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LMS for healthcare education
An LMS clinicians will use and hospital IT will approve
You get CE records an accreditor can audit, single sign-on into every health system you sell to, and one fee however many nurses enrol. Custom-built around your programmes, yours to own, and we run it as long as you need.
TEAMS WE BUILD FOR
● A WORD FROM OUR FOUNDER
In 12 years building Learning Management Systems, I've talked to thousands of learning businesses, a fair few of them in medical education. I can usually tell what's holding one back pretty quickly, and it's almost always one of three things.
No control
You're on someone else's foundation, or on code a developer left behind. Then a health system's security questionnaire lands: where does learner data live, who can see it, do you support our single sign-on. If the platform can't answer those, you can't either, and the deal waits while you chase whoever built it.
Poor experience
Good content doesn't help if a nurse can't get through a module on her phone between patients. It gets worse when the course, the exam and the CE certificate sit in three tools, each with its own login. People stop logging in, and renewals follow.
Per-seat pricing
On a per-seat LMS, winning a health system means a bigger bill: 4,000 nurses enrol and your invoice goes up before your revenue does. Then there's the manual work, CE records exported by hand, certificates fixed one at a time, and things like that.
They all come back to the same thing: you've outgrown the model you're on. I think it's fixable, and the fix is owning your LMS outright, built around how your programmes and your hospital customers actually work. Book a call and talk it through with me.
Kaine Shutler
Founder, Plume
● A WORD FROM OUR FOUNDER
In 12 years building Learning Management Systems, I've talked to thousands of learning businesses, a fair few of them in medical education. I can usually tell what's holding one back pretty quickly, and it's almost always one of three things.
No control
You're on someone else's foundation, or on code a developer left behind. Then a health system's security questionnaire lands: where does learner data live, who can see it, do you support our single sign-on. If the platform can't answer those, you can't either, and the deal waits while you chase whoever built it.
Poor experience
Good content doesn't help if a nurse can't get through a module on her phone between patients. It gets worse when the course, the exam and the CE certificate sit in three tools, each with its own login. People stop logging in, and renewals follow.
Per-seat pricing
On a per-seat LMS, winning a health system means a bigger bill: 4,000 nurses enrol and your invoice goes up before your revenue does. Then there's the manual work, CE records exported by hand, certificates fixed one at a time, and things like that.
They all come back to the same thing: you've outgrown the model you're on. I think it's fixable, and the fix is owning your LMS outright, built around how your programmes and your hospital customers actually work. Book a call and talk it through with me.
Kaine Shutler
Founder, Plume
● A WORD FROM OUR FOUNDER
In 12 years building Learning Management Systems, I've talked to thousands of learning businesses, a fair few of them in medical education. I can usually tell what's holding one back pretty quickly, and it's almost always one of three things.
No control
You're on someone else's foundation, or on code a developer left behind. Then a health system's security questionnaire lands: where does learner data live, who can see it, do you support our single sign-on. If the platform can't answer those, you can't either, and the deal waits while you chase whoever built it.
Poor experience
Good content doesn't help if a nurse can't get through a module on her phone between patients. It gets worse when the course, the exam and the CE certificate sit in three tools, each with its own login. People stop logging in, and renewals follow.
Per-seat pricing
On a per-seat LMS, winning a health system means a bigger bill: 4,000 nurses enrol and your invoice goes up before your revenue does. Then there's the manual work, CE records exported by hand, certificates fixed one at a time, and things like that.
They all come back to the same thing: you've outgrown the model you're on. I think it's fixable, and the fix is owning your LMS outright, built around how your programmes and your hospital customers actually work. Book a call and talk it through with me.
Kaine Shutler
Founder, Plume
What we build
Everything a continuing education LMS needs, built around your programmes
We start from foundations we've already built and tested, then custom-build the CE tracking, reporting and integrations your programmes and your hospital customers need
What we build
Everything a continuing education LMS needs, built around your programmes
We start from foundations we've already built and tested, then custom-build the CE tracking, reporting and integrations your programmes and your hospital customers need
What we build
Everything a continuing education LMS needs, built around your programmes
We start from foundations we've already built and tested, then custom-build the CE tracking, reporting and integrations your programmes and your hospital customers need
HOW IT WORKS
From scope to a healthcare LMS you own, in 2-12 weeks
01
Strategy Blueprint
Before any code, we turn your scope into a costed plan: learner experience, technical build, and a data map of what the platform holds and where it flows. Yours to keep, whoever builds it.
01
02
Designed for how clinicians learn
Our founder-led design team turns the plan into a clickable prototype, so you can put it in front of a nurse educator before anything gets built
02
03
Build in sprints
We build on proven components and custom-engineer the CE logic, reporting and integrations, in short sprints you can steer, so you watch it take shape instead of waiting for a reveal
03
04
Zero-disruption migration
We move your learners, completions and credit history across, checked against the old system, so nobody loses a record
04
05
Launch at your pace
Full launch or phased, one health system at a time if you prefer. Backed by the team behind 200+ launches.
05
06
Yours, and we run it
You own it outright. We host it to SOC 2 and ISO 27001 control standards and keep building it for as long as you want.
06
HOW IT WORKS
From scope to a healthcare LMS you own, in 2-12 weeks
01
Strategy Blueprint
Before any code, we turn your scope into a costed plan: learner experience, technical build, and a data map of what the platform holds and where it flows. Yours to keep, whoever builds it.
01
02
Designed for how clinicians learn
Our founder-led design team turns the plan into a clickable prototype, so you can put it in front of a nurse educator before anything gets built
02
03
Build in sprints
We build on proven components and custom-engineer the CE logic, reporting and integrations, in short sprints you can steer, so you watch it take shape instead of waiting for a reveal
03
04
Zero-disruption migration
We move your learners, completions and credit history across, checked against the old system, so nobody loses a record
04
05
Launch at your pace
Full launch or phased, one health system at a time if you prefer. Backed by the team behind 200+ launches.
05
06
Yours, and we run it
You own it outright. We host it to SOC 2 and ISO 27001 control standards and keep building it for as long as you want.
06
HOW IT WORKS
From scope to a healthcare LMS you own, in 2-12 weeks
01
Strategy Blueprint
Before any code, we turn your scope into a costed plan: learner experience, technical build, and a data map of what the platform holds and where it flows. Yours to keep, whoever builds it.
01
02
Designed for how clinicians learn
Our founder-led design team turns the plan into a clickable prototype, so you can put it in front of a nurse educator before anything gets built
02
03
Build in sprints
We build on proven components and custom-engineer the CE logic, reporting and integrations, in short sprints you can steer, so you watch it take shape instead of waiting for a reveal
03
04
Zero-disruption migration
We move your learners, completions and credit history across, checked against the old system, so nobody loses a record
04
05
Launch at your pace
Full launch or phased, one health system at a time if you prefer. Backed by the team behind 200+ launches.
05
06
Yours, and we run it
You own it outright. We host it to SOC 2 and ISO 27001 control standards and keep building it for as long as you want.
06
Engineered for scrutiny, built to last
An LMS you own is only worth owning if it holds up when hospital IT starts asking. So we build for the audit, as well as launch day.
Proven foundations
We build on thousands of components already hardened across real projects: course flows, question banks, certificates, dashboards, payments. Your budget goes on the CE logic and integrations unique to you, and the rest is stable from day one.
75%
built before we start
Proven foundations
We build on thousands of components already hardened across real projects: course flows, question banks, certificates, dashboards, payments. Your budget goes on the CE logic and integrations unique to you, and the rest is stable from day one.
75%
built before we start
Tested to hold up
Specialist QA engineers who know how learning platforms fail, plus automated alerts, regression testing and load testing across devices. We find the problems in a controlled environment, before a cohort of nurses on a deadline does.
100k
users load-tested
Tested to hold up
Specialist QA engineers who know how learning platforms fail, plus automated alerts, regression testing and load testing across devices. We find the problems in a controlled environment, before a cohort of nurses on a deadline does.
100k
users load-tested
Built to scale, by senior engineers
Senior developers design and build your platform to scale from day one, the same team behind platforms for ScribeAmerica and Google, including one designed for a million teachers across a dozen countries.
1M+
learners, in platforms we’ve built
Built to scale, by senior engineers
Senior developers design and build your platform to scale from day one, the same team behind platforms for ScribeAmerica and Google, including one designed for a million teachers across a dozen countries.
1M+
learners, in platforms we’ve built
Designed so clinicians finish
The learner experience is what a health system judges you on at renewal. We design for clinicians with ten minutes between patients, because the platform only pays off when they finish.
3x
increase in completions
Designed so clinicians finish
The learner experience is what a health system judges you on at renewal. We design for clinicians with ten minutes between patients, because the platform only pays off when they finish.
3x
increase in completions
One platform from enrolment to certificate
Most CE providers run on a patchwork of tools and a spreadsheet of credits. We build it as one.
Grow revenue per health system: one connected path from course catalogue to checkout to certificate, so more clinicians buy the next module and departments renew
Keep clinicians from slipping away: one login and one brand from first module to final certificate, so you stop losing them in the gaps between tools
Bend it around your stack: connects to your CRM, and to the HR or learning systems each hospital runs; if it needs to plug in, we build it
One source of truth: every completion, credit and certificate in one place, so when an accreditor asks, the answer is one export
One platform from enrolment to certificate
Most CE providers run on a patchwork of tools and a spreadsheet of credits. We build it as one.
Grow revenue per health system: one connected path from course catalogue to checkout to certificate, so more clinicians buy the next module and departments renew
Keep clinicians from slipping away: one login and one brand from first module to final certificate, so you stop losing them in the gaps between tools
Bend it around your stack: connects to your CRM, and to the HR or learning systems each hospital runs; if it needs to plug in, we build it
One source of truth: every completion, credit and certificate in one place, so when an accreditor asks, the answer is one export
One platform from enrolment to certificate
Most CE providers run on a patchwork of tools and a spreadsheet of credits. We build it as one.
Grow revenue per health system: one connected path from course catalogue to checkout to certificate, so more clinicians buy the next module and departments renew
Keep clinicians from slipping away: one login and one brand from first module to final certificate, so you stop losing them in the gaps between tools
Bend it around your stack: connects to your CRM, and to the HR or learning systems each hospital runs; if it needs to plug in, we build it
One source of truth: every completion, credit and certificate in one place, so when an accreditor asks, the answer is one export
Portfolio
See what we've built for providers like yours
Portfolio
See what we've built for providers like yours
Steve, Trustpilot, October 2026
Just as importantly, the Blueprint work has translated into the build - we're not starting over or re-explaining our needs at every turn.
Christopher Egasti, Trustpilot, October 2025
We are so fortunate to have Plume. They have gone above and beyond to help us deliver science education to our users. They are professional, organized, and delivered above and beyond our expectations.
Steve, Trustpilot, October 2026
Just as importantly, the Blueprint work has translated into the build - we're not starting over or re-explaining our needs at every turn.
Christopher Egasti, Trustpilot, October 2025
We are so fortunate to have Plume. They have gone above and beyond to help us deliver science education to our users. They are professional, organized, and delivered above and beyond our expectations.
Steve, Trustpilot, October 2026
Just as importantly, the Blueprint work has translated into the build - we're not starting over or re-explaining our needs at every turn.
Christopher Egasti, Trustpilot, October 2025
We are so fortunate to have Plume. They have gone above and beyond to help us deliver science education to our users. They are professional, organized, and delivered above and beyond our expectations.
Frequently asked questions
Have more questions? Send us a message or schedule a call with our founder by clicking here
What is a custom LMS for healthcare education, and how is it different from an off-the-shelf LMS?
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A custom LMS for healthcare education is built around how you deliver and account for training: your courses, your accreditors' rules, and the health systems you sell into. Off-the-shelf platforms give you fixed workflows and a per-seat price, and you fit your programme around them. A custom build matches your model: it issues CE credit the way your accreditor defines it, logs in through each hospital's single sign-on, reports in the format an auditor asks for, and connects to the tools you already run. You own the code, so the roadmap is yours and the price doesn't climb with every nurse.
Where does learner data live, and how do you answer hospital IT's HIPAA questions?
Learner data lives where you choose: our managed hosting or your own cloud account. For most CE and board-prep providers that data is clinician PII and credential history rather than patient records, but hospital IT asks the same questions, so the platform is built to answer them. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, access is role-based, every admin action is logged, and each health system's data is isolated from the next. Security is scoped to ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA and PCI DSS, and every Blueprint includes a data map showing what the platform holds and where it flows.
Can clinicians log in with hospital single sign-on?
Yes. Single sign-on is one of the standard security features in every platform we build, so clinicians can log in with their hospital's own credentials through SAML or OpenID Connect. Access then follows employment: when someone leaves the health system, their access ends automatically, which is exactly what hospital IT wants to hear. Each tenant can run its own identity provider, and learners who come to you directly still get a normal login with multi-factor authentication for admin and sensitive access.
How do you track CE credits and keep records an accreditor can audit?
CE credit is awarded by rules you set per accreditor and activity, and every completion, score and certificate is written to an audit trail nobody can edit. When ACCME, a state board or a hospital asks, you export the record in the format they want. Certificates generate automatically to your accreditor's template.
How do you help us with hospital security questionnaires?
We answer the technical sections for you. Every platform ships with the features a questionnaire asks about: audit trail, role-based access, single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, encryption, tenant isolation, retention and deletion, and data export. Platforms we host are built and run to SOC 2 and ISO 27001 control standards, with annual independent penetration testing available. Our Compliance Assurance add-on includes a security pack you can forward, a maintained bank of questionnaire answers, and a questionnaire desk with an agreed turnaround, so procurement gets its answers without pulling your team off the programme.
How much does a custom healthcare LMS cost compared with per-seat pricing?
A custom healthcare LMS costs more up front and less over time. Builds start at $50k, and a multi-tenant platform for health systems is typically $75k-$250k, paid once or spread over three years. Compare that with per-seat pricing at your volumes: when a health system enrols a few thousand nurses, a per-seat platform bills you for every one of them, every year. On a platform you own, that contract is margin. Ongoing costs are hosting and support, and the Blueprint fixes the number before you commit to a build.
Can you migrate our courses and CE records from LearnDash, Moodle or another LMS?
Yes. Migration is part of every build, and we work with providers coming off LearnDash, Moodle and systems built decades ago. We map your courses, enrolments, completions and credit history to the new platform, run the migration against a copy of your data first, and reconcile record counts against the old system before anything goes live. Learners keep their history and pick up where they left off, and your CE records stay intact and exportable.
How long does it take to build an LMS for healthcare education?
Most builds take around three months; a first programme with CE tracking can launch in 2-4 weeks, and a multi-tenant platform for health systems is usually 12 weeks. That includes planning, UX design, build, testing and migration. It takes longer than configuring a SaaS tool because the CE rules, reporting and integrations are built to your model. Many clients keep extending their platform for years after launch, adding exam simulation, new accreditors or new markets as they grow.
Frequently asked questions
Have more questions? Send us a message or schedule a call with our founder by clicking here
What is a custom LMS for healthcare education, and how is it different from an off-the-shelf LMS?
A custom LMS for healthcare education is built around how you deliver and account for training: your courses, your accreditors' rules, and the health systems you sell into. Off-the-shelf platforms give you fixed workflows and a per-seat price, and you fit your programme around them. A custom build matches your model: it issues CE credit the way your accreditor defines it, logs in through each hospital's single sign-on, reports in the format an auditor asks for, and connects to the tools you already run. You own the code, so the roadmap is yours and the price doesn't climb with every nurse.
Where does learner data live, and how do you answer hospital IT's HIPAA questions?
Learner data lives where you choose: our managed hosting or your own cloud account. For most CE and board-prep providers that data is clinician PII and credential history rather than patient records, but hospital IT asks the same questions, so the platform is built to answer them. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, access is role-based, every admin action is logged, and each health system's data is isolated from the next. Security is scoped to ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA and PCI DSS, and every Blueprint includes a data map showing what the platform holds and where it flows.
Can clinicians log in with hospital single sign-on?
Yes. Single sign-on is one of the standard security features in every platform we build, so clinicians can log in with their hospital's own credentials through SAML or OpenID Connect. Access then follows employment: when someone leaves the health system, their access ends automatically, which is exactly what hospital IT wants to hear. Each tenant can run its own identity provider, and learners who come to you directly still get a normal login with multi-factor authentication for admin and sensitive access.
How do you track CE credits and keep records an accreditor can audit?
CE credit is awarded by rules you set per accreditor and activity, and every completion, score and certificate is written to an audit trail nobody can edit. When ACCME, a state board or a hospital asks, you export the record in the format they want. Certificates generate automatically to your accreditor's template.
How do you help us with hospital security questionnaires?
We answer the technical sections for you. Every platform ships with the features a questionnaire asks about: audit trail, role-based access, single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, encryption, tenant isolation, retention and deletion, and data export. Platforms we host are built and run to SOC 2 and ISO 27001 control standards, with annual independent penetration testing available. Our Compliance Assurance add-on includes a security pack you can forward, a maintained bank of questionnaire answers, and a questionnaire desk with an agreed turnaround, so procurement gets its answers without pulling your team off the programme.
How much does a custom healthcare LMS cost compared with per-seat pricing?
A custom healthcare LMS costs more up front and less over time. Builds start at $50k, and a multi-tenant platform for health systems is typically $75k-$250k, paid once or spread over three years. Compare that with per-seat pricing at your volumes: when a health system enrols a few thousand nurses, a per-seat platform bills you for every one of them, every year. On a platform you own, that contract is margin. Ongoing costs are hosting and support, and the Blueprint fixes the number before you commit to a build.
Can you migrate our courses and CE records from LearnDash, Moodle or another LMS?
Yes. Migration is part of every build, and we work with providers coming off LearnDash, Moodle and systems built decades ago. We map your courses, enrolments, completions and credit history to the new platform, run the migration against a copy of your data first, and reconcile record counts against the old system before anything goes live. Learners keep their history and pick up where they left off, and your CE records stay intact and exportable.
How long does it take to build an LMS for healthcare education?
Most builds take around three months; a first programme with CE tracking can launch in 2-4 weeks, and a multi-tenant platform for health systems is usually 12 weeks. That includes planning, UX design, build, testing and migration. It takes longer than configuring a SaaS tool because the CE rules, reporting and integrations are built to your model. Many clients keep extending their platform for years after launch, adding exam simulation, new accreditors or new markets as they grow.
Frequently asked questions
Have more questions? Send us a message or schedule a call with our founder by clicking here
What is a custom LMS for healthcare education, and how is it different from an off-the-shelf LMS?
A custom LMS for healthcare education is built around how you deliver and account for training: your courses, your accreditors' rules, and the health systems you sell into. Off-the-shelf platforms give you fixed workflows and a per-seat price, and you fit your programme around them. A custom build matches your model: it issues CE credit the way your accreditor defines it, logs in through each hospital's single sign-on, reports in the format an auditor asks for, and connects to the tools you already run. You own the code, so the roadmap is yours and the price doesn't climb with every nurse.
Where does learner data live, and how do you answer hospital IT's HIPAA questions?
Learner data lives where you choose: our managed hosting or your own cloud account. For most CE and board-prep providers that data is clinician PII and credential history rather than patient records, but hospital IT asks the same questions, so the platform is built to answer them. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, access is role-based, every admin action is logged, and each health system's data is isolated from the next. Security is scoped to ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA and PCI DSS, and every Blueprint includes a data map showing what the platform holds and where it flows.
Can clinicians log in with hospital single sign-on?
Yes. Single sign-on is one of the standard security features in every platform we build, so clinicians can log in with their hospital's own credentials through SAML or OpenID Connect. Access then follows employment: when someone leaves the health system, their access ends automatically, which is exactly what hospital IT wants to hear. Each tenant can run its own identity provider, and learners who come to you directly still get a normal login with multi-factor authentication for admin and sensitive access.
How do you track CE credits and keep records an accreditor can audit?
CE credit is awarded by rules you set per accreditor and activity, and every completion, score and certificate is written to an audit trail nobody can edit. When ACCME, a state board or a hospital asks, you export the record in the format they want. Certificates generate automatically to your accreditor's template.
How do you help us with hospital security questionnaires?
We answer the technical sections for you. Every platform ships with the features a questionnaire asks about: audit trail, role-based access, single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, encryption, tenant isolation, retention and deletion, and data export. Platforms we host are built and run to SOC 2 and ISO 27001 control standards, with annual independent penetration testing available. Our Compliance Assurance add-on includes a security pack you can forward, a maintained bank of questionnaire answers, and a questionnaire desk with an agreed turnaround, so procurement gets its answers without pulling your team off the programme.
How much does a custom healthcare LMS cost compared with per-seat pricing?
A custom healthcare LMS costs more up front and less over time. Builds start at $50k, and a multi-tenant platform for health systems is typically $75k-$250k, paid once or spread over three years. Compare that with per-seat pricing at your volumes: when a health system enrols a few thousand nurses, a per-seat platform bills you for every one of them, every year. On a platform you own, that contract is margin. Ongoing costs are hosting and support, and the Blueprint fixes the number before you commit to a build.
Can you migrate our courses and CE records from LearnDash, Moodle or another LMS?
Yes. Migration is part of every build, and we work with providers coming off LearnDash, Moodle and systems built decades ago. We map your courses, enrolments, completions and credit history to the new platform, run the migration against a copy of your data first, and reconcile record counts against the old system before anything goes live. Learners keep their history and pick up where they left off, and your CE records stay intact and exportable.
How long does it take to build an LMS for healthcare education?
Most builds take around three months; a first programme with CE tracking can launch in 2-4 weeks, and a multi-tenant platform for health systems is usually 12 weeks. That includes planning, UX design, build, testing and migration. It takes longer than configuring a SaaS tool because the CE rules, reporting and integrations are built to your model. Many clients keep extending their platform for years after launch, adding exam simulation, new accreditors or new markets as they grow.
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Let's explore your options
After you submit, our AI assistant will call you for a quick 2-3 minute chat about your project, so we can work out which options fit. You can book a call with our founder now, or after your chat with the assistant.
Let's explore your options
After you submit, our AI assistant will call you for a quick 2-3 minute chat about your project, so we can work out which options fit. You can book a call with our founder now, or after your chat with the assistant.
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About Plume
As the leading custom learning platform provider serving training businesses in the US, UK and Europe, we help businesses design, build and grow pioneering learning tech that unlocks limitless growth potential.
Plan your next learning platform with our founder
About Plume
As the leading custom learning platform provider serving training businesses in the US, UK and Europe, we help businesses design, build and grow pioneering learning tech that unlocks limitless growth potential.
Plan your next learning platform with our founder
About Plume
As the leading custom learning platform provider serving training businesses in the US, UK and Europe, we help businesses design, build and grow pioneering learning tech that unlocks limitless growth potential.