Home › Blog › Shift work regulations Healthcare shift work in Italy: what the regulations impose (and how to comply every month) TL;DR — Rosters for healthcare staff in Italy must comply with Italian Legislative Decree 66/2003 (working time) (daily and weekly rest, average working hours), fully applicable to healthcare since November 2015 as a […]
Home › Blog › Simulated Annealing Optimizing rosters with operations research: what Simulated Annealing is TL;DR — The ALISEO ES engine uses Simulated Annealing, an optimization method from operations research, to generate in a few minutes rosters that meet regulatory constraints and distribute the workload fairly. It is not a marketing promise: it is the […]
Home › Blog › Fire safety and BLS-D Fire-safety and BLS-D coverage on the wards: how to prove it every day TL;DR — Having trained fire-safety officers and BLS-D (basic life support & defibrillation) operators is not enough: they must be present on every shift, with valid, up-to-date certifications — and in any audit you […]
Home › Blog › Physician rosters Physician rostering: by activity, not by staff category TL;DR — Physician rostering differs substantially from nurse rostering: you do not plan by staff category but by activity — operating theatres, on-call shifts, intensive care, outpatient clinics — each with its own staffing counts. ALISEO ES handles both in the […]
Home › Blog › Generative AI and rostering Can generative AI build the ward roster? In short — A chatbot such as ChatGPT, Copilot or Claude can write a roster that looks plausible; the best ones, asked properly, go further: they write a program that calls an optimization engine. So the question is no longer […]