Sonitor Newsletter – Quarterly Update – Fall 2026
Understanding what is happening across a healthcare organization takes more than a record of completed tasks. Teams need to know where equipment is available, how patients are moving through care, and where help is needed.
In this edition, we share our new white paper on the operational data behind AI, practical clinical insights from Teresa Brasac, and a closer look at hot news in location intelligence for healthcare.
Before AI Can Optimize Healthcare, It Needs Better Operational Data
AI depends on the quality of the information behind it. Yet much of what happens during care delivery remains difficult to capture: equipment waiting to be used, delays between workflow steps, or the time spent searching for an available asset.
Our new white paper explores how location intelligence can create more accurate, contextual operational data to support automation, analytics, and AI across healthcare.
Through examples in asset management, operating room workflows, and staff safety, it examines how a clearer picture of daily activity can help organizations make better decisions about their resources and processes.
For leaders evaluating their next investment in AI or workflow automation, the paper offers a practical starting point: understanding the data those tools will need.
Getting Ahead of the Call Light
Teresa Brasac in American Nurse Journal
A purposeful check-in can address a patient’s needs before they have to ask for help.
Writing in American Nurse Journal, Teresa Brasac, PhD, MSN, MBA, APRN, Sonitor’s Chief Clinical and Informatics Officer, examines the evidence behind purposeful staff rounding and its role in improving patient experience and reducing call-light use.
She also addresses the practical challenge of sustaining rounding during a busy shift. Her article includes a bedside checklist, ways to adapt rounding to different patient populations, and guidance for nurse leaders supporting their teams.
It’s a useful read for anyone working to make proactive patient care a consistent part of daily practice.
Welcoming Ben Ballester and Mike Ruffino
Supporting healthcare organizations in the UK and US
Ben Ballester, UK Country Manager
Ben leads Sonitor’s UK operation, supporting the growth of our inventory management, point-of-care, and real-time location business across the NHS.
He brings more than a decade of healthcare technology experience, including work in GS1 standards, Scan4Safety programmes, and inventory deployments. Working with trusts, ICBs, and framework partners, Ben focuses on bringing RTLS, RFID, and inventory together in a single system to support practical improvements in healthcare operations.
Mike Ruffino, VP of Enterprise Accounts
Mike brings experience across medical device capital sales, enterprise software, and digital health. His previous roles include Chief Growth Officer at Tallēwise and enterprise leadership at Hillrom, where he worked with nurse call and RTLS technology. He understands the operational and financial considerations behind healthcare technology decisions and will support Sonitor’s work with enterprise healthcare organizations.
Best in KLAS in 2026 and 2024
Top rated award from healthcare providers
Sonitor has earned Best in KLAS recognition for RTLS twice in three years.
Based on direct feedback from healthcare organizations, the recognition reflects customers’ experience with Sonitor and the technology they use in real care environments.
We appreciate the healthcare teams who shared their feedback. Their experience helps guide our work, from product development to implementation and ongoing support.
EXPLORE OUR AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
Making Fall-Prevention Workflows More Visible
Clinical Insight
Fall-prevention protocols depend on consistent action at the bedside. Care teams need ways to see where coverage gaps may be developing and coordinate help when it is needed.
In her recent Sonitor article, Teresa Brasac explores how healthcare RTLS can support rounding visibility and nurse call automation. She explains why reliable room-level location matters when that information is used to trigger a clinical workflow.
The article connects precision location technology with the practical work of supporting safer patient care.
READ THE PATIENT SAFETY ARTICLE
Meet the People Behind Sonitor
Experience that connects technology with healthcare operations
The value of location intelligence depends on how well it fits the environment where it is used.
Sonitor’s leadership team brings experience in clinical practice, healthcare technology, and enterprise implementation. Chief Product Officer Sheila Minton contributes expertise in workflow orchestration and the application of real-time data to healthcare operations. Senior Vice President of Strategy Erik Davidson brings a background in healthcare, location technology, and enterprise software.
Together with colleagues across engineering, commercial leadership, and client success, they help shape how Sonitor’s technology addresses the needs of healthcare organizations.
Visit our leadership page to learn more about the people guiding that work.
About Sonitor
Sonitor is a global leader in real-time location intelligence for healthcare. For more than 25 years, the company has delivered high precision ultrasound-based RTLS technology and innovative workflow solutions that help hospitals operate more efficiently, safely, and effectively.
SonitorONE unifies six locating technologies with enterprise software applications and deep system integrations that support end-to-end operational automation.
Sonitor solutions have been trusted in more than 300 hospitals and health system deployments.
