Visier for Healthcare

Workforce intelligence for health systems that can't afford to guess

Labor is your single largest cost, and every staffing decision affects patient care. Visier gives your HR, finance, and clinical leaders a single, trusted view of your workforce so you can act with confidence.

Healthcare workforce insights showing agency dependency and staffing risk

Trusted by leading health systems

Health systems are running on razor-thin margins, with their most important asset walking out the door.

With teams making workforce decisions on disconnected, unreliable data, staffing isn't just a cost problem, it's a patient care problem.

Visier changes that.

50–60%

of total operating expense is labor

$61K

average cost to replace a single registered nurse

16%

national RN turnover rate

1.9M

healthcare job openings projected annually

Visier Workforce Intelligence Platform

One governed source of truth for your entire workforce

Visier connects your HRIS, payroll, scheduling, agency, and clinical data in one single place - so every insight is consistent, accurate, and secure.

Connects your full workforce picture

Permanent staff, agency labor, and contingent workers unified into one data model, so you can finally see what your workforce truly costs.

CFO / COO

Total labor cost in one auditable view, and a direct line into decisions that move your VBP reimbursement.

People Analytics

One governed workforce data model. No more reconciling numbers from disconnected systems.

Built for clinical complexity

Understands shift differentials, certifications, staffing ratio mandates, pay equity requirements, and clinical org structures.

CNO

Line of sight into staffing ratios, certification compliance, and team stability - the decisions that impact your HCAHPS scores.

Workforce Planners

Vacancy forecasts that account for org structure, shift patterns, and certification requirements.

Insights in the hands of decision-makers

Self-serve access and tailored guidance for every leader, not just the analytics team.

CHRO

People strategy connected to clinical and financial outcomes. Every decision defended with data.

Clinical Managers

Self-serve insights and AI-driven guidance tailored to your unit — who's at risk, and what to act on next.

$3M

saved in one year by hiring 2,000+ caregivers ahead of vacancy before gaps opened

120,000 employees

1,000

more nurses retained year-over-year, improving workforce stability

139,000 employees

158%

ROI on a data-driven retention program targeting at-risk cohorts; annualized turnover cut to 10%

9 hospitals

Nurse Retention

Stop guessing which nurses are at risk. Act before they leave.

Visier People is a turnkey solution that includes everything you need to deliver meaningful workforce insights so you can demonstrate ROI on your investment remarkably fast. We help you start strong—not from scratch.

  • Understand what's driving turnover

  • Identify at-risk nurses by unit, manager, tenure band, and shift type, before they give notice – no annual survey lag

  • Tailor retention programs to the individual level with manager guidance triggered by live flight risk signals

  • Correlate HR investments with outcomes across cohorts

Dashboard showing a flagged at-risk nurse with driving factors and recommended retention actions
Labor cost alert dashboard showing agency dependency, agency FTEs, agency cost, and contributing drivers

Agency Cost & Labor Expense

Break the burnout cycle before it becomes a $61,000 exit.

When nurses burn out, they leave. When they leave, you backfill with agency labor. When unit staffing thins, remaining staff carry more overtime, and burn out faster. This often leads to worse patient safety outcomes and lower HCAHPS scores.

Visier shows you exactly where the cycle starts, what it costs, and which interventions actually break it.

  • See your true total labor cost: permanent, agency, and overtime unified in one view

  • Identify units where overtime and agency dependency are early warning signals of attrition

  • Track whether your staffing interventions are reducing the cycle, or just deferring it

  • Correlate HR investments with outcomes across cohorts

Workforce Planning

Hire ahead of vacancy, before the gap becomes a crisis.

By the time a vacancy hits your staffing plan, you're already behind. Visier's predictive models give workforce planning teams the lead time to hire proactively, accounting for seasonal demand, historical attrition patterns, and role-specific flight risk across every unit.

  • Forecast vacancies months before positions open

  • Factor in seasonal surges, contract endings, and manager-level attrition risk

  • Tailor retention programs to the individual level with manager guidance triggered by live flight risk signals

  • Build hiring plans against projected vacancy, not just current headcount

Video: how predictive hiring helps health systems stay ahead of vacancies
Mark Smith, VP of Workforce Strategy & Analytics

"The biggest impact on business outcomes is how we forecast vacancies. We've hired over 2,000 caregivers in advance of the vacancy, which has actually contributed to over $3 million in savings."

Mark Smith, VP of Workforce Strategy & Analytics

Video: how Providence scaled workforce intelligence across a 51-hospital system
Gary Russo, Executive Director of Workforce Intelligence

"We brought Visier in to wrap our arms around our own complexity and reduce the number of tools and stories being told. We wanted to make people insights more digestible for people who have to make the change, and Visier has been that for us."

Gary Russo, Executive Director of Workforce Intelligence

Implementation at Scale

What it looks like when a 120,000-employee health system gets it right.

Providence built a workforce intelligence function that serves thousands of business users, not just analysts. Getting there meant choosing a platform that could wrap around the complexity of a 51-hospital system without requiring a data science degree to use.

  • Enterprise data governance built in from day one, not bolted on later

  • Normalize workforce data across acquired facilities - scales from a regional medical center to an IDN; M&A friendly

  • One platform your leaders will actually adopt, because it's built to be used, not just queried

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What would this look like for your health system?

We'll show you what it looks like when your retention, planning, labor cost, and clinical data finally work together.

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