Our Approach
What Workforce Management Means at VeloSource
VeloSource treats contingent clinical labor as a planned, strategic part of your staffing model, not an emergency response. We work closely with your team to understand where coverage gaps actually come from, whether that’s a seasonal surge, a hard-to-fill specialty, or a structural shortfall in a specific department. From there, we build a pipeline of qualified providers well before a shift needs to be filled, so you’re not scrambling at the last minute.
Locum placements get coordinated directly with your broader staffing strategy, working alongside your internal float pool and permanent hiring plans. Over time, this means the same coverage gaps stop showing up again and again, and your team can build real staffing stability.
Get The Terms Right
MSP, VMS, and ATS vs. Workforce Management: How They Differ
Three tools show up in most staffing conversations, and mixing them up costs hospitals money. A Vendor Management System (VMS), a Managed Services Provider (MSP), and an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) each solve a different problem, and most programs eventually need all three working together.
VMS
A VMS is technology. It’s the platform that routes open requisitions through approval chains, centralizes agency submissions, verifies credentials before a provider ever steps on site, and gives your team real-time dashboards on spend and fill rates. A VMS hands you the infrastructure. Your team still has to interpret the data and drive the decisions.
MSP
Syncx MSP gives health systems a smarter way to manage locum tenens staffing. Built specifically for locums, it brings every vendor under a single agreement with streamlined rates, so your team spends less time on paperwork and more time on strategy. Custom dashboards and real-time reporting put the data you need at your fingertips.
ATS
An ATS runs your permanent hiring pipeline. Syncx Perm ATS gives recruiters one platform for sourcing, credentialing, and tracking physician candidates, backed by a database of verified providers and AI-driven outreach that gets an opening in front of the right candidate faster. The stronger the ATS, the fewer permanent roles ever end up covered by a locum in the first place.
| Term | What It Is? | What It Solves? |
|---|---|---|
| VMS | The technology layer tracking vendors, spend, credentials, and fill rates | Visibility into a program your team still runs day to day |
| MSP | A partner that manages a health system’s outside staffing needs on its behalf. | Time and forecasting capacity most internal teams don't have room for |
| ATS | Technology that runs your permanent physician and provider hiring pipeline | Faster, higher-quality permanent hires, so fewer roles default to a locum |
WorkForce Management
VeloSource brings your VMS, MSP, ATS, float pool, and permanent hiring together in one connected program. Syncx provides the technology and our team manages the strategy, so contract labor, internal float coverage, and permanent recruiting all run on the same data instead of in separate systems. The result is one partner, one view of your workforce, and clear guidance on the best way to fill each need, whether that’s a float pool provider, a locum through your MSP, or a permanent hire.
Understanding The VeloSoure Tiers
How The Model Works
VeloSource organizes every client program into four tiers, prioritizing coverage from the most sustainable option toward the most expensive one:
Internal Staff and Permanent Placement
Your own physicians, filling roles permanently through our Syncx Perm ATS. AI-powered sourcing across verified providers, automated credential verification, and enterprise-wide visibility into every requisition keep this tier the lowest-cost, most stable coverage a role can have.
Float Pool and Dedicated Providers
A pool of vetted providers, sometimes VeloSource-employed as Employer of Record, sometimes client-employed, who self-select shifts through a mobile app and cover recurring gaps at 20 to 30 percent lower cost than agency coverage.
Managed Staffing Program for Contract Labor
A centralized layer, powered by our Syncx platform, that standardizes contract terms, consolidates every vendor onto one invoice, and reports on spend and utilization in real time.
Network of Selected Vendors
A vendor-neutral panel of staffing agencies, standardized on rate and terms, that covers what the first three tiers can’t reach yet. Most hospitals rely heavily on agency coverage today. We help you reduce that reliance over time by shifting more coverage to your float pool and permanent hires.
Most clients start with a dedicated, on-site VeloSource resource embedded in their team at no additional charge. That person learns your culture, your scheduling patterns, and your specific coverage gaps before recommending which tier of the model to lean on for each site or specialty.
Why It Works
Benefits To Clients
Time back for your team. VeloSource fields vendor solicitations, tracks candidate presentations, manages locums scheduling, and checks invoice accuracy, so your staff isn’t doing that work on top of their real jobs.
Results you can verify. Health systems on this model have cut per-hour locums rates by $50 to over $200 depending on specialty, and shifted close to half of total coverage into lower-cost float pool and internal resources.
Decisions based on data. Real-time reporting on utilization by specialty, site, and dollar amount replaces guesswork with numbers you can act on.
One invoice instead of several. Standardized contract terms, billing rates, and travel and overtime requirements across every vendor you use.
Next Steps
How Clients Get Started
01
STEP ONE
Workforce Optimization Review
VeloSource audits your current locums spend, contract terms, and float pool utilization to find where cost and inefficiency are hiding.
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STEP TWO
Cost Containment & Savings Analysis
You get a specific, numbers-based picture of what a Workforce Solutions program would save at your organization.
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STEP THREE
Reference Calls
Talk directly with health systems running this model today, including teams at BJC and UPMC.
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STEP FOUR
Live Demo
See the Syncx platform in action, from float pool scheduling to real-time spend reporting.
Trusted by Leading Health Systems
“The platform is easy and user-friendly. Any issues I do have, I know that I can make a quick call or send a message, and I will be given help in a timely and friendly manner. As a newer user of the software, I can attest that I wish ALL of my Doctors were using Syncx!”
Candra Stablein
UPMC