Choosing a compliance platform in 2026 means choosing in the middle of an earthquake: the market’s biggest brand finished dissolving into a conglomerate, its sister rotation platform went dark on June 30, and displaced programs are shopping mid-summer with fall cohorts bearing down. Yes, we’re a vendor writing a buyer’s guide — so every claim below is a published fact you can verify, and we’ll tell you plainly where a competitor might fit you better.
The field, honestly described
- DISA Healthcare (formerly CastleBranch + Complio). The giant: by its own account, DISA Healthcare supports more than 2,500 colleges and universities and over one million users, across the former CastleBranch (rebranded DISA Healthcare Technology in 2025) and American DataBank’s Complio. Strengths: scale, name recognition, deep integration catalog. Documented trade-offs: published student bundles up to $153.98, a no-refund/no-cancellation order policy in Complio’s FAQ, and school support pages citing waits up to 10 business days. Fits: massive university systems that want one giant vendor and have leverage to negotiate.
- Verified Credentials. Independent, founded 1984, healthcare-focused, and actively winning programs leaving the old CastleBranch — Mercy College of Health Sciences moved its Summer 2026 and later cohorts to it. Published example pricing: $50–$100 per student background check at Arkansas State’s nursing college. Fits: programs prioritizing an established screening firm with student requirement tracking bolted on.
- Viewpoint Screening. Student-paid bundles combining background check, drug screening, a health portal, and eLearning, used by programs including the University of Central Arkansas and the University of North Alabama, with chat-based support. Pricing is set per school at checkout rather than published. Fits: programs that want one mandatory student package and are comfortable with chat-first service.
- Placement and rotation tools (RotationManager, ACEMAPP, Exxat). These are built around scheduling clinical placements; some add a document review service (ACEMAPP Assure, Exxat Approve), and screening comes from partner vendors. If Bridges’ shutdown stranded your scheduling, you may need one of these and a compliance and screening vendor. See ACEMAPP alternatives and Bridges EXP alternatives.
- Student tracking systems (Typhon Group). Case and time logs, evaluations, scheduling and document management for health education programs; background checks, drug screens and immunization monitoring go through a partner. See Typhon alternatives.
- Record trackers bundled with screening (myRecordTracker). Certiphi Screening and Truescreen offer myRecordTracker for immunization and health records, reviewed by their team or the school’s. See myRecordTracker alternatives.
- Drug Free Schools (that’s us). The independent specialist: family-owned since 1995, never acquired. $30/student compliance tracking with unlimited free admin seats; every document reviewed within 24 hours with specific fix-it notes; on-site drug screening (from $25/student, depending on cohort size) and N95 fit-testing events that clear a whole cohort in one visit; $40 Quest-network screens and $35–$70 Checkr background checks (FACIS Level 3 at the top tier) students can order online; portals live in 24–48 hours; no long-term contracts. Trade-off, stated plainly: we are deliberately smaller. If your institution requires a vendor with a thousand employees, that isn’t us — and if it requires a vendor who knows your program by name, it is.
Placement, tracking and screening tools at a glance
Each row below was checked against the vendor’s own website on 14 October 2026.
| Tool | What it is | Document review | Drug screens and background checks | Published price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACEMAPP | Clinical placement, compliance and recruitment platform from Michigan Health Council (source) | ACEMAPP Assure (source) | Integrated vendors (source) | $50 per member, per year membership; Assure separate (source) |
| Bridges EXP | Clinical placement platform; no longer available after June 30, 2026 (source) | — | — | — |
| Typhon Group | Student tracking systems: case and time logs, evaluations, scheduling, document management (source) | Document management module | Through partner DISA Healthcare Technology (source) | Not published (subscription plus one-time per-student pricing) |
| myRecordTracker | Immunization and health record tracking from Certiphi Screening and Truescreen (source) | By the vendor’s team or the school | Offered by Certiphi (source) | Not published |
| Drug Free Schools | Compliance tracking plus the screening itself | Every upload within 24 hours, included | We perform them: on campus, at Quest, through Checkr | $30 per student, one time; screens from $25; checks $35/$70 |
How to run the decision in one week
Day 1: write your requirement list and student headcount. Day 2: request all-in per-student pricing, in writing, from two or three vendors above — including every fee a student will ever see. Day 3: ask each: who reviews documents, what is the turnaround commitment, can you screen on our campus, what are the contract exit terms? Day 4: demo the two best answers. Day 5: pick the one whose numbers and humans you actually believe. We’ll happily be one of your quotes — and we’ll still take your call if we’re not the pick.
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Frequently asked questions
What changed in the clinical compliance market in 2026?
Consolidation and churn: CastleBranch completed its rebrand to DISA Healthcare Technology under DISA ownership (which also owns Complio's maker, American DataBank), and the Bridges EXP clinical experience platform shut down entirely on June 30, 2026, forcing programs to migrate.
Who are the main vendors for health science program compliance in 2026?
DISA Healthcare (the former CastleBranch plus Complio), Verified Credentials, Viewpoint Screening, and independent specialists like Drug Free Schools. Rotation-scheduling tools such as RotationManager, ACEMAPP, and Exxat solve an adjacent problem and often pair with a compliance vendor.
What should a program compare first?
All-in student cost, who reviews documents and how fast, whether the vendor can screen on campus, contract terms and admin seat pricing, and what migration looks like if you ever leave.
Why include Drug Free Schools in a guide Drug Free Schools wrote?
Because we'll say the quiet part: we are the small, independent option. Programs that want a Fortune-500-scale vendor should pick one; programs that want humans, speed, and lower student costs should call us. This page gives you the published numbers to decide.
CastleBranch, DISA, DISA Healthcare, Complio, American DataBank, Bridges, Verified Credentials, Viewpoint Screening, Med+Proctor, Magnus Health, Quest Diagnostics, LabCorp, Checkr, ACEMAPP, Michigan Health Council, Bridges EXP, Typhon Group, myRecordTracker, Certiphi, Truescreen, RotationManager and Exxat are trademarks of their respective owners. Drug Free Schools is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by these companies. The comparison table was checked on each vendor’s own website on 14 October 2026; other third-party prices, policies, and events referenced on this page come from public announcements and published school and vendor materials as of July 2026 and may have changed; verify current terms with the vendor. Nothing on this page is legal or medical advice.