Lightning Bolt, QGenda, and Amion are built for large health systems. Orbit is built for residency programs and clinics. Here's what that means for you.
Months-long implementation with dedicated project manager. IT coordination required. Custom integrations.
Afternoon setup. Join code gets your team on board in minutes. No IT required. No spreadsheet migration headache.
Dedicated scheduling coordinators. Physicians view a published schedule they receive via email or portal.
Program directors, attendings, residents, and staff. Everyone sees My Orbit with their personal daily cards and can contribute via Comms.
Providers receive their schedule. Portal view is read-only. Limited engagement tools.
My Orbit shows daily cards with site prep, fairness explanations, peer props, shift swap marketplace, and team chat. Residents see confidence in their schedule.
Available as part of enterprise package. Requires separate configuration and learning curve.
Built-in 4-week rolling averages, real session times, duty hour attestation, training exposure tracking, and exportable site-visit reports.
Constraint solver for optimization. Requires expert operation. Limited explanations to staff.
HAL — conversational AI for both schedulers and staff. Generates schedules, explains fairness, finds coverage, checks launch readiness, answers questions in plain English.
Enterprise contracts. Typically 5–6 figures annually. Multi-year commitment.
Free to start. Scales with your program. No surprise bills. $0 to thousands based on your needs.
Coordinator publishes schedule. Changes require re-publish cycle. Limited live updates.
Live sync via Firebase. Every schedule change is instantly visible to the whole team across all devices.
QGenda is an enterprise workforce management platform built for large health systems managing hundreds of staff across multiple specialties. It's powerful — and priced accordingly.
Amion (now part of Doximity) is the legacy physician scheduling tool many programs have used for years. It works for simple schedule distribution — but it was built in a different era.
Spreadsheet-style schedule entry. Optimized for pushing a calendar out to staff. Staff view via Amion.com or iCal sync.
Real-time collaborative board and grid views with drag-and-drop, Assembly Board, live sync. HAL auto-fills gaps and validates before publish.
Not a core feature. Duty hours require separate tracking in MedHub, New Innovations, or spreadsheets alongside Amion.
Built-in: 4-week rolling averages, duty hour attestation residents fill in 30 seconds, training exposure heat maps, and one-click ACGME site visit PDF.
Providers receive a published schedule. iCal export. Limited two-way interaction beyond viewing.
My Orbit daily cards, shift huddle chat, peer props, swap marketplace, site prep, real-time check-in, and "Ask HAL why" fairness explanations.
Manual scheduling with rule-based constraint checks. No conversational AI. No gap-filling assistant.
HAL generates full weeks, fills gaps respecting credentials and pairing rules, detects burnout risk, explains decisions in plain English — for both schedulers and staff.
Part of Doximity. Enterprise SaaS roadmap driven by health system contracts and Doximity platform priorities.
Built by a practicing program director. Every feature request comes from real operational pain. The roadmap is driven by the people who schedule residents every week.
4-week rolling averages, duty hour attestation, training exposure heat maps, and GME-ready PDF exports for your next site visit.
Conversational AI that talks to both schedulers and staff. Finds coverage, explains fairness, detects burnout risk, validates before publish.
My Orbit daily cards, peer props, micro-feedback, shift swap marketplace, contextual site prep, and on-call visibility for every provider.
No credit card. No implementation project. No IT department required.
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