Lightning Bolt 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Lightning Bolt

3.0

(3)

Pricing

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About Lightning Bolt

Lightning Bolt offers a Provider Scheduling healthcare workforce management solution that is designed to streamline scheduling and communication for care managers, particularly within the healthcare industry. The Lightning Bolt platform integrates various features and capabilities to optimize scheduling, enhance productivity, and ensure patient access, catering to the specific needs of hospitals, health systems, physician groups, academic medical centers, and other healthcare organizations.

The Lightning Bolt Provider Scheduling solution is tailored to meet the complex scheduling requirements of healthcare organizations, providing them with advanced capabilities such as optimized scheduling, on-call solutions, analytics, and patient access optimization. These features are designed to address challenges in managing workforce schedules, mitigating clinician burnout, and optimizing operational efficiency.

The product is curated to cater to a wide range of healthcare specialties, including anesthesiology, cardiology, emergency medicine, hospital medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, radiology, and urgent care. It also offers support for various healthcare organizations, including hosp...

itals, health systems, academic medical centers, physician groups, and veterinary groups. Lightning Bolt's product strategy is centered around delivering targeted benefits to different healthcare stakeholders. For hospitals and health systems, the platform offers advanced scheduling capabilities to align resource supply with patient demand across the entire organization, ultimately driving operational efficiency, boosting physician satisfaction, and improving patient access. For physician groups, the solution focuses on auto-generating fair, balanced, and complete schedules that accommodate individual preferences, with the goal of improving work-life balance, reducing schedule creation time, and increasing staff and patient retention. Similar tailored benefits are provided for academic medical centers, ensuring requirements for teaching hospitals and complex scheduling needs are met. Notable customer success stories from leading healthcare organizations, such as the University of Kentucky Healthcare, Tower Health Emergency Medicine, and Ochsner Health Anesthesia Department, showcase the real-world impact of Lightning Bolt's healthcare workforce management solution. These success stories highlight significant improvements in reclaiming hours, automating and optimizing schedules, and increasing physician satisfaction. The product's key differentiator lies in its use of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) to power scheduling optimization. Lightning Bolt leverages AI through combinatorial optimization to rapidly identify the optimal schedule from numerous possibilities, considering multiple variables such as staff availability, skill sets, and shift preferences. This approach maximizes resource utilization while enhancing operational efficiency, staff satisfaction, and ultimately patient care. In addition to AI-driven scheduling, Lightning Bolt offers administrative features, scalable and reliable integrations, auto-generation and optimization of workflows, transparent scheduling, and dedicated support to ensure seamless deployment and adoption. The product's ability to integrate schedules with various healthcare systems, including payroll systems, electronic health records (EHR), call centers, OR systems, and secure communication platforms, streamlines care team coordination and supports operational workflows across healthcare organizations. Lightning Bolt's Provider Scheduling solution is positioned as a comprehensive, AI-powered, and user-centric platform that equips healthcare organizations with the tools to optimize scheduling, improve workforce management, and enhance patient care delivery. By leveraging innovative technology and tailored features, Lightning Bolt aims to deliver measurable value and improve operational outcomes for its clients in the healthcare industry.

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Lightning Bolt Features

Popular features found in Medical Scheduling
Appointment Management
Billing & Invoicing
Calendar Management
Faculty/Staff Management
HIPAA Compliant
Multi-Location
Patient Records Management
Recurring Appointments
Reminders
Reporting & Statistics
Self Service Portal
Third-Party Integrations
More features of Lightning Bolt
API
Automated Scheduling
Drag & Drop
EDI
EMR/EHR
For Anesthesiologists
Medication Management
On Call Scheduling
Patient Scheduling
Physician Management
Practice Management

Lightning Bolt User Reviews

Overall Rating

3.0

Ratings Breakdown

33%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

3.0

Value for money

3.0

Customer support

3.3

Functionality

3.3

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John A.

Hospital & Health Care

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed September 2017

Full Solution..

Best scheduling we've ever had.

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Pros:

Initially we started with Excel and tried another scheduling software and finally ended up with Lightning Bolt - glad we did, it has created the best schedule for us. The consultants at Lighting Bolt are great - training was straight forward and the software is easy to use. I'm assuming it is something with the algorithm but the software handles itself and fills any gaps in the schedule.

Cons:

Initial pricing seemed a bit out of our range - it's been worth it. Training takes a few weeks which I would like to be faster to start using asap.

Matt M.

Used unspecified for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed February 2017

Initially worked well, now practically unusable

We use this for a large physician group of 60, staffing 3 locations. The program initially seemed to do the job fairly well, but still required a lot of manual scheduling input on the part of the scheduler. Now, the system seems to be overwhelmed (I assume the servers can't keep up with the volume), and every time you input a single day request, there is up to a 45 second wait before the request goes through. In the interim, you can't make any other requests. It easily takes 30 minutes for a provider to enter their requests for a one month schedule.

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Value for money

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Pros:

Multiple request options and customizable

Cons:

Excessive lag time

Matt M.

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2017

Significant improvements made in response to my earlier review

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Schedule automatically populates my calendar on my iPhone. After my initial review, the company seemed to make improvements in the speed of their servers, so it does not take as long to input shift requests.

Cons:

Even with a wide computer monitor, it is not possible to view all of the days of the month on one screen without scrolling from side to side. The iPhone app is usable, but requires looking through too many potential shifts just to determine who is working on any given day.

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