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Nomad Health : the disruption of physician staffing services / Greg Licholai, Ayesha Khalid, Jaan Elias.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: London : Yale School of Management, 2017Description: 1 online resource : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781526444776 (ebook) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.10683
Online resources: In hospitals and practices there is a constant need for short-term doctors and nurses. The locum tenens agencies match doctors and nurses to hospitals in need of temporary staff. However, neither physicians nor hospitals were satisfied with the services existing brokers offered. The case outlines the creation of Nomad health by two neurosurgeons to provide a far more efficient and cheaper service in matching health care professionals to hospitals with labour shortages. The case invites the student to consider the difficulties of setting up Nomad Health and how the company could best gain advantages over its competitors.
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Originally published in Licholia, G., Khalid, A. & Elias, J. (2017). Nomad Health: The disruption of physician staffing services. 17-013. New Haven, CT: Yale School of Management, Yale University.

In hospitals and practices there is a constant need for short-term doctors and nurses. The locum tenens agencies match doctors and nurses to hospitals in need of temporary staff. However, neither physicians nor hospitals were satisfied with the services existing brokers offered. The case outlines the creation of Nomad health by two neurosurgeons to provide a far more efficient and cheaper service in matching health care professionals to hospitals with labour shortages. The case invites the student to consider the difficulties of setting up Nomad Health and how the company could best gain advantages over its competitors.

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