Staffing management in a robust healthcare system is complicated, time-consuming, and fraught with opportunities for mistakes or missteps. 

<p>
  Staffing management in a robust healthcare system is complicated,
  time-consuming, and fraught with opportunities for mistakes or missteps.
  However, with staffing shortages and employee burnout at an all-time high,
  healthcare organizations need to streamline processes and increase workforce
  flexibility to position themselves for the future and ensure their survival.
</p>

<p>
  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 control of staffing via one
  centralized platform.
</p>

<p>
  Cross Country Healthcare invested in a national study of senior healthcare
  leaders to inform 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. Forty percent of the respondents said they were currently using a
  VMS.
</p>

<h2>Systems deliver security and efficiencies</h2>

<p>
  When asked what they liked most about their current VMS, the survey
  participants said security of data (57%), improved processes and efficiencies
  (49%), and reduced time to fill (38%) as the top three benefits.
</p>

<h2>What Do You Like Most About Your Current VMS?</h2>

<table>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>Security of data</td>
      <td style="width: 100px;">57%</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Improved processes and efficiencies</td>
      <td>49%</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Reduced time to fill</td>
      <td>38%</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Complete workforce visibility</td>
      <td>36%</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Ability to make more informed and better business decisions</td>
      <td>31%</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Risk mitigation</td>
      <td>31%</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Credential compliance management</td>
      <td>23%</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Access to better quality talent</td>
      <td>21%</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Candidate tracking</td>
      <td>21%</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Lower recruitment and hiring costs</td>
      <td>21%</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Usable analytics/interactive dashboards</td>
      <td>21%</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Enhanced procurement cycle visibility</td>
      <td>20%</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Supplier performance management and consolidation</td>
      <td>16%</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

<p>
  The most common tasks completed with the survey participant&#39;s current VMS
  platforms included viewing activity (61%), processing reports (43%), and
  confirming candidates (41%). Other frequent tasks included viewing
  analytics/financial data, approving requisitions, approving invoices, entering
  requisitions, approving timecards, and reconciling invoices.
</p>

<h2>Helpful analytics make systems easier to use</h2>

<p>
  A VMS can deliver a range of helpful and specific analytics that provide ease
  of use. Some of the most beneficial analytics cited by respondents included:
</p>

<ul>
  <li>Custom reports</li>
  <li>Data analytics</li>
  <li>Invoicing/bill paying</li>
  <li>Risk management</li>
  <li>Usable data</li>
  <li>Compliance</li>
  <li>Costs</li>
  <li>Data security</li>
</ul>

<p>
  When asked what specific analytics participants would like from their systems
  that are not currently being delivered, they said they would like to see key
  performance indicators (31%), spend tracking (26%), and supplier scorecards
  (25%) as the top three areas of need.
</p>

<p>
  Respondents cited the most important functions when working with a VMS were
  ease of use, followed by data security, access to qualified candidates,
  reporting, compliance, and tracking.
</p>

<p>
  A robust, automated VMS will find, engage and manage the labor force, and
  provide the following seven benefits:
</p>

<ol>
  <li>Increase visibility and transparency of the workforce</li>
  <li>Improve organizational efficiency</li>
  <li>Reduce costs</li>
  <li>Ensure compliance</li>
  <li>Reduce risks</li>
  <li>Create flexibility</li>
  <li>Save time</li>
</ol>

<p>
  To learn more, download the white paper by visiting
  <a href="/sites/cch/vms-white-paper" target="_blank">LINK</a>.
</p>

<hr />
<div>
  <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
  >
</div>

The Top Reasons For Using A Vendor Management System to Manage Staffing