Emergency medicine scheduling
Slipstream ER is AI scheduling software that builds fair, balanced emergency department schedules for physicians and advanced practice providers (APPs: PAs and NPs) in seconds. It enforces rest-after-nights rules, approved time-off, and equity across nights, weekends, and holidays automatically, replacing spreadsheet scheduling. 30-day free trial, no credit card required.
You enter shift types, providers, and rules once. Each month, you import time-off and requests, then generate the full schedule in seconds. The constraint-based AI engine fills every shift while making rest-after-nights violations, forbidden shift sequences, and unapproved time-off structurally impossible, for attendings, nocturnists, PAs, and NPs alike. You review a plain-English violations report, tweak, and publish.
Yes. Slipstream ER schedules emergency physicians and advanced practice providers (physician assistants and nurse practitioners, also called midlevels) in one system, in blended or separate pools. Pairing and supervision rules are enforced automatically, so a PA is never scheduled without required physician coverage.
Slipstream ER tracks nights, weekends, and holidays as a cumulative running ledger per provider, not a monthly reset. Equity targets adjust for FTE status and role, so fairness is measured within each group and the "I always get weekends" argument becomes a number anyone can check.
Slipstream ER charges a flat rate per site: Core is $49.99/month (up to 30 providers) and Pro is $99/month (30+ providers, up to 50 per site, with Emergency Coverage alerts, holiday requests, and advanced analytics). Every plan starts with a 30-day free trial, no credit card required, cancel anytime. See pricing.
Most departments are up and running in a single afternoon: a guided wizard sets up shift types, providers, and rules in under an hour, time-off imports from QGenda or Lightning Bolt, and providers load by CSV in minutes.
| Feature | Slipstream ER | Spreadsheets | Legacy schedulers (QGenda, Lightning Bolt) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full month build time | Seconds | Hours | Minutes to hours |
| Physician + APP pools | Yes, blended or separate | Manual | Varies |
| Night/weekend equity ledger | Automatic, cumulative | Manual tracking | Limited |
| Hard rules (rest-after-nights etc.) | Structurally enforced | Hope and checking | Configurable |
| Swap/giveaway validation | Automatic rule-check | Manual | Varies |
| Pricing | $49.99 to $99/mo per site | Free (plus your time) | Enterprise pricing |
Yes. Attendings, nocturnists, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners can be scheduled together or in separate pools, with pairing and supervision rules enforced.
APP stands for advanced practice provider: physician assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs) working in the ED. They are also commonly called midlevels.
Slipstream ER generates the schedule with AI in seconds rather than as a manual drag-and-drop build, enforces hard rules structurally instead of flagging them after the fact, and tracks fairness as a cumulative ledger, at a flat $49.99 to $99/month per site with a 30-day free trial.
Yes. Holiday fairness tracking is built in (Pro plan), so no provider draws the same major holiday two years running without it being visible.
No. Slipstream ER is a staff scheduling tool. It does not store or process patient data or PHI.
Yes. Providers trade or give away shifts through a self-serve portal; the engine blocks any swap that would break a rule, and you approve the rest.
Every shift gets filled; if capacity is short you get a loud warning in the violations report, never a silent gap.
Start the 30-day free trial (up to 50 providers, no credit card). Set up your department in the guided wizard, import this month's requests, generate, and publish.
30-day free trial, up to 50 providers, no credit card required.
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