What’s Inside?
An open physician shift can delay care, strain a service line, and push a health system into paying premium rates just to keep coverage in place. See how UPMC moved beyond whiteboards and spreadsheets to a centralized physician workforce model, and what it saved.
Why physician coverage gaps are becoming a bigger risk for academic medical centers and large health systems — and why the physician shortage (projected up to 86,000 doctors by 2036) is accelerating the problem
The real reason hospitals lose control of locum tenens spend — not one big decision, but hundreds of small, disconnected ones
The “Hospital Workforce Hierarchy” model — how a coordinated program prioritizes internal talent before outside vendors
A practical checklist: what to look for in a modern locum tenens platform
Lessons for large health systems ready to move from reactive staffing to strategic workforce management
Proven Results
How a Leading Healthcare Enterprise Cut Over 51 Million in Locums Spend
When UPMC, a 40-hospital health system, moved from fragmented, whiteboard-and-spreadsheet tracking to a centralized, technology-enabled workforce model, the results showed up directly in cost and coverage. Here’s what changed.
$51.3 M
Total cost savings in just 4 years.
$18.3M
Savings in program spend in 2025
30%
Savings by shifting gap coverage to float pool
Straight from VeloSource’s CEO
“Hospitals do not lose control of locum tenens in one big decision. They lose control through hundreds of small decisions that are made in good faith but without shared visibility.
A modern platform gives every stakeholder the same source of truth, so coverage, cost and vendor decisions can be managed as one system instead of many separate emergencies.”