One of the things I like about calendars in Outlook (and Mac Entourage) is that I can color-code types of events, so there are quick visual clues to the on-call schedule as opposed to meetings or vacations.
The trick with Google Calendar is for your practice to set up & subscribe to several private calendars. Each calendar can be color coded, and all can be displayed on a single page. For instance, my practice has several shared calendars: an on-call calendar (blue), a staff time-off calendar (orange), a physician time-off calendar (green), etc. In addition, many of us have a private calendar for personal appointments, kid events, etc., also displayed on the page.
Question that comes up there is, if ActiveSync will only move a user's primary calendar data to an iPhone, how can Google Calendar leverage the same synchronization utility to push a shared calendar to the mobile devices?
Apple's Calendar program on the Mac & iPhone can sync directly with Google Calendar.
