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The Healthcare Staffing Report Headline News (2.06.12 - 02.10.12)

2012-02-10T02:58:55-08:00

This weeks headline news stories from The Healthcare Staffing Report.

Here is a list of this weeks top Headline News:

Monday: Study: Nurses Spend 25% of Shift on Indirect Care

Tuesday: The Costs of Hiring Nurses

Wednesday: Breaking News: Concerro Acquired by API Healthcare

Thursday: Mandatory Overtime Regulations Found Effective

Friday: Healthcare to Add Most Jobs in Next Decade

This Weeks Top 5 most popular categories (based on number of articles read):

Top Industry News
Staffing Agencies
Social Media Marketing
Hospitals & Health Systems
Government & Economy

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What Customers Are Saying About Hively

2012-02-09T06:08:32-08:00

Over the last couple of months it's been great to work with and get feedback from so many new customers. It's your insight and feedback that helps drive what we deliver in Hively. Our goal with Hively is to build a simple, yet incredibly useful application for gathering customer feedback, measuring customer happiness and rewarding your team members. The more feedback on how we can do this the better.

We've dedicated a page on the Hively website to post some quotes from our customers about what they think of Hively. Give it a look and see for yourself what people are saying. If you have feedback you'd like to give us or feel like giving us a quote to post for you on this page you can contact us anytime and let us know.

Working with Hively is great. They do a great job of not only promoting good customer service, but of actually practicing it too!

- Jeanenne Kinnetz, Grapetree Medical Staffing

Breaking News: Concerro Acquired by API Healthcare

2012-02-08T10:17:53-08:00

Big news today in the healthcare staffing industry. Concerro has announced they have been acquired by API Healthcare. Concerro, is a provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) staffing and scheduling systems for healthcare.

Concerro’s products and client base are the perfect complement to API Healthcare’s existing solutions and markets,” said J.P. Fingado, president and chief executive officer, API Healthcare. “Working together we will reinforce our mutual commitment to innovation and dedication to the healthcare industry. This strategic move allows us to leverage a larger number of talented, diverse and clinically-based staff to deliver the high quality of service that separates API Healthcare from our competitors.

This acquisition further consolidates the tech staffing space for healthcare staffing. In recent years API acquired Clearview and Concerro acquired Res-Q Healthcare Systems. Having all of this tech under the banner of API Healthcare will further increase their dominance in the healthcare staffing industry.

Official Press Release: API Healthcare Acquires Concerro

Bullhorn Launches New Career Site: theFIT

2012-02-08T08:41:53-08:00

Bullhorn released another interesting product today: theFIT.

In there words:

theFIT.com is a place where job seekers and employees can get answers to those awkward questions that they really want to know, but would never ask.

Bullhorn claims the intent of theFIT is not a "dig-up-dirt site" but more about understanding the corporate culture of where people work or want to work.

What do you think?

Awesome Apps: CardMunch Turns Your Business Cards Into Contacts

2012-02-06T09:35:40-08:00

You know when you get back from a conference and you have 100's of business cards and you tell yourself you'll add them to your contacts but you never do - or you make someone else do it (and that person hates you)? Those days are over! At least they are if you have an iPhone.

Check out CardMuch. CardMunch turns your business cards into contacts by simply snapping a photo of them. Even better - CardMuch is a LinkedIn product so it will also pull in any profile information LinkedIn has for the person. Sweet!