When a competitor announced it was releasing a new patient monitor, GEMS-IT decided they had to meet the challenge and create a new and improved patient monitor to replace their successful Solar series. The Solar monitors were developed over 8 years ago, and made use of some 20 year-old network infrastructure pieces. The monitors can display over 20 different types of information in real-time, and are used primarily in all nurses stations.

NVISIA assisted in all aspects of the project, including requirements, architecture, design, coding, testing and implementation. The project is still active and is the largest NVISIA project to date, with up to 15 consultants working on it.

The patient monitor is a very complex piece of equipment. The hardware was custom built by GEMS-IT and a custom version of the Debian Linux distribution runs on it. The NVISIA team worked closely with the GEMS-IT team and their domain experts to create a high-performance application that met all of the strict GE and FDA regulations.

While the product has not yet been released, early reviews have been very favorable. John Lalonde of GEMS said he would not have started the project without NVISIA.

This project is a perfect example of our business-critical criteria – quick time to market to ensure GE would not lose market share, with very high quality due to the critical application of this system that would need to be in use for at least 5 years.