ByteBloc Software was founded over three decades ago by an emergency physician to help other emergency
medicine physicians and providers with their scheduling needs. Since then, ByteBloc has adapted its
software to accommodate thousands of variations in emergency rooms schedules.
With an emergency room physician as the creator and overseer, the software is tailored specifically
to meet the many and complex facets of scheduling the work for emergency providers. ByteBloc software has been
implemented by emergency rooms in all 50 U.S. states, Canada, and several other countries. ByteBloc was the top-rated
physician scheduling software in a review done by ACEP's Section of "Computers in Emergency Medicine".
The ByteBloc software is also easily adaptable to the scheduling needs of groups outside of emergency
medicine.
The fascinating history of employee scheduling
Shift work has been around since the dawn of civilization. About 3000 years ago, for example, a rotating labor force built Egypt’s Great Pyramid. About 2500 years ago, Sun Tzu wrote extensively about scheduling military personnel in his book, “The Art of War.” More recently, entrepreneurs building the transcontinental railroad needed a smart scheduling system to coordinate tens of thousands of workers across six US states. Those scheduling ...