Behind every shift is a doctor.
PlanMyRounds is physician scheduling software built in Bengaluru, India, for hospitals, hospital departments, and physician groups.
PlanMyRounds automates duty rosters and workforce scheduling, helping teams manage availability, leave, preferences, coverage, fairness, swaps, and the many constraints that make healthcare scheduling difficult. Today, it is used by 600+ doctors across 10+ hospitals, in India and international markets, through our web and iOS products.
Our story
PlanMyRounds started with something we saw up close.
We saw family members who are doctors spend hours dealing with duty schedules. What looked like a simple roster on the outside was a manual process behind the scenes: collecting availability, checking leave, balancing shifts, coordinating with other doctors, making sure the workload was fair, and then fixing everything when reality changed.
The schedule was not just administrative work. It affected when doctors worked, when they could spend time with their families, how much rest they got, and how much uncertainty they carried into their personal lives.
And the people building these schedules were dealing with the same problem from the other side. Coordinators and HODs were spending hours every month putting together rosters that could break the moment someone called in sick, took leave, or needed a swap.
We felt this should not be a manual problem. So we started building PlanMyRounds.
The shift is the center
A shift might look like a row on a calendar. But behind every shift is a doctor.
A doctor who may have worked the night before. A doctor who has requested a particular day off. A doctor who has a family event the next morning. A junior doctor who needs the right supervision. A senior doctor whose workload needs to remain sustainable.
That is why we care so much about getting scheduling right. The goal isn't simply to produce a roster.
The goal is to make the workforce behind every shift work better.
From scheduling to workforce intelligence
Scheduling is where we started because it is one of the most painful and visible workforce problems in hospitals.
PlanMyRounds helps teams collect availability and preferences, manage leave, build and publish rosters, and handle changes and swaps when reality inevitably changes.
We are now building an AI layer on top of this system. The AI can help understand what a hospital team is trying to accomplish, reason across complex scheduling constraints, surface problems, suggest changes, and help teams take action without manually working through every possibility.
But scheduling is only the beginning. Once you understand the people, shifts, availability, workload, capacity, and constraints of a healthcare workforce, you can solve many of the problems around it. That includes workforce planning, staffing gaps, capacity management, compliance, workload visibility, coverage, and other operational decisions that happen around every shift.
We want PlanMyRounds to become the intelligence layer for healthcare workforce operations, with the shift at the center.
Built forward deployed
We don't believe the best healthcare software is built from a distance. We are forward deployed.
That means being close to the people doing the work. Sitting with hospital teams. Understanding how a roster is actually built, not how we think it should be built. Watching where things break. Building, deploying, learning, and improving alongside them.
Healthcare is full of edge cases that don't show up in a requirements document. A doctor calls in sick. A department suddenly needs another person. A leave request comes in after the roster is published. A schedule that looked fair on paper creates an impossible week for someone.
You only understand these problems properly when you are close to them.
That is how we have built PlanMyRounds so far, and it is how we intend to keep building it.
Where we're going
We are building from the most fundamental unit of healthcare workforce operations: the shift.
The shift tells us who is working, where they are working, when they are working, what coverage is required, and what constraints need to be respected. From there, we can understand the workforce around it.
Our ambition is to build the system that helps hospitals not just create schedules, but understand and operate their workforce better.
The shift is the starting point.
The workforce is the bigger opportunity.
How we think
People first.
Behind every shift is a person. A doctor, a coordinator, a HOD, a family waiting at home. We care about the human consequences of the systems we build.
Solve the real problem.
We are not interested in simply turning spreadsheets into screens. If a process takes hours, the goal should be to eliminate the work, not just digitise it.
Forward deployed.
We build with customers, not for customers. We stay close to the people doing the work, learn from reality, and let that shape the product.
Complexity should disappear.
Healthcare operations are complicated. The software should understand that complexity so the people using it don't have to.
Build for what comes next.
Scheduling is the starting point, not the destination. We want to understand the workforce deeply enough to solve the problems that sit around every shift.
Be honest.
We say what we know, what we don't know, and what isn't working. We would rather learn the truth early than build around a comfortable assumption.