Practice staffing · Healthcare jobs marketplace
Vivian Health
Vivian Health is a San Francisco healthcare jobs marketplace, owned by IAC, that helps nurses and other clinicians compare travel, staff, local contract, and per diem openings across agencies and employers.
Strong fit
- Travel nurses and allied clinicians comparing pay packages across agencies
- Employers and staffing firms that want marketplace distribution
- Clinicians who want pay transparency and one profile for many applications
Weak fit
- Facilities that only want a private float pool with no agency listings
- Health systems that need managed staffing delivery instead of a job board
- Clinicians who need specialty detail that some listings still omit
Bottom line
Vivian aggregates healthcare jobs with pay ranges and recruiter chat, and it reports 2.7 million clinicians and more than $1.5 billion in labor spend facilitated. In January 2026 Bill Kong became CEO after co-founder Parth Bhakta moved to executive chairman, and the company said it was profitable. App Store reviewers like multi-agency search and pay comparison, and they complain about duplicate listings and weak specialty filters.
Score breakdown
Weights: Outcomes 35% · Product 30% · Implementation 20% · Pricing clarity 15%.
Vivian Health's users are nurses and allied health clinicians; staffing agencies and health employers list jobs. Clinicians build one profile, filter travel, staff, local contract, per diem, and locum roles, see pay ranges, and chat with recruiters. The homepage recently showed hundreds of thousands of travel jobs and tens of thousands of staff roles. A January 2026 PR Newswire release said Vivian supports 2.7 million clinicians and facilitates more than $1.5 billion in healthcare labor spend a year.
The clinician app is free. Employer and agency pricing is by quote. Among companies we review, ShiftMed sells shift filling with its own W-2 network, while Vivian is a marketplace across many agencies. Staffingly and Staffing For Doctors serve different staffing niches.
Parth Bhakta and Eric Conner founded Vivian (earlier NurseFly) in 2017. IAC owns the company. In January 2026 Bhakta became executive chairman and Bill Kong, previously president and COO, became CEO. The release said Vivian had grown revenue more than 50x since the IAC acquisition and was profitable. Vivian has an estimated $75 million in annual revenue.
The iOS app has a 4.8 out of 5 average from about 27,000 ratings on the App Store. Clinicians praise applying to many agencies from one profile and comparing pay. Common complaints are duplicate postings, location filters that miss, and listings that omit specialty detail.
What clinicians say
What people like
"I love that I can essentially load up my profile and apply to a multitude of jobs from multiple companies and sort those jobs by specifics of state, shift, pay, permanent or travel jobs." App Store
"Vivian is a great tool and it helped me find a job in a few days after looking on my own for a few years." App Store
"I do like this app, it's a great place to see a very broad view of what contracts are out there." App Store
What people don't like
"My biggest complaint is you can't see what specialty the contract is on any of them so when you click interested you have to ask the recruiter." App Store
"The same job is posted multiple times with different recruiters for different pay packages." App Store
Competitor landscape
| Vendor | Overall | Ease of implementation |
|---|---|---|
| MEDVA | 7.8 | 7.4 |
| DocVA | 7.6 | 7.8 |
| Vivian Health | 7.2 | 7.2 |
| Staffingly | 7.1 | 7.2 |
| ShiftMed | 7.0 | 7.0 |
Pricing
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Model | Free for clinicians. Agencies and employers pay for marketplace access and hiring. Pricing is by quote. |
| What usually drives cost | Listing volume, specialty mix, and whether VIP or AI screening features are included. |
| What to ask before you buy | Ask Vivian how job quality is moderated, how duplicates are handled, and what employers pay per hire or per seat. |
Leadership
Bill KongChief Executive Officer- Parth BhaktaCo-founder and Executive Chairman
- Eric ConnerCo-founder and Chief Technology Officer
Recent news
- January 2026: Vivian Health appointed Bill Kong CEO. Co-founder Parth Bhakta became executive chairman, and the company said it was profitable after growing revenue more than 50x since IAC's acquisition. PR Newswire
Methodology
| Weight | Factor | What it measures |
|---|---|---|
| 35% | Customer outcomes | Whether buyers get measurable operational or clinical-workflow results after go-live |
| 30% | Product | Capability depth, reliability, and fit for the job the category buys |
| 20% | Implementation | How hard it is to stand up, integrate, train, and stabilize |
| 15% | Pricing clarity | Whether a buyer can model total cost without a mystery quote |
| Label | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Highly recommend | Strong outcomes and product with manageable caveats |
| Recommend | Solid fit for the right buyer; know the tradeoffs |
| Conditional | Only with a specific use case or heavy caveats |
| Not recommended | Avoid for most buyers in this category |
Read our full methodology for how we weight scores and assign recommend labels.