Essential Board - The digital on-duty screen for modern hospitals
Essential Board is an intelligent digital staff-on-duty information screen designed for hospitals, providing a quick, automatically generated overview of duty rosters across multiple locations as needed. The system replaces manual on-call and standby rosters, handwritten notices, emails, and Excel spreadsheets with a modern, real-time, digital overview of on-duty physicians across all specialties.
500+
Hospitals
30k+
Health Professionals
240k+
Saved Time
What Essential Board delivers
Essential Board is specially designed for use in emergency departments, intensive care units, operating theatres and switchboards.
• Duties for yesterday, today and tomorrow
• The name of the duty (e.g. “Surgery Consultant Day”)
• The associated on-call phone number
• First and last name of the on-duty physician or other specialist medical staff
• Unfilled duties are visually highlighted so action can be taken in time
Your advantages
• No more manual maintenance of standby and on-call rosters
• No more emails, Excel sheets or paper notices
• Immediate transparency across all departments — efficient emergency management
• Early detection of staffing gaps
• No additional license costs in the HLth.care environment
• Clients can configure multiple Essential Boards with different content as needed
Cloud
solution
You don't need to use local infrastructure besides an internet connection.
App for health professionals
The easy-to-use app "HLth.care Team" lets health professinals manage their shifts.
Updates in real time
Real-time updates on doctors and nurses on duty who are actually available.
Short staff management
Managing staff shortages and short-notice sick calls.
Relieve Healthcare Staff, Reduce Costs And Gain Time For Patients
The HLth.Care App is working smoothly together with ESSENTIAL BOARD and is free to start the journey.
This gives hospital executives peace of mind
This software-as-a-service system – including Essential Board, the »HLthcare.Team« App for every health professional, an InfoScreen for each specialty, and our web software for management and back office – is available from USD 15 per user per year.
Flexibility
Medical care in rural areas
Suppose the use case is not a single hospital but an entire (rural?) region to which the duty roster applies. In that case, the on-call services can also be aggregated and displayed regionally on a single screen.
Why ESSENTIAL BOARD is different
ESSENTIAL BOARD is built for the moment when schedules matter. We are not another rostering tool. We are a purpose-built clinical information screen designed to answer one critical question in seconds:
Who is on duty right now?
Essential Board was designed specifically for hospital environments, not adapted from office software. It runs on wall-mounted screens in emergency departments, ICUs, OR areas and control centers — exactly where the information is needed.
While other systems focus on planning, we focus on visibility:
- Real-time display of current, previous, and upcoming duties
- Immediate visual alerts for unstaffed services
- Zero interaction required — no clicking, no searching, no training
- ESSENTIAL BOARD is deeply integrated with real clinical workflows:
- Data from HLth.care web software
- Live updates from the mobile HLth.care app
- Optional integration of external systems
It works equally well with employed physicians, nurses and attending specialists — without complex IT projects or on-site infrastructure.
The Essential Board was not invented in a meeting room.
It was built from real emergency department experience.
That is why it feels different.
And why it works differently.
Founding hospitals are already live in:
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The first founding hospitals are The initial founding hospitals are in Germany and Switzerland. More countries are joining. Join as well!
One hospital. One country. One chance to shape the standard.
Apply for the Founding Hospital Program.
Bringing Essential Board to your country — together
We are looking for one hospital per country to become our strategic launch partner for Essential Board – The Digital On-Call Board.
This is an invitation.
The Founding Hospital Program gives selected hospitals full access to Essential Board for 12 months — including setup, configuration and direct collaboration with our product team.
In return, we build something meaningful together:
A national reference project for modern, digital emergency department operations.
What you receive
As a Founding Hospital Partner, you receive:
Full access to Essential Board for 12 months
- Unlimited InfoScreens for your organization
- Integration with HLth.care
- Dedicated onboarding and configuration support
- Priority feature influence
- Official recognition as national reference site
You are not a customer.
You are a launch partner.
Why we are doing this
Essential Board was built from real emergency department experience. We don’t believe in selling software into a country without understanding its clinical reality.
That’s why we select one strategically aligned hospital per country to:
- adapt the product to national workflows
- validate real-world usability
- build long-term partnerships instead of short-term deals
No lock-in.
No pressure.
No hidden costs.
Who should apply
This program is designed for hospitals that:
- run a busy emergency department
- operate across multiple specialties
- want to reduce manual, error-prone on-call processes
- are willing to actively shape the future of clinical operations
This is not a mass offer.
This is a selective partnership.
What happens after 12 months?
After the program ends, you can:
- continue with a standard HLth.care license
- or expand the system based on your organization’s needs
Become the first hospital in your country to deploy Essential Board.
Please feel free to contact us using the form below.
Contact
The first founding hospitals are in 🇩🇪 Germany and 🇨🇭Switzerland. More countries are joining. Join as well! Apply now to be the first in your country. Submit your country partner requests or contact us with your needs.
Phone (USA): +1 (914) 331-1558
E-Mail: steve@hlth.care
Address: ESSENTIAL BOARD by qhit healthcare consulting, Hochbergerstrasse 70, 4057 Basel, Switzerland