Parrot.MD operates a mobile and web platform that connects hospitals directly with physicians and clinicians for short-term locum tenens assignments, without a traditional staffing agency in the middle. Hospitals post shifts and manage scheduling, recruiting, credentialing and payments in one place, while credentialed clinicians browse open shifts with rates shown in the app and are paid by direct deposit. The company works primarily with emergency medicine physicians and has been expanding to obstetricians and advanced practice nurses who administer anesthesia, with an emphasis on rural facilities. Nine rural hospitals in Minnesota were reported as staffed through the platform.