You should take your technology and apply it to the nursing industry. I've been saying it for years: Healthcare is an inefficient marketplace. Hospitals always have a hard time filling nursing demand, so they go to extraordinary lengths. For instance, we currently live in Portland, OR rent free while my wife makes more than she would if she lived here, all because they don't have enough nurses. My wife has a recruiter, who sends her loads of paperwork.
There's totally a startup that could make a lot of money. Maybe start out as software for recruiters to manage their "inventory" of nurses? Then expand into a full on marketplace, eventually disinter-mediating said agencies.
There are already quite a few products that do exactly that. I work for one of those companies - we specialise in nurse scheduling (though also cover doctors and other healthcare staff), and have systems that both manage the hospital's demand (and using their own permanent and temp nurses), and systems for agencies to manage their 'inventory' to fill the gaps. You're right that it's a massive problem and therefore there is a good market here. The full on marketplace idea is also starting to be a possibility but isn't really a big deal yet.
It's also (unsurprisingly) really complex and I'm sure very far from their wine marketplace technology!
Yeah, Traci is a travel nurse. She's also done "registry" nursing, which is like local agency nursing on a shorter term basis. When she was a registry nurse, she would work at different hospitals, once or twice a week.
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You should take your technology and apply it to the nursing industry. I've been saying it for years: Healthcare is an inefficient marketplace. Hospitals always have a hard time filling nursing demand, so they go to extraordinary lengths. For instance, we currently live in Portland, OR rent free while my wife makes more than she would if she lived here, all because they don't have enough nurses. My wife has a recruiter, who sends her loads of paperwork.
There's totally a startup that could make a lot of money. Maybe start out as software for recruiters to manage their "inventory" of nurses? Then expand into a full on marketplace, eventually disinter-mediating said agencies.
There are already quite a few products that do exactly that. I work for one of those companies - we specialise in nurse scheduling (though also cover doctors and other healthcare staff), and have systems that both manage the hospital's demand (and using their own permanent and temp nurses), and systems for agencies to manage their 'inventory' to fill the gaps. You're right that it's a massive problem and therefore there is a good market here. The full on marketplace idea is also starting to be a possibility but isn't really a big deal yet.
It's also (unsurprisingly) really complex and I'm sure very far from their wine marketplace technology!
I would like to hear more about taking advantage of the "Hospitals always have a hard time filling nursing demand"
My wife is a nurse and we are moving to a new city soon. Seems like a good time to optimize her employment if we can.
With free rent it sounds like she is part of a travel nursing program or something like that?
Yeah, Traci is a travel nurse. She's also done "registry" nursing, which is like local agency nursing on a shorter term basis. When she was a registry nurse, she would work at different hospitals, once or twice a week.