knows. The always-current on-call lookup: per department, per shift, from StaffDesk’s rota — with the escalation chain when the first call does not answer. The question asked a hundred times a night, answered without a phone tree.

What data does OnCallNow read and write?

OnCallNow reads rotas and writes lookup views. Its data class is No PHI. Every app works on the same patient record — nothing is copied into a silo.

What does OnCallNow deliberately not do?

It does not go stale silently — a department with no on-call assignment shows as a loud gap, not yesterday’s name.

What happens to our data if we uninstall OnCallNow?

Every record stays; only the workflow leaves.

Is OnCallNow available today?

Yes — OnCallNow is live in clinics today. Set up your practice on MedAppz and install it from your dashboard.

Want to see OnCallNow running on your own patients?

Tell us what you run and we will show you this app inside a practice shaped like yours — or answer the question the page above did not.

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