The healthcare staffing market is riddled with inefficiencies and unclear hiring processes. Hospital organizations habitually have traditional vendor management strategies that hide vital information, such as rate markups, candidate qualifications, time-to-fill, and regulatory compliance status. This transparency leads to inflated costs, increased vacancies, and inconsistent quality of care. Locum tenens staffing specifically is riddled with multi-intermediaries and disjointed communication. Locumsmart addresses this with a direct attack by introducing a technology-based solution that applies real-time transparency, control, and responsibility to the medical recruitment process.
What Locumsmart Does Differently
Locumsmart is a third-party vendor-agnostic, cloud-based workforce management system that centralizes and streamlines locum tenens provider recruitment. Unlike traditional staffing arrangements, rooted in third-party agencies working in silos, Locumsmart gives visibility to job postings, provider submissions, credential status, and contract terms all within one integrated dashboard. Health systems gain real-time visibility into what’s being submitted for what jobs, at what volume, and with what credentials, the result: healthcare staffing made efficient.
Rate Transparency That Eliminates Hidden Markups
One of the most significant advantages of using Locumsmart is rate transparency. In traditional models, agencies often markup provider rates significantly—sometimes over 50%—without revealing the provider’s actual pay rate. Locumsmart exposes these numbers. Health systems see how much is paid to the provider and allocated to the agency. That makes negotiating fair market rates easier, avoiding overpaying, and ensuring budget alignment.
Accelerated Time-to-Fill Through Direct Communication
Locumsmart enables direct communication between hiring managers and vendors, removing bottlenecks created by intermediary back-and-forths. Requests are posted in real-time and visible to all participating vendors simultaneously. That creates competitive urgency and significantly reduces the time required to fill a role. This faster response time is a measurable benefit in urgent care settings or rural hospitals, where delays can have critical consequences.
Compliance Tracking and Credential Management
Credentialing delays are a common barrier to onboarding locum tenens providers quickly. Locumsmart mitigates this through integrated credential tracking that provides status updates in real-time. Hospital administrators no longer need to chase down documentation via email chains or spreadsheets. The system flags missing items, expired licenses, and incomplete applications—keeping compliance front and center at all times.
Data-Driven Decision-Making
The platform also includes built-in analytics that allows the hospital to learn about hiring trends, vendor performance, and cost per hire over a specific duration. That helps make more informed decisions about which vendors to prefer, which specialties to staff at what expense, and where delays typically occur. Based on these findings, hospital systems can make anticipatory changes in strategy instead of responding to staffing shortfalls later.
Vendor Accountability and Transparency of Performance
Not all vendors are equal; older models do not give much recourse if vendors fail. Locum smart rates vendors based on response time, fill rates, credentialing speed, and compliance. Hospitals can leverage the ratings to identify high-performing partners and hold others accountable. That promotes healthy competition and increases the level of service for all.
Medical staffing inefficiencies cost time and dollars and ultimately impact patient care. Locumsmart’s open, centralized, and data-driven platform gives health systems the tools to regain control of their locum tenens hiring. It eliminates hidden costs, accelerates time-to-fill, improves compliance, and improves vendor accountability. For organizations dedicated to optimizing temporary medical staffing, Locumsmart is not just a technology—it’s a strategic advantage.
