Northeast Ohio Global Healthcare Leader Celebrates 40 Years and Life-Saving Achievements
Codonics award-winning medical imaging solutions & patient safety devices are improving global healthcare
MAY 23, 2022. CODONICS is an award-winning, leading manufacturer of world-class medical solutions and patient safety devices. Headquartered in the nationally recognized medical industry hub of Cleveland, Ohio, Codonics dedicated team develops, designs, sells and supports its full product line.
Incorporated in 1982, Codonics was grown from one person’s true entrepreneurial spirit, starting from a solo mission to an international company with a well-established brand in the medical field. Today, Codonics has over 60,000 product installations and is represented in over 120 countries. Started in a rented 8-foot by 10-foot room of a friend’s condominium, the company originated as a computer graphics manufacturer. Codonics quickly evolved to medical imaging and in 1983, moved to its first office space located on Englewood Drive in Middleburg Heights. This location remains the company’s world headquarters, but now spans three buildings and nearly 100,000 square feet, home to production, warehousing, engineering research and development, service, sales, marketing and administrative offices. Codonics also has remote offices in the U.S., France, and China.
“I really couldn’t imagine a better location than Northeast Ohio for Codonics. Middleburg Heights has proximity to shipping hubs and the Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport. The area is also a center for medical research and development and world-renowned hospitals such as The Cleveland Clinic, Metro Health and University Hospitals,” said Peter O. Botten, President & CEO. “I believe that this locale has really played a part in both our domestic and international growth, and helped us to achieve our fortieth year in business.”
Codonics initial products, used in hospital radiology, centered on hardcopy printing of diagnostic radiographic images on film and paper as well as recording a patient’s exam and report onto CD/DVD. These products, known as the Horizon® Multi-media Imager and the Virtua® Medical Disc Publisher are still flagship offerings outside the U.S. Codonics also supplies radiology with a wireless DR solution as well as a portable x-ray device which enables mobile x-ray to be quickly brought to the care area for applications such as triage in disaster situations and military field hospitals. These products helped provide critical patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic, and more recently, the company donated x-ray equipment to Ukraine as part of humanitarian aid to the country.
With years of successful brand building and a proven record of releasing breakthrough medical products, in 2009 Codonics partnered with Massachusetts General Hospital and developed the Codonics Safe Label System® (SLS). The Safe Label System received FDA Class II Medical Device approval as a first-of-its-kind predicate device in its class. A transformative safety system, the product opened an entirely new marketspace for fast, safe and compliant electronic tagging of medications in the perioperative environment. Today, SLS is highly awarded for innovation and is the standard of care with more than 11,000 installations in over 800 of the world’s leading hospitals. It has been used in more than 41 million procedures and over 167 million drug preparations, helping to prevent over 1.2 million medication errors. The product line continues to be innovated to meet the changing and growing needs of healthcare.
More recently, the company has expanded with products that help detect and deter diversion of hospital narcotic drugs as well as a QC device that verifies the identity and concentration of drugs prepared for chemotherapy and compounding in a hospital pharmacy, both of which continue to position the company as a leader for patient safety solutions.
The company will celebrate its 40th anniversary on May 26 at the company’s headquarters. Middleburg Heights Mayor Castelli and Director of Economic Development Charles Bichara will attend. Festivities will be kicked off with the Proclamation delivered by Mayor Castelli, followed by an aerial photo of employees, lunch by Mission BBQ and much more.