The best VMS and healthcare staffing software for hospitals in 2026 helps health systems manage contingent labor, vendor relationships, and compliance in one platform.
Vendor-neutral VMS puts hospitals in full control of their staffing spend and vendor relationships.
True neutrality means the hospital owns the VMS platform, not an MSP or staffing agency.
MSPs can limit transparency and vendor competition, increasing costs and reducing control.
Independent VMS drives cost savings,
There’s an old finance joke: ask a mathematician, “What’s two plus two?” you get 4. Ask an accountant, “What do you need it to be?” Numbers can tell very different stories depending on who’s adding them up. In healthcare staffing, MSP fees are a perfect example: they don’t just skim
In the ever-evolving landscape of staffing agencies, especially within healthcare, the pursuit of efficiency, compliance, and precision is constant. Every decision about technology adoption carries weight, potentially shaping both operational effectiveness and financial outcomes. With a plethora of software solutions on offer, the pivotal question emerges: Is healthcare-specific staffing software
Long term, is it realistic to get rid of all of your agency nurses? Jacalyn Liebowitz of Adventist Health doesn’t think so. Watch as she explains why “agency is AN answer, but it’s not the only answer.”
What’s all the talk about supposed MSP ‘Vendor Neutrality’ in healthcare staffing? Now that the contract labor spend is dropping for most hospitals around the country, many are taking a closer look at how their supply chain for temporary personnel is performing. Prudent executives realize the drop in contract labor
In April of 2024, Tim Teague, President of BlueSky Synergy, joined a team from Adventist Health to discuss why they decided to become their own MSP, how they run their internal staffing agency and how it generates revenue to help fund other healthcare staffing initiatives.
On March 20, 2024, BlueSky President Tim Teague and Adventist Health Program Manager, Agency Staffing Office, Joe Heilman discuss how Adventist went from a cost center to profit center with the help of BlueSky VMS. Watch the full broadcast below!
The landscape of healthcare staffing agencies in the U.S. has shifted significantly, with fewer agencies dominating the market. This trend can be attributed to several factors: Rise of Managed Service Providers (MSPs): The emergence of MSPs in the healthcare industry has played a pivotal role. MSPs streamline the process
Post-pandemic era healthcare labor costs rose to crisis levels across the country. Much of these costs were fueled by the sudden surge in agency nursing labor costs. Supplemental labor became a growing percentage of total workforce expense. Since workforce comprises the greatest cost to healthcare institutions, this caused financial stress
BlueSky Medical Staffing Software today announced an innovative feature to its flagship platform. The BlueSky Network establishes a direct connection between participating staffing agencies and the hospitals they staff when both are connected to the BlueSky Network. Reducing duplicate work and speeding time-to-fill, both the agency and hospital will benefit
Managed Service Providers (MSP) utilizing Vendor Management Systems (VMS) or Workforce Management Systems have been a part of U.S. commerce for decades, starting with Ford Motor Company and moving across all market verticals.
As the pandemic has begun to wane, lingering questions remain. Not the least of which is how much worse staffing shortages became during this period, while the largest healthcare staffing firms enjoyed record breaking profits.
If your hospital system is using travel nurses, it is very likely you are using technology called “VMS” or (Vendor Management Solution). The entities that use this technology are called “MSPs”, (Managed Service Providers). Although these tools have been used for decades in non-clinical settings, they didn’t appear in great
Explore how healthcare staffing MSP/VMS ownership impacts vendor neutrality, market control, and opportunities for staffing agencies seeking fair access.