HealthStream starts with credentialing. Untether starts with the schedule.
HealthStream is a credentialing and learning company that acquired its way into scheduling. Untether is AI-first workforce management built scheduling-first for clinical teams.
HealthStream is a healthcare workforce-development company — best known for learning, training, and credentialing (CredentialStream). It entered scheduling through acquisitions: NurseGrid and ShiftWizard, with ANSOS as a legacy enterprise product.
Credentialing-first, scheduling-second
ShiftWizard aligns staffing to patient demand with manager-driven scheduling and acuity views. It's healthcare-specific, but scheduling is one part of a learning-and-credentialing portfolio rather than the core engine.
AI-first, not acuity-rules
Untether forecasts demand by region, skill, and intake with ML and auto-builds schedules across the clinical workforce — then executes the operational work instead of leaving it to managers.
Built for flexible clinical teams
Untether natively handles FTE, part-time, contractor, and agency staff across licenses and regions, with providers self-serving in real time.
Pick the workforce management software that fits how your care team works.
HealthStream
HealthStream may fit if learning and credentialing are your anchor.
- Your core need is workforce development, training, and credentialing (CredentialStream).
- You want manager-driven nurse scheduling (ShiftWizard, NurseGrid) inside that ecosystem.
- You're standardizing learning, compliance, and scheduling with one healthcare vendor.
Untether
Untether fits if scheduling and operations are the hard part.
- You need AI to auto-build and operate schedules, not manager-driven shift tools.
- You want demand forecasting and real-time coverage, not acuity views alone.
- You want the system to execute time off, on-call, and reporting end to end.
FAQ
HealthStream fits if learning and credentialing are your anchor and you want nurse scheduling inside that ecosystem; Untether fits when AI-first scheduling and operations are the priority.
Untether is the AI-first alternative to HealthStream's ShiftWizard — scheduling-first for the full clinical workforce, with demand forecasting and execution.
No — we import your nurse schedules and rules from ShiftWizard or NurseGrid and your HRIS, so you keep your structure.
We map your setup, run Untether in parallel to validate coverage, then cut over region by region with on-site support.
Untether uses ML to forecast demand by region, skill, and intake and auto-builds schedules across the workforce, beyond acuity-based, manager-driven scheduling.
AI auto-scheduling, demand forecasting, real-time coverage, and end-to-end execution of time off, on-call, and reporting — beyond manager-driven shift tools.
How to migrate from HealthStream in 3 steps
- 1
Map your stack.
We import your nurse schedules and rules from ShiftWizard or NurseGrid and your HRIS — no blank-slate setup.
- 2
Run in parallel.
Untether builds and operates schedules alongside HealthStream so your team validates coverage before cutover.
- 3
Cut over with white-glove support.
We embed with your ops team, switch live region by region, and connect payroll — typically over a few weeks.