Provider and Staff Scheduling Software

Yes! We make your transition easy by importing a spreadsheet of your past schedules, including personnel, assignments, patterns, eligibility, and compatibility, ensuring all your historical data is available in Lightning Bolt for running reports.

Unlike other products that simply digitize manual scheduling, Lightning Bolt uses an AI-enabled process called combinatorial optimization to identify the best solution—in this case, a schedule—from a finite set of possibilities. By considering multiple variables such as staff availability, skill sets, and shift preferences, combinatorial optimization allows Lightning Bolt to rapidly identify the optimal schedule that maximizes resource utilization while meeting organizational constraints. This process advances operational efficiency, improves staff satisfaction by building fairer schedules, and enhances patient care by ensuring that the right personnel are in the right place at the right time.

Yes, our subscription feature allows you to get your latest schedule on any iOS or Android device, with real-time updates. We also offer a native iPhone app for free.

Lightning Bolt is web-based and fully functional on Mac, Windows, and Linux platforms.

Yes, using our subscriptions feature, your schedule will automatically update in Outlook or Google Calendar with any changes.

Yes, our system is flexible enough to schedule any staff. It can also assign operating room (OR) cases to anesthesia staff and schedule examination rooms and even veterinarians.

Technical support is available from 8 AM to 8 PM Eastern Time (5 AM to 5 PM Pacific Time) via phone (1.866.202.4323 ext. 4), email, or submitting a request.

Licenses are per seat, so replacements don’t affect pricing. However, a net increase in scheduled individuals requires additional licenses.

Yes, either by loading actual past schedules or summaries in the form of tallies to produce new schedules based on historical data.

We assist with initial setup and training. Users can choose to maintain the system themselves or rely on our support. If the rules change, we can also handle it or you can do it yourself.

We offer unlimited professional services and technical support to help you adapt the system to new rules, whether you prefer us to handle it or do it yourself.

No, our system can handle schedules for large groups with no technical limits on providers or tasks.

Yes, we recommend integrating to enhance workforce management and operational efficiency. Check out some of our integrations.

Yes, it can help smaller practices! Many of our smaller practices find having Lightning Bolt to be very beneficial. It gives them one source of truth for scheduling, makes it much easier to submit time-off requests & execute last-minute shift swaps, creates optimal holiday schedules, allows for easy mobile schedule access, and promotes an overall increase in convenience.