OPTICS

What OPTICS does

OPTICS for Healthcare, headquartered in Gilbert, Arizona, is an AI-native SaaS platform purpose-built to help healthcare organizations prevent workplace violence through systematic risk assessment, regulatory compliance, and policy automation. The platform is organized around four pillars — Assessment, Analysis, Action, and Assurance — and comprises integrated modules including a Current State Risk Assessment that maps facility conditions to regulatory content, a GAP Analysis module that produces confidential recommendations and action steps, a Management Dashboard tracking assessments and plans, a Knowledge Hub containing expert policy content and live regulatory alerts, an Alerts and Compliance module delivering updates via email and text, and a workflow-managed Customized Policy and Playbooks module. Underlying capabilities include agentic AI with humans-in-the-loop, knowledge retrieval, predictive analytics, and anomaly detection applied to workplace violence risk data. The company was founded in 2022 by David K. Brake (CEO) and Kimberly A. Urbanek (Chief of Innovation & Practice), both of whom bring over 25 years of healthcare publishing and security expertise.

Name

OPTICS

Legal name

OPTICS for Healthcare

Website

https://opticshc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

OPTICS for Healthcare is an AI-native SaaS platform that helps hospitals, health systems, assisted living facilities, skilled nursing facilities, and physician practice groups prevent workplace violence, automate regulatory compliance, and generate customized policies and playbooks.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Workplace Safety Software

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Responsible AI, Security & Privacy Platforms (Safety, Guardrails, PII) (HDAEANAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

Model Monitoring, Accountability & Incident Management (HDAAAMAF)

Keywords

• Workplace violence prevention
• Healthcare safety software
• AI risk assessment
• Compliance management platform
• Healthcare policy automation

Headquarters

HQ city

Gilbert

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. SaaS Platform Subscription: AI-native platform subscription for workplace violence prevention, likely sold on a per-facility or enterprise basis with subscription pricing

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

OPTICS for Healthcare provides an AI-native SaaS platform that helps healthcare organizations prevent workplace violence through continuous risk assessment, gap analysis, regulatory monitoring, policy generation, and operational analytics. The platform combines agentic AI, knowledge retrieval, predictive analytics, and anomaly detection to surface threats, automate compliance, and guide intervention across hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living, and physician practices.

Product overview

OPTICS for Healthcare offers an AI-native platform built around four pillars: Assessment, Analysis, Action, and Assurance. The platform consists of multiple integrated modules including the Current State Risk Assessment (establishes facility baseline and maps to regulations), GAP Analysis (confidential report with recommendations), Management Dashboard (tracks status of all assessments and plans), Knowledge Hub (repository of policy content and regulatory alerts), Alerts and Compliance Info (delivered via email/text), and Customized Policy and Playbooks (drafted with workflow management). The platform uses agentic AI with humans in the loop to help healthcare organizations assess their current state, analyze risks, and create actionable prevention plans. OPTICS also offers a Pilot Program for healthcare organizations to collaborate on platform development.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• OPTICS Platform An AI-native SaaS platform for healthcare organizations that delivers continuous workplace violence risk assessment, gap analysis, regulatory monitoring, policy and playbook generation, and an operational management dashboard to support prevention, compliance, and intervention workflows.
• OPTICS Pilot Program A structured, time-bound onboarding and evaluation program through which selected healthcare organizations implement OPTICS at no cost during a defined pilot period to validate fit and outcomes before broader deployment.

Named customers1 record

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability5 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Secured & Prepared Consulting, LLCcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOwned by Paul Sarnese, Advisory Board Chairman. Paul is a Certified Healthcare Protection Administrator and Certified Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design Specialist, providing expertise in healthcare workplace violence program assessments.
• Lockton CompaniescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLori Severson serves as Vice President and Healthcare Team Lead for Lockton, one of the largest employee benefits and risk management companies in the world. Lockton brings risk management consulting expertise to the advisory board.
• Emergency Nurses Association (ENA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJennifer Schmitz serves as Chief Clinical Officer with ENA, bringing extensive emergency nursing and healthcare leadership experience to the advisory board.
• ASU Edson College of Nursing and Health InnovationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBarbara Marusiak serves as Director of the DPP in Regulatory and Clinical Research Management, providing academic and research perspective to the advisory board.
• Fairfield6 ConsultingminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerOwned by Eric Sean Clay, Advisory Board Member and Vice President of Security Services for a large Texas health system, providing healthcare security consulting.
• Strategic Security Management Consulting (SSMC)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerOwned by William Marcisz, Advisory Board Member and board-certified Security and Workplace Violence Consultant providing security consulting expertise.
• Healthcare Organizations (General Partnership)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOPTICS partners with healthcare organizations and companies serving healthcare providers on product pilots, research initiatives, white papers, and strategic collaborations that drive mutual success.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• Ethisphere: Ethisphere is a leading ethics, compliance, and governance data and advisory firm serving healthcare and other regulated industries. It is comparable as a thought leadership and benchmarking partner rather than a direct platform competitor.

Broad incumbents

• Verint: Verint provides workforce engagement and operational analytics software that includes risk, compliance, and employee safety monitoring used in healthcare contact centers and operations. It overlaps with OPTICS' safety and compliance analytics but as part of a much broader portfolio.
• Wolters Kluwer Health: Wolters Kluwer's healthcare division provides clinical decision support, regulatory compliance, and workforce solutions to hospitals. As one of OPTICS' CEO's former client companies, it represents a broad incumbent that could either partner or compete for healthcare compliance and policy workflow dollars.

Direct peers

• Riskonnect: Riskonnect is an enterprise risk management SaaS platform offering incident management, compliance, and policy modules used across healthcare, insurance, and other regulated industries. It overlaps with OPTICS' risk assessment, policy, and analytics capabilities at a broader enterprise level.
• symplr: symplr provides healthcare governance, risk, compliance, and workforce management software to hospitals and health systems. It competes for the same compliance and policy management budget that OPTICS targets, with broader module coverage but less specialization in workplace violence prevention.
• NAVEX Global: NAVEX Global is a major compliance and risk management SaaS vendor offering policy management, incident management, and ethics/compliance training. It is a direct competitor for healthcare organizations' policy and compliance budgets, though it serves all verticals rather than specializing in healthcare.
• RLDatix: RLDatix is a leading patient and workforce safety SaaS platform used by hospitals and health systems for incident reporting, risk management, and compliance. It is the closest comparable to OPTICS' positioning as a vertical AI platform for healthcare safety and policy management.
• Origami Risk: Origami Risk is a risk, safety, and insurance software platform used by healthcare organizations for claims, incidents, compliance, and policy management. It is a direct peer in workflow, target buyer, and competitive set.
• Resolver: Resolver (now part of Kroll) provides risk and compliance software including incident management, policy, and audit modules used by healthcare and other regulated organizations. Comparable to OPTICS in offering a risk-to-policy workflow with analytics and dashboards.

Emerging players

• LogicGate: LogicGate offers a flexible risk and compliance automation platform used by healthcare organizations for policy, third-party risk, and incident workflows. It is comparable as an emerging AI-era GRC platform but is more horizontal than OPTICS' vertical healthcare focus.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@OPTICShc
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/optics-for-healthcare

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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