A VMS can provide an automated process to find, schedule and manage healthcare staff. Users receive valuable and meaningful data to make informed hiring decisions, allowing facilities to control staffing via one centralized plat

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  Staffing at healthcare facilities across the country is complicated,
  time-consuming, and fraught with opportunities for mistakes or missteps
  &ndash; and this was before the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, the industry
  suffers from gross talent shortages and employee burnout, putting the sector
  into crisis mode. Healthcare organizations need to consider how to streamline
  staffing processes and build in workforce agility to position themselves for
  the future. Workforce flexibility will become increasingly vital to driving
  organizational agility and resilience.
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  A Vendor Management System (VMS) can provide an automated process to find,
  schedule and manage healthcare staff. Users receive valuable and meaningful
  data to make informed hiring decisions, allowing facilities to control
  staffing via one centralized platform. Work processes are streamlined, and
  efficiencies are gained, saving time and resources.
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    >Cross Country Healthcare invested in a national study of senior healthcare
    leaders to enhance its expertise in healthcare technology by gaining a pulse
    on the current state of VMSs in hospitals and healthcare facilities. In
    addition, we learned about the adoption, usage, strategic objectives, and
    challenges of VMSs in healthcare organizations and their role within the
    broader technology ecosystem</a
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  Forty percent of the survey participants said they currently use a VMS, 31%
  didn&#39;t know if they did or not, and 29% said they did not use a VMS. The
  participants cited more than 30 different VMS platforms, ranging from
  sophisticated and comprehensive end-to-end systems to rudimentary systems
  based on SharePoint, Google or Microsoft.
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<div>
  In our experience, a fully-functional VMS will provide visibility into the
  external workforce and deliver on seven core benefits, including:
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<ol>
  <li>
    <strong>Increased visibility and transparency of the workforce. </strong>Use
    one platform, which can be rebranded for each facility, to create and
    approve projects and requisitions, compare and interview candidates, extend
    offers, manage the onboarding and off-boarding processes, track leave,
    vacation and PTOs, and create and approve invoices.&nbsp;
  </li>
  <li>
    <strong>Improved organizational efficiency. </strong>From contract hiring to
    permanent placement, organizations will have access to an intuitive
    healthcare VMS that keeps critical information in one place. Review
    candidates, invoices, and time card submissions in one centralized platform.
  </li>
  <li>
    <strong>Reduced costs. </strong>More efficiently use resources and gain
    staffing transparency, enabling better cost control and ensuring competitive
    vendors. It will also help to identify overspending and improve overall
    budget management.
  </li>
  <li>
    <strong>Compliance confidence. </strong>Get dynamic, task-driven compliance
    with increased visibility for clients, suppliers and end-users. In addition,
    it includes insight and completion of all required certifications and
    automated reminders for expiring credentials to ensure timely renewals.
  </li>
  <li>
    <strong>Reduced risk. </strong>Access quality talent who have already been
    credentialed, reducing time on administration and ensuring consistency of
    care. Restrictive access is used to protect health information, and SOC 2,
    Type 2 certified internal controls are in place to safeguard customer data.
  </li>
  <li>
    <strong>Better flexibility. </strong>Robust analytics help create flexible
    tools such as a customized front-end report builder, including dashboards,
    key performance indicators, onboarding status, activity, and spend
    summaries. Gain access to supplier scorecards to aid performance management
    and assess how labor is best utilized.
  </li>
  <li>
    <strong>Time savings. </strong>Simplify and streamline recruitment in
    real-time with an automated process for most recent and standard
    requisitions that rely on end-user personas. The VMS shares vacancies with
    all vendors and returns a list of vetted healthcare staff to reduce
    unnecessary interviewing time. This means less time spent hiring, staffing,
    and invoicing and more time delivering quality patient care.
  </li>
</ol>


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  <small
    >This national survey was conducted with 153 senior administrators, IT
    personnel and other roles responsible for the selection, implementation
    and/or use of a VMS system at large hospitals, clinics and other types of
    healthcare facilities that hire healthcare staff. The online interviews were
    conducted from December 14, 2021, to January 6, 2022, by Bredin, an
    independent market research company located in Boston, MA, using a National
    Web Panel.</small
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Seven Reasons Why a VMS is Needed Now