Make Your Nomination for the Staffing Industry Innovator Award

The Staffing Industry Analysts is asking for nominations for the "Staffing Innovator of the Year" award. The award will go to honor a person or company that has contributed a significant innovation toward the positive development of the staffing industry ecosystem.

No doubt you're having a hard time deciding between a certain healthcare staffing blogger or a particular healthcare VMS company that has completely changed how hospitals manage their staffing agencies across the U.S. However, don't forget about the other companies out there also doing there part to innovate this industry:

• Med Staff On-Call - In the very near future Med Staff On-Call's approach to staffing could become the medical staffing industry standard. Their entire recruitment and on-boarding process is done on-line with technology. They also communicate job orders and receive confirmations from their staff in the same way. This process allows them to save their clients money, pay their staff more and keep their overhead low. A truly winning business model.

• Clearview - Clearview makes the best product on the market for managing your business as a staffing agency. There is no second. They also have a suite of other products for nurse competency testing, recruiting, application tracking, online clinical skill checklists and electronic signature documents. They continue to put out new products and grow their already impressive market share.

• TempWorks - TempWorks makes great software for staffing agencies. It's not specific to healthcare so I can't say that I've used it or even seen that much of it. However, following their updates and blog - Staffing Talk - makes it clear that these guys are big innovators in the  staffing industry.

• Amistaff - Amistaff is the parent company of Nurse Testing, eSig Tech and Blue Sky Medical Staffing Software. More healthcare staffing companies use Nurse Testing than any other similar product on the market. Currently, Amistaff is planning on launching a new product called Prophecy in early 2010. This product will incorporate clinical, behavioral and situational assessments with their Nurse Testing product. If it lives up to the hype it could prove to be a game changer for hospitals recruit, screen and hire healthcare staff.

• ShiftHound - The former founders of Bidshift (now Concerro) have started a new company called ShiftHound. ShiftHound delivers a very light weight, yet robust core scheduling tool for hospitals to manage their day to day staffing. ShiftHound is the first of many companies to follow that will challenge incumbent staffing software companies in this space with a more focused, simple and light weight solution. It will be worth watching how they navigate the challenges of the industry. Also, I'm dying to know if these guys left because the new owners of Concerro got their name wrong.

• Medical Solutions - They may appear to be your average size agency doing business as usual. However, their use of social media and having the #1 page rank spot for healthcare staffing blog definitely makes them stand out from the crowd. The information they provide to the industry is valuable and makes them good contenders for industry innovators.

Help promote the industry by participating in this award nomination. Also, be sure and leave a comment if you think there are other companies out there deserving of a nomination.

Alright - get on it. Make your nomination for the staffing industry innovator award. And remember - it's Staffing Robot - with a space between the words. ;-)

Comments

[twitter.com/voicescreener]

VoiceScreener is doing something very different than anyone else in the staffing industry. We provide a recruitment tool that drastically cuts down the time to hire and gets candidates through the process far quicker. This is all done with a mere phone and an email. Multiple medical staffing firms have had tremendous results with it but most of the industry does not yet know about it.

What do you think?

Adam @ http://voicescreener.com/

[Jason Lander]

Hey Adam - Thanks for bringing Voice Screener to my attention. I'll check you guys out!

[Jeff Long]

Nice list Jason I need to check some of these out. BTW thanks for mentioning us.

[Jason Lander]

Thanks Jeff. Yeah - lots of great companies doing innovative things in this space. You guys included.

[Jeff Long]

This is a pretty cool idea by them too.

[Jon Admin]

This is a really awesome list and I'm glad to see that ShiftHound is on there -- they really have a nice application. Another app that folks may want to try, which is similarly light weight, is helloscheduling.com.

[Vince]

I'm surprise to see Concerro only get a mention and not listed as a candidate for the award. This past year we've released a full core scheduling product to accompany our open shift management product (TSM). We were recipient of Boss's Best in SaaS aware and Red Herring's Most Promising Private Tech companies. Might want to give us another look Jon. Thanks.

[Jason Lander]

Hi Jon,

Yes, Concerro is doing a lot of great things. With their recent acquisition of ResQ and release of their new iPhone app they continue to innovate. I chose to mention ShiftHound in the category for core scheduling because their product and model presents a different approach to the market.

I'd love to learn more about the concerro products. Please email if you'd like to discuss further.