Can Nomad Health Cure Your Staffing Woes?

By Patricia Salber MD, MBA (@docweighsin

Alexi Nazem is a Harvard and Yale-trained physician and the co-founder of an interesting and quite useful healthcare company called Nomad Health. Nomad has created a digital platform that helps healthcare professionals (doctors and nurses) looking for work connect with healthcare facilities (hospitals, clinics, offices) looking for staff without the need to go through a third-party recruiter or broker. The focus is on filling positions on a temporary basis (locum tenens), but some people find permanent jobs as well.

I invited Alexi to join me via podcast so I could learn more about the company. You can listen to the podcast here: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/docweighsin/2018/02/14/solving-clinician-shortages-with-nomad-health. Or, if you prefer, you can read the interview (transcribed, condensed, and edited for readability) below:

The problem

Pat: Let’s start by having you describe what is the problem that you’re trying to solve with Nomad?

Alexi: Sure. So, as you probably, and many of your listeners, know very well, there is a huge shortage of clinicians in the United States. There’s just not enough doctors and nurses to take care of everybody in the country or, at least, we’re not using the resources we have…