by Kyt Dotson
Physician-founded workforce platform Saile App Inc. today announced it has raised $2.2 million in new funding to ease the mountains of paperwork for healthcare workers moving between healthcare organizations.
Saile is simultaneously launching with more than 5,000 physicians on the platform and a growing roster of healthcare facility partners across telemedicine, temporary, walk-in locations and consulting.
Healthcare suffers from an interesting problem when it comes to staffing professionals. For specialists, hospitals can spend thousands of dollars locating the perfect candidate, with the appropriate credentials, across the country and then fly them in, even when an equally capable candidate lives mere miles away. The blocker? A pile of paperwork.
Verification, background checks and licensing are often handed off to entirely separate entities, triggering a months-long back-and-forth among staffing agencies, credentialing firms and internal admin teams before a doctor can see a single patient. The frequency of this problem means doctors and facilities must build portfolios of practice documents and partnerships with vendors just to operate.
