Anesthesia scheduling software
Built for the group, not the hospital.
Nice Schedule is for independent anesthesia groups of about 14 to 40 clinicians where one partner is still building call in a spreadsheet because no off-the-shelf tool can model the local rules.
We do not sell a calendar. We capture your rules, import your last few schedules, run a constraint solver against them, and hand you a draft your group can approve before you pay.
Where to start
Four pages, four buyer questions.
Most anesthesia scheduling search lands in one of four conversations. Pick the one you’re in.
Anesthesia call scheduling
What an anesthesia call schedule has to do, why the spreadsheet eventually breaks, and what a solver-backed version looks like. Start here if call is the part of the schedule that is taking your time.
Call schedule template
The five-tab structure we use with new groups before solver-backed scheduling kicks in. Copy it into your own sheet. Useful even if Nice Schedule never enters the conversation.
QGenda alternative
If you are evaluating QGenda or Amion and your blocker is anesthesia call rules, this page is the side-by-side. Honest about where each tool is the right answer.
Trident Anesthesia case study
What the cutover looked like for an eighteen-physician group covering seven hospitals. Six months in, the partner who used to build call has not touched the spreadsheet.
What “done for you” means
Part-time scheduler in a box.
A constraint solver shaped around your group’s rules, plus a scheduling partner who runs it each month. The partner is the one who captures your rules in week one, generates the draft, reviews it, and hands you the schedule your group reviews and publishes. The solver is the part that means it doesn’t take a weekend.
- Monthly schedule, delivered — not a tool your group has to learn.
- Constraint solver that respects post-call rest, site coverage, vacation, weekend fairness, and partner pairings.
- Mobile app for clinicians to view assignments and submit requests.
- Fairness accounting that carries forward from prior months and prior years.
- One scheduling partner you actually talk to, not a ticket queue.
If you only read one thing on the site
It should be how this actually plays out at Trident.
Eighteen physicians. Seven hospitals. One partner whose weekends came back. Six months of published schedules, all run through the same solver. The case study walks through the four rules we modeled, what we did before generating any schedule, and the honest part: what a solver does not solve.
Is this a fit
We are careful about who we take on.
We only onboard two new groups per month, because rule-capture is most of the work and we do it ourselves.
This is a fit if
You are an independent call-taking anesthesia group, usually 14–40 clinicians. One partner or scheduler owns call. The constraints are real (post-call, site mix, subspecialty work) and the spreadsheet is the bottleneck.
Probably not a fit
You need hospital-wide OR scheduling, you are looking for free software, you want to configure a tool yourself, or your current process is working fine. Say so on the call and we will save us both a meeting.
The first move
Send the call rule you do not think a computer can handle.
Not a demo request. Send the constraint that has made you skeptical scheduling software can work for your group. We read every one and reply within one business day with a direct answer.