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What this saves you
Right now, you hear about an Epic go-live when a consultancy recruiter posts for it, if you happen to be looking at that board that day. Health systems do not advertise that an implementation is behind schedule. By the time you find out, two firms are already staffing it.
The consultancies staffing it have to post the roles. MOLE reads those feeds and collapses every posting pointing at the same need into one row. The firms competing for it stack up beside it. That row is an opportunity.
opportunity = (city, state, platform, role_family)
The bet
Two consultancies both hiring Epic application analysts in the same metro this month means something is going live there, and whoever owns that program is short of people. That is a staffing conversation you can have before the RFP exists.
Note what is not in that key: the facility. Action 2 covers exactly what that costs you, with real numbers, because a public page that hid it would be selling vapour.
Three actions follow. Do them in order. This page is public on purpose, so if you have an account, work along in a second tab and open Healthcare IT. If you do not have one yet, read it straight through and decide from that whether it beats what you do today.
If you are already placing a specific consultant, have their platform, their certifications by module name, and whether they will travel in hand. Action 3 uses them. An Epic Cadence-certified analyst willing to go onsite is the ideal test case.
Action 1
Set your desk. Once.
You will never do this again. Everything after it is faster.
With about 300 rows you are not fighting volume, you are fighting relevance. An Epic Resolute biller and an Epic Cadence analyst are not interchangeable, and a client who hears otherwise stops taking your calls. Four settings.
Do this now
Set these four, in this order
1 · Platform. Epic, Oracle Cerner or Meditech. Pick what your bench actually knows. Only two platforms currently appear in live data, so expect thinner coverage on the third.
2 · Role Family. Application analyst, systems engineer, security, BI and data, integration, clinical informatics, HIM. This is the axis clients care most about.
3 · Certifications. The sharpest filter in the vertical. Certified Epic module expertise is scarce and priced accordingly. Filter to what your consultants actually hold and the feed becomes a shortlist.
4 · Engagement. Contract, Contract-to-Hire or Permanent. Set it to match what you sell. Contract-to-hire rows are the softest entry into a new account.
State, Agency, Confidence and Age are situational. Reach for them when a question comes up, not now. Geography here is the State filter only; there is no remote-versus-onsite control, so whether a role can be done remotely is something you read in the posting text.
Every filter, what it does and when to reach for it: Field Manual, section 04.
Action 2
Read the signal. MEDIUM is the top tier that exists.
Worth five minutes, because it tells you which plays work and which ones will waste your afternoon.
Set Confidence to MEDIUM. Not High. Healthcare IT is our newest vertical and it is not yet at parity with locum and interim. Measured against production on 29 September 2026:
309
live opportunity rows
18
MEDIUM tier, all of them multi-firm
68
highest confidence score in the vertical
Three things that do not work here yet
There is no HIGH tier. HIGH starts at 70 and the vertical's ceiling is 68, because up to 25 points of the score come from matching a posting to a verified facility, and HC IT rows have no facility attached. The High Confidence tile renders and returns nothing. Those 18 MEDIUM rows are your real list, and you can read all of them in one sitting, which is a luxury the locum desk does not have.
No facility drill-down, and no Favorites. Rows resolve to a city and a platform, not a named hospital. You will identify the system yourself from the posting text, and because starring needs a facility, the Favorites filter is empty here until that changes.
No MSP badges. Those hang off facility and health-system identity, so they cannot render here. Check MSP exposure manually before you invest in an account.
All three trace to one cause: the match engine currently processes locum and interim only. When that extends to IT, this callout stops being true and the locum playbook becomes available to you as written.
What that leaves is still a real edge, and it is the part least replicable by hand. Three signals decide whether you dial.
Firm count is urgency
A named certification is a scarcity signal
Repeat postings are a program they cannot fill
Open any row to see every individual posting with its title, scrape date and a link to the source. The system name is usually in the posting text or inferable from the consultancy involved. That is manual work MOLE will do for you once IT facility matching ships, and until then it is your audit trail and your talk track.
The full scoring model, all eight signals and their weights, is in the Field Manual, section 03. You do not need it today.
Action 3
Act. Two paths, one action.
Pick the path that matches what you are holding. One-person desks run both.
Who actually buys: read this before your first call
For an IT program the buyer is rarely the hospital's HR department and almost never the switchboard. The doors worth finding, roughly in order:
· The program or project owner for that implementation, usually an applications director or a PMO lead
· The CIO's office at a standalone system, which holds the budget
· The system's IT vendor management or procurement function at a large IDN, where consultancies are onboarded
· The consultancy's own delivery lead, when the practical route is sub-contracting into a program a firm already holds
Be clear about a limit: MOLE does not name the health system on these rows, and it holds no contact for them. You identify the system from the posting text, and finding the program owner is your own research. The row tells you where to look and what module to lead with.
Path A · Find programs
You have a platform bench and need programs to pitch into. You are working the MEDIUM list from Action 2. Take the row with the most firms on it, open the expansion, and identify the health system from the postings. Then find the program owner per the callout above. Lead with the certification the postings keep asking for, because that is the one thing the firms already on it have not been able to supply.
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Path A, for real, right now
Confidence MEDIUM, your platform, your role family. Take the row with the most firms on it. Open the expansion, identify the health system, and find the program owner. Lead with the module certification the postings keep asking for.
Nothing on your platform? Clear Role Family before you clear Platform. The platform is the credibility; the role family is the detail.
Path B · Market a consultant
Plan check
Hot docs are an Agent plan and above feature. Scout accounts see the teaser but cannot create one. Caps by plan: Agent 3 active, Handler 10, Operator 25, Enterprise unlimited. On Scout, read this anyway and then run Path A, which needs no upgrade.
A hot doc is a consultant you are actively marketing. Open Hot Docs, pick the Healthcare IT tab, upload the CV for parsing or enter the profile by hand. This is the path least affected by the facility gap: you are matching a consultant to a need, and the need is real whether or not MOLE has named the hospital.
Certifications by module name, not platform
Know what gates and what only scores
Read the reason, not the number
Keep the details the match cannot see
Two signatures before a name leaves your office
Before a consultant's name or CV goes to any system or consultancy, two things must already be signed.
1 · A right to represent from the consultant. Their written authorisation for you to present them to that program, by name. In IT staffing this matters more than anywhere: two vendors submitting the same consultant to one program usually gets both submissions thrown out.
2 · A vendor or client agreement with whoever pays. Rate, term and liability settled in writing, whether that is the health system or the consultancy you are sub-contracting to. Send a CV before that exists and you have handed over your candidate with nothing obliging anyone to pay you.
An anonymous profile needs neither, which is exactly why the first touch is anonymous. MOLE does not track either document. That lives in your ATS or CRM.
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Path B, for real, right now
Create one hot doc for the consultant you brought with you. Open their matches, take the top row, identify the system, and draft the first outreach using the certification match as the hook.
Pitch the consultant anonymously. No name, no CV attached. Something like: "Epic Cadence and Prelude certified analyst, available 15 November, will go onsite. You have two firms posting Cadence analysts in Tampa this month. Worth a conversation?" The name goes across once both signatures are in, not before.
Zero matches? Certifications are the usual culprit. Enter them as the specific module names, not the platform.
The rule
Your first 15 minutes, every morning
Before the phone. Before email. A lighter cadence than locum, because the feed is smaller, and the whole habit fits in a quarter of an hour.
Read the whole MEDIUM list
Keep your own target list
Once a week, audit one consultancy
Once a week, one hot doc per bench consultant
Track what you had to do by hand
Cut your prep time in half and your connect rate goes up on its own, because you are calling programs that are actually short-staffed.
When you want the depth behind any of this (the scoring model, every filter, how to read a card signal by signal), that is the Healthcare IT Field Manual. This page is the path; that one is the reference.
Next move
Run it on your own territory
Everything above works the same whether you read it first or sign in first. If you already have an account, open the Briefing Room and work the steps in a second tab. If you don't, the workflow is the product. This page is the honest version of what you'd be buying.