Portland, OR-based ShiftWise has a new licensing and co-marketing agreement with Cross Country Staffing, the largest travel nurse and allied health staffing division of Boca Raton, FL-based Cross Country Healthcare, Inc.

Under the agreement, Cross Country Staffing plans to implement ShiftWise technology to administer its vendor management program where Cross Country Staffing is the exclusive or preferred nurse staffing vendor.

In this capacity, Cross Country Staffing typically incorporates orders from hospital clients, screens and interviews candidates, manages the credentialing process and acts as the central point of contact and invoicing for the healthcare facility.

The vendor-neutral ShiftWise solution will replace Cross Country Staffing's existing proprietary technology and will add significant new features.

Under the co-marketing agreement, Cross Country Staffing will also promote ShiftWise's services and technology to its national client base of hospitals and healthcare facilities. 

"We expect that the ShiftWise technology will enable us to enhance customer satisfaction with our staffing service by reducing the time it takes to fill orders, by streamlining the invoicing and financial reporting process and by improving our agency management capabilities," said Jonathan W. Ward, President of Cross Country Staffing.

"One of our goals is to help our clients improve staffing efficiency and reduce overall costs," Ward added. "To accomplish this in the current and future recruitment environment characterized by a deepening nursing shortage, we believe healthcare organizations should consider adopting vendor neutral technologies such as the Shiftwise solution."

ShiftWise's Web-based automated staffing management solution offers a suite of services currently in use by more than 250 hospitals nation-wide.

With ShiftWise, hospital clients can manage their internal staffs and order resources from external staffing companies like Cross Country Staffing over the Web.

No longer do healthcare employers have to fear the administrative burden of the staffing process - they can now manage it online with ease, from anywhere at any time.

"Cross Country is a leader in the healthcare staffing market, and hospitals around the country depend on its services to keep their vendor management operations running smoothly," said Steve Schwartz, CEO of ShiftWise.

"ShiftWise is honored to provide a key technology component to Cross Country's vendor management program. We understand how important the company's customers are to them and are firmly committed to helping them attract and retain business through value-added service."

For more information online about Cross Country Staffing and its various brnads - Cross Country TravCorps, NovaPro, Cross Country Local and Assignment America - visit www.crosscountrystaffing.com

For more information about ShiftWise online, visit www.shiftwise.net