Healthcare leaders are being asked to do the impossible.
Every day, CNOs, CHROs, and workforce leaders are expected to fill shifts faster, protect quality of care, manage rising labor costs, and support clinician morale; all while navigating staffing shortages and increasing operational complexity.
And yet, the tools they rely on to make these decisions haven’t kept up.
Today, staffing decisions are still largely driven by résumés, credentials, availability, and manual processes. Leaders spend countless hours toggling between systems, reviewing profiles that look identical on paper, and chasing information that should already be at their fingertips.
In fact, healthcare leaders can spend up to 90% of their time sourcing talent instead of leading their teams.
That’s not just inefficient — it’s unsustainable.
Filling shifts quickly shouldn’t require sacrificing confidence in who you’re bringing in. And leading healthcare organizations shouldn’t have to choose between speed and quality.
The Hidden Cost of Today’s Staffing Model
When contingent labor decisions are made with limited insight, the downstream impact is significant:
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- Longer time to fill, even when candidates are available
- Inconsistent quality, because past performance isn’t visible
- Higher administrative burden, pulling leaders away from patient care and team leadership
- Lower staff morale, when teams work alongside unfamiliar or underperforming resources
The reality is that traditional VMS platforms weren’t built to help leaders make better decisions. They tell you who is available. They don’t tell you who performs well.
In an environment where labor is the largest expense in healthcare and clinical outcomes are always on the line, that gap matters.
The Future of Contingent Labor Decisions Is Performance-Driven
What if staffing leaders could move beyond guesswork and gut checks? What if every sourcing decision was informed not just by credentials but by real-world performance?
That’s the future Hallmark is building.
With the upcoming release of Resource Intelligence, Hallmark is introducing a new layer of insight designed to fundamentally change how contingent labor decisions are made.
Rather than relying solely on static profiles and manual review, Resource Intelligence enhances traditional candidate data with aggregated performance evaluations and engagement history drawn from actual clinical experiences on the Hallmark platform.
The result? Faster decisions. Better matches. More confidence.
What Resource Intelligence Changes
Resource Intelligence is designed to help health systems:
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- Accelerate time to fill by quickly identifying proven performers
- Improve candidate quality using real performance insights, not assumptions
- Reduce manual effort and administrative burden for clinical and workforce leaders
- Make more confident decisions across all categories of contingent labor
And importantly, this intelligence isn’t limited to one workforce segment. Resource Intelligence supports smarter sourcing decisions across:
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- Agency-sourced candidates
- Internal resource pools
- Flexible workforce programs
By bringing performance-based insight directly into the sourcing workflow, Hallmark enables leaders to focus less on chasing information — and more on leading their teams.
Built for How Healthcare Actually Works
Healthcare staffing isn’t just about filling shifts. It’s about trust. Trust that the clinician walking onto the unit is prepared. Trust that your team won’t need to compensate for poor fit. Trust that faster decisions won’t compromise care.
Early customer feedback reinforces the value of combining workforce analytics with frontline clinical insight. As one health system leader shared, “Analytics at our fingertips are needed in our industry, but when we can add that human touch of feedback, that is where we become incredible.”
That combination — data plus real clinical experience — is what makes Resource Intelligence different. It’s not just more data. It’s the right data, surfaced at the moment decisions are made.
A New Standard for VMS Decision-Making
As healthcare labor continues to evolve, so must the systems that support it.
Workforce leaders shouldn’t be buried in sourcing tasks. They shouldn’t have to trade speed for certainty. And they shouldn’t be forced to manage today’s workforce with yesterday’s tools.
Resource Intelligence represents a new standard for contingent labor decision-making — one that puts performance, confidence, and efficiency at the center of every staffing choice.
Because the future of healthcare staffing isn’t just faster. It’s smarter.