Can you compete in the Olympics as a Vendor Management System?

As we all watch the world’s greatest athletes compete in London, from across the globe, it’s often easy to think only of the competition that unfolds daily. In reality, when these athletes perform their sport, those few seconds or minutes are the culmination of years of daily preparation.  As young athletes, these individuals started at […]

Macroeconomics of Vendor Management Systems

Vendor management systems have been a part of US commerce for decades, starting with the Ford Motor Company and moving across all other industries. Such systems were not invented with the advent of electronic data managements, but they have evolved to maximize the use of technology. These vendor mangement systems provide both operational and financial […]

HealthCare Industry in Flux

The recent ruling by the Supreme Court to uphold the major tenets of the Obamacare plan will not serve to quell the long and contentious debate over how to fund healthcare.  On the contrary, the court bypassed the individual mandate issue by calling it a “tax”, but moved to eliminate the forced compliance by states […]

Obamacare and the Healthcare Staffing Industry

The somewhat surprise affirmation by the Supreme Court this past week for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) has levered up the game of “chicken” that many states are playing with the state sponsored exchanges and Medicaid changes. With the wheels of bureaucracy continuing to creep forward with full implementation, it serves the […]

Why a Double-Dip Recession Would Not Devastate Healthcare Staffing

My prior blog explained some of the anomalies of the last recession and how it severely impacted revenues in the healthcare staffing industry. If a worst-case scenario happens this year, and the US is faced with a double dip recession, the staffing industry will not be hurt as badly as was the case in 2009.

How Automation Has Entered Healthcare Staffing Recruiting

As the number of unemployed workers remains high along with another new graduating class from colleges around the country, the number of applicants per job posted is reaching historic levels in all professions. In many industries, including the healthcare staffing industry,  the sheer volume of applicants has resulted in a reliance on more automated methods […]

3 Ways to Utilize Candidates to Source Healthcare Staffing Clients

No matter how many viable candidates are in your database, the law of supply and demand will always mandate amount of revenue you can generate. In short, the more candidates you have to place (supply), the more clients (demand) you will need to service. Obviously any successful healthcare staffing firm will be working on both […]