ShiftMed, Skilltrade Join Forces to Strengthen Healthcare Talent Pipelines

ShiftMed, a leading healthcare AI workforce optimization platform, announced a strategic partnership with Skilltrade, a workforce training organization, to integrate allied health education directly into its workforce ecosystem. Through this collaboration, ShiftMed will offer Skilltrade's training programs to health systems and clinicians as an extension of its platform, enabling healthcare organizations to build sustainable talent pipelines for critical allied health roles. This partnership helps address hospital workflow challenges by tackling one of the most pressing issues in healthcare today: a structural shortage of credentialed allied health professionals.

Skilltrade's AI-based personalized learning simulations combined with human-to-human support deliver turnkey training programs with live instruction, hands-on labs, and certification prep, built for working adults and workforce partners.

By combining ShiftMed's AI workforce optimization technology with Skilltrade's immersive curriculum, the partnership delivers a comprehensive solution for long-term workforce stability. In addition to managing existing labor pools, healthcare organizations can now develop new clinical talent, from both internal and external candidate pools, directly through the platform.

"Healthcare organizations require more than immediate labor capacity; they need strategic solutions that architect a sustainable pipeline," said Todd Walrath, CEO of ShiftMed. "By partnering with Skilltrade, we are giving our clients the ability to not only optimize the workforce they have today but to actively engineer the credentialed workforce they need to solve the workflow challenges of tomorrow."

With this partnership, health systems can seamlessly move from identifying workflow gaps to developing and deploying qualified talent.

"Healthcare employers are navigating a complex and fragmented workforce ecosystem," said Jason Aubrey, CEO of Skilltrade. "Our role is to simplify that complexity, bringing AI-enabled training, funding navigation, and workforce partnerships together into one coordinated solution. Partnering with ShiftMed allows us to deliver that value at scale."

This collaboration builds on ShiftMed's continued investment in innovative workforce solutions that help health systems reduce reliance on contract labor and associated costs, improve retention through internal career pathways, strengthen long-term workforce stability, and enhance care delivery.