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A perioperative medication safety platform that standardizes preparation, documentation, and waste—without slowing the OR. In the operating room, medication preparation and labeling have historically relied on manual steps that vary by person and setting—each introducing risk. Variation at preparation can lead to vial and ampoule swaps, or handwritten/illegible syringe labels; at administration, it can drive syringe swaps—three well-recognized medication errors hospitals work hard to prevent. Meanwhile, documentation by the anesthesia provider is often completed under time pressure or after the fact, and controlled-substance waste and witnessing typically occur later, creating blind spots in reconciliation and oversight. Safety hinges on in-workflow verification and standardization—across preparation, administration, and waste. Verify a medication’s identity and concentration at preparation, carry that identity forward with a standardized, barcode label at administration, and capture/reconcile waste at the point of care. Without these embedded checks, variability persists case-to-case and room-to-room, and preventable errors and incomplete or delayed documentation follow. The result is a fragmented landscape with wide variability in medication use. Practices can differ between hospitals—and even between operating rooms in the same facility—making consistent safety enforcement difficult. Despite efforts to strengthen protocols, perioperative medication management can function like an open loop, leaving persistent error patterns that technology must address inside the workflow. Codonics saw these risks and set out to change the game. What began as a company known for its precision labeling technology has now evolved into a global medication safety platform that spans the entire perioperative process from drug preparation and administration to waste and reconciliation. Today, Codonics’ innovative solutions close the safety loop by creating a fully connected ecosystem, ensuring traceability at every step and transforming the OR into a safer, more efficient environment.
Virtual Nursing
Virtual care that goes beyond technology empowers nurses, enhances patient safety, and improves care quality. Hospitals are struggling with chronic nurse shortages, high turnover rates, and razor-thin operating margins. These pressures demand solutions that deliver immediate ROI while improving care quality. Through a unified platform that combines virtual patient observation and virtual nursing in a single integrated system, Collette Health embeds clinical expertise directly into hospital workflows, ensuring smooth integration into daily practices and allowing nurses to deliver safer, higher-quality care. At Collette Health, everyone is driven by personal experiences and committed to enhancing care delivery. Their dedication is evident through hands-on involvement with hospital staff. Recognizing that education and change management are often the biggest barriers to virtual care success, the team provides comprehensive training, refines workflows, and ensures every virtual interaction boosts safety and care quality. “We are 100 percent a mission-driven organization. Everybody on our team is very passionate about what we’re doing,” says Holly Miller, CEO. For Miller, the commitment to improving care stems from deeply personal experiences. Caring for her veteran father and witnessing her mother’s lack of access to specialists shaped her approach to virtual nursing. It inspired her to empower nurses to practice at the top of their license, improve patient safety and deliver care wherever needed. Human-Centered AI and Technical Superiority Unlike vendors who lead with technology for technology’s sake, Collette Health’s AI serves a clear purpose: enhancing human capabilities rather than replacing them. The platform’s human-centered AI philosophy recognizes that the best outcomes happen when technology amplifies clinical expertise and strengthens patient-caregiver connections. This approach is evident in features like Follow Patient, which uses computer vision to automatically keep patients in view—eliminating the need for observers to manually adjust cameras so they can focus on patient interaction instead of equipment. Similarly, Acuity Scoring analyzes patient data to identify which patients require more attention, helping supervisors balance workloads so observers can concentrate on the patients who need them most. These AI capabilities don’t replace clinical judgment; they support it by handling the technical burden and enabling more meaningful human engagement. The technical architecture delivers measurable advantages beyond the AI itself. Collette Health’s virtual care ecosystem uses 20x less network bandwidth than competing solutions, enabling hospitals to deploy without expensive infrastructure upgrades—critical when operating on tight budgets. The cloud-based platform enhances security and patient privacy through local data processing while ensuring seamless integration with existing EHR systems and hospital workflows.
Dental Benefits Administration Solution of the Year 2025
Dental and vision benefits professionals sit at the crossroads of cost pressures, regulatory complexities and growing expectations for a better patient experience. Rising premiums, fragmented processes and legacy systems have long slowed progress for payers and providers alike. For more than 30 years, SKYGEN has been tackling these challenges head-on, delivering technology and services that streamline and simplify benefits management while advancing efficiency, compliance and equity across the healthcare ecosystem. While known for creating software and services that modernize operations, SKYGEN’s real value lies in how it helps clients think and operate differently, serving in a trusted advisory role and industry innovator. A True Partner in the Dental and Vision Benefits Space SKYGEN positions itself not as a vendor, but as a partner for growth. Its leadership treats customer-centricity not as a slogan, but as a daily operational discipline embedded across the organization. Everyone within the organization is aligned to ensure clients achieve their strategic goals. That culture is reinforced through initiatives like the Voice of the Customer program, which helps leadership listen closely to client feedback and refine roadmaps accordingly. “Our focus isn’t just on delivering solutions. It’s on building lasting partnerships that help our clients realize their strategic vision,” says Steve Berryman, CEO. That commitment takes shape in a service model where clients view SKYGEN’s teams as an extension of their own. Through consulting expertise, technology design, and implementation support, the company consistently enables stakeholders to work smarter, stay compliant and prepare confidently for the future. Thirty Years of Continuous Innovation SKYGEN’s client focus reflects the company’s founding mission: to transform dental and vision benefits administration through modern technology. Three decades later, that mission continues to guide every innovation. A key differentiator is its closed feedback loop: SKYGEN uses its own software internally, then reinvests those insights to continually enhance its products. The outcome is one of the most advanced benefits administration platforms available for dental and vision payers today. It has evolved steadily, guided by real-world insights and market dynamics shaped through SKYGEN’s own operational experience.
CXO INSIGHTS
Navigating through the Rapidly Changing Field of Infection Prevention
Cynthia Mercado-Reyes, Manager of Infection Control Preventative Medicine, CarePoint Health System
How can Medicare Advantage better serve seniors?
Dave Olson, Senior VP, Medicare Advantage & Network, DentaQuest
Improving Patient Safety and Care with Implementing New Programs
Melissa Morgan, AVP, Quality, Safety, and Regulatory, Orlando Health
Digitizing Healthcare for Efficient Operations
Dr. Charlotte Grayson, Senior Medical Director of Clinical Research, Privia Health
Titus Regional Medical Center's Journey on Implementing CT Dose Tracking and the Effects of Newer Technology
Bill Saling, Director of Imaging Services, Titus Regional Medical Center
Sterile Processing Professional: 30 Years of Changes
Jackie Mallatt, Sterile Processing Assistant Director, Freeman Health System
Strengthening Nursing Teams through Trust and Presence
Valerie Seccia, Director of Nursing Services, Temple Health
IN FOCUS
Optimizing Patient Outcomes: Evolving Medication Management Technologies
Medication safety technology enhances accuracy, efficiency, and patient safety through automation, analytics, and integrated digital systems across healthcare settings.
Virtual Nursing: A Catalyst for Innovation and Improvement in Healthcare
Virtual nursing solutions evolve with innovation, addressing system challenges while unlocking new opportunities in care delivery, workforce support, and stakeholder engagement.
EDITORIAL
Human Precision: The Future of Safer Care
Across the healthcare landscape, a new generation of technology is transforming how safety, efficiency, and precision come together in patient care. From operating rooms to bedside workflows, digital systems are no longer just support tools, they are becoming the backbone of connected ecosystems that empower clinicians, reduce errors, and enhance outcomes. The goal is clear: create smarter, safer environments where technology complements human judgment rather than competes with it.
This edition of Healthcare Tech Outlook highlights Codonics, a global leader in perioperative medication safety, and its role in building a connected ecosystem for safer surgery. By standardizing medication preparation, labeling, and waste without slowing the operating room, Codonics is redefining the meaning of precision in healthcare. Its technology represents the future of surgical safety, where process reliability and clinician trust move hand in hand.
Also featured in this issue are leaders driving transformation across other critical areas of care. Laurel Cipriani, Vice President of Clinical Applications at Premise Health, shares how thoughtful technology integration and inclusive design can expand access and ensure seamless user adoption. Valerie Seccia, Director of Nursing Services at Temple Health, highlights the importance of presence, trust, and emotional intelligence in building resilient nursing teams. Jackie Mallatt, Sterile Processing Assistant Director at Freeman Health System, reflects on how three decades of progress in sterilization practices and certification have elevated her field into a cornerstone of patient safety. Together, their perspectives illustrate that innovation in healthcare succeeds only when it’s paired with empathy, leadership, and continuous learning.
As hospitals embrace new systems and smarter workflows, one thing remains unchanged—the people behind them. Technology may drive progress, but human precision will always define healthcare’s future.
