Healthcare
VisionSync keeps your strategic plan moving across every hospital, service line and department, so leaders always know where the plan stands without chasing anyone for an update.
30 minutes, built around your own plan.
One plan
across every hospital, service line and department, in your own words
One owner
on every initiative, with progress posted by the people doing the work
within 90 days
from a free sandbox to live, with training and support from our team
The situation
Most hospitals have a good plan. The trouble starts after it’s approved, when the plan has to move through dozens of departments run by people who are already stretched thin.
The plan lives in a deck
It gets presented to the board and then sits in a slide deck and a spreadsheet that one person tries to keep current.
Updates arrive by email
Before every board meeting, someone chases each leader for a status and pastes the replies together by hand.
Leaders can’t see the whole picture
Department heads know their own piece, but nobody can easily see how the whole plan is doing or what’s falling behind.
Every report starts over
The board, the quality committee and each hospital want their own view, and each one gets rebuilt from scratch.
If your plan is only up to date the week before the board meets, the plan isn’t the problem. Where it lives is.
One plan, every unit
Healthcare strategic planning starts with the plan your board approves, then connects each department’s work to the goal it supports. Each hospital, service line and department keeps its own part of the plan in its own words, and their progress adds up to the system goals above them.
Your structure, your words. Pillars, goals, strategies, tactics or whatever your board calls them.
Every unit has a place. Hospitals, service lines, departments and councils, as deep as your organization goes.
One owner on every initiative. So there’s never a question about who gives the update.
Progress adds up on its own. When a department moves, the system goal above it moves too.
Visibility
Everyone from the CEO to a unit manager sees the part of the plan that matters to them, with status that comes straight from the people doing the work. Track the KPIs behind each goal, like RN vacancy or readmission rate, next to the strategic initiatives meant to move them.
Who enters the progress updates?
The people doing the work. Each owner gets a reminder by email and in VisionSync, with Microsoft Teams and Slack reminders in beta, and posts a quick update with a short note on why.
How do leaders see where things stand?
Live dashboards and heatmaps by hospital, service line, goal or owner. You can see what’s on track and what’s behind, then click straight into the work and the owner’s latest note.
What does a board report look like?
It comes straight out of the plan with current information, showing progress by pillar and the items that need attention. Board members usually read it as a PDF without needing a login.
Can we just ask where the plan stands? BETA
PulseIQ, our planning AI, is in beta. Ask a question about your plan and get an answer from your own data. It’s optional and off unless you turn it on.
Quality, nursing and community health
Yes. Tag any initiative with a board quality priority, a Joint Commission focus area, a Magnet or Pathway standard, or a need from your community health needs assessment, then pull everything with that tag into one view or report.
The tags group the work so it’s easy to find and report on. Your quality data, accreditation documents and filings stay where they are today, and your teams still write them.
Board quality priorities
Joint Commission focus areas
Magnet and Pathway
CHNA implementation strategy
Community benefit
Use cases
System strategic plan
The plan of record, with every pillar, goal and initiative in one place and one owner on each. Explore our strategic initiative software
Hospital and department plans
Each hospital and department runs its own plan and connects it to the system goals it supports.
Nursing strategic plan
Nursing goals, residency and retention work, reviewed by your nursing council on its own schedule.
Quality and patient safety
The improvement projects behind your quality goals, ready for the quality committee every month.
Community health
Your community health needs assessment implementation strategy, with the work behind each need tracked in one place.
Growth and integration
Service line growth and the workstreams for a newly acquired hospital, alongside the system plan.
Who uses it
CEO and COO
One live view of the whole plan and a board report that doesn’t take a week to build.
Strategy and transformation office
Reminders go out on their own, so the team works on the plan instead of chasing updates.
Chief nursing officer
A nursing plan that stands on its own and still connects to the hospital’s goals.
Quality leaders
Improvement work tied to the board’s quality priorities, ready for every committee meeting.
Service line and department leaders
Their own initiatives in one place, with a clear line to the goal each one supports.
Board and committee members
Current progress in the board packet, without needing a login.
Where it comes from
VisionSync grew out of a collaboration between the University of Nebraska Medical Center and the UNeTech Institute, and today 963 people across 9 organizations track more than 4,300 initiatives in it.
Getting started
Most hospitals are up and running within 90 days. We start with a free sandbox and set up your plan with your team, and contracts usually get signed along the way, so nothing waits on paperwork.
When you go live, everything you set up comes with you. Your leaders add their initiatives, and we help with training and open office hours until the first updates are in. For most hospitals, IT only needs to help with single sign-on.
What it costs to run
A critical access hospital gets exactly the same platform as a twelve-hospital system, including PulseIQ.
Included
Implementation, training, ongoing support, every feature, as many plans as you need, and CSV and PDF export. API data access is an optional add-on.
Priced by seat tier
You pay for a range of seats rather than each person, plus a one-time implementation fee.
Single sign-on setup
A separate one-time fee, since connecting it is setup work on our side. Email and password sign-in is always included.
Nonprofit discounts may apply.
Security and privacy
SSO through whatever identity provider you already run, role-based permissions, and control over who can see which plans. The accessibility work is aligned to WCAG 2.2 Level AA, and we can send a VPAT and security documentation over for your review.
WCAG 2.2 AA · Section 508 · SSO and SAML · Role-based access · Domain whitelisting · Plan visibility controls · Encrypted in transit
What lives in VisionSync
Your strategic plan, its owners and their progress updates. Patient records stay in your EHR.
PulseIQ, in beta
Private by design
Your data stays yours. Your plans and AI conversations are never used to train underlying AI models.
Isolated to your organization. Every request is restricted to your organization’s data, with tenant-level isolation.
Tied to the person asking. Conversations stay private to the person who started them.
FAQ
What is strategic planning software for hospitals?
It’s software that keeps a hospital’s strategic plan moving after the board approves it, which is often called strategy execution. VisionSync holds your plan in your own words, gives every strategic initiative an owner, reminds owners to post a quick update on a regular schedule, and builds board reports from those updates.
How do you track progress on a hospital strategic plan?
Give each strategic initiative an owner and a target for each review period, often a KPI such as RN vacancy or patient falls, then ask for a short update on a regular schedule. In VisionSync, owners get a reminder, post their progress with a short note on why, and that progress adds up to the goals above, so leaders see the current status without chasing anyone.
Our guide to strategic initiative software walks through what each initiative should include.
Can each hospital and department have its own plan?
Yes, and there’s no limit or extra fee for additional plans. Each hospital and department keeps its own plan in its own words and connects it to the system goals it supports, so healthcare strategic planning for the whole system happens in one place.
How do board members see progress?
Through a report that comes straight out of the plan, showing progress by pillar and the items that need attention. Board members usually read it as a PDF without needing a login, and a board chair can have read-only access.
Can VisionSync help with our CHNA implementation strategy?
Yes. Run your implementation strategy as its own plan or tag the work behind each community health need, so the record of what was done and why is kept in one place for your next assessment.
Can VisionSync connect to our EHR or other systems?
VisionSync has a public API, and custom integrations can be built for a fee. Most hospitals keep clinical, quality and financial data where it already lives and use VisionSync for the plan that data supports.
How does VisionSync handle HIPAA and patient privacy?
VisionSync is built to hold your strategic plan, and patient information stays in your EHR. Our security standards are documented for your review, including SSO through your identity provider, role-based access, data encrypted in transit and accessibility aligned to WCAG 2.2 Level AA.
How long does implementation take?
Most hospitals and health systems are up and running within 90 days. It starts with a free sandbox where we set up your plan with you, contracts usually happen at the same time, and we help with training until your first updates are in.
How much does it cost?
VisionSync is priced by seat tier with a one-time implementation fee, and every customer gets every feature. Nonprofit discounts may apply, and the pricing page explains the process.
Do we have to use the AI?
No. PulseIQ is in beta and off unless you turn it on. When it's on, it works only from your own plan data, and your plans and conversations are never used to train underlying AI models.
Bring your strategic plan and we’ll show you what it looks like with owners, regular updates and a board report built from them. It takes 30 minutes, and if it’s worth a closer look, we’ll set up a free sandbox.
