NATHO Forms Technology Committee to Develop Software Connectivity Standards

Altamonte Springs, Florida, February 22, 2010 —The National Association of Travel Healthcare Organizations, NATHO, has launched a technology steering committee to develop software connectivity standards that will allow healthcare staffing firms to automatically share data with Vendor Managed Service (VMS) firms. The committee, comprised of leading healthcare staffing firms and VMS firms, aims to rapidly develop a connectivity software standard for the healthcare staffing industry.

This future connectivity standard will largely eliminate the current industry practice, which is both extremely time consuming and expensive, whereby staffing firms manually enter candidates' data into a VMS firms' database and also manually enter job order information from the VMS firms' database into their own.

According to Mark Stagen, President of NATHO, "NATHO is extremely pleased with the formation of this committee and look forward to the progress of this software standard. We are also very excited to have the participation of so many leading healthcare staffing firms and VMS firms. This software connectivity standard will allow healthcare staffing firms to largely eliminate an extremely tedious and manual part of our industry, thereby allowing staffing firms to better focus their time and resources serving clients and candidates, rather than entering data."

For more information on NATHO, please visit the NATHO website at www.natho.org or E-mail info@natho.org.