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Examples of Our Work
During our nearly 20-year history, Syncro Medical has worked for clients in many
sectors of the health care industry. Following are selected examples of recent engagements.
The extent of Syncro Medical’s involvement is entirely dependent on individual client needs.
In some cases, Syncro is asked to handle all of the software design, implementation and test for their new products.
In other cases (where the client has their own software department), Syncro is brought in to help with selected modules that
their internal engineering staff doesn’t have the bandwidth or skill set
to handle themselves. In many projects, Syncro Medical also performs user interface and
technical prototyping in order to accelerate requirements definition.
In all of our engagements, Syncro complies with FDA process, and utilizes its
considerable expertise in medical product design and implementation.
Patient Monitoring
• Vital-Sign Monitors
To accelerate time to market for the next generation of this client’s product line, Syncro
Medical played a lead role in designing and implementing a new, high performance user interface.
As part of the UI re-engineering effort, we successfully introduced
state of the art software technologies to render realtime waveform displays and extensive parametric data.
Syncro Medical further assisted the client by architecting a
realtime database system optimized for the product’s
memory-constrained environment. When implemented by Syncro, the new database system
facilitated realtime capture and storage of patient data for
subsequent clinical review.
Syncro also integrated external interfaces for both data
acquisition (e.g., SpO2, ECG, BIS, and Spirometry sensors), and
data output (to specialized printers).
(C#, .NET, WPF, DirectX, Windows Embedded, SQL Server, ADO.NET; Rational Rose UML, StarUML; Parasoft)
• Wireless ECG Monitoring System
Because its internal engineering staff was fully booked with other projects, this client engaged
Syncro Medical to provide the complete software engineering effort for a new monitoring system
concept. Development of
the device, which provides continuous wireless ECG monitoring of at-risk patients, began with a sketch
on the whiteboard. Syncro performed requirements analysis, design, implementation and test of the networked,
desktop-based monitoring application. Having
received FDA approval, the product is now being
marketed and Syncro is providing ongoing support as new features are added.
(C#, .NET, IIS, SQL Server, ASP.NET)
• Web server-based Patient Monitor
Recognizing a gap in its internal bandwidth and technical capabilities, this
client turned to Syncro Medical to web-enable its central nurses
station product line. We designed and implemented a web server-based
application to facilitate remote monitoring and display
capability of its central nurses station via desktop browsers.
(C#, .NET, IIS, SQL Server, ASP.NET)
Imaging and Visualization Systems
• Intravascular Imaging System
As part of its development strategy, this large, multinational
firm decided not to invest in an internal software staff and
instead established a long-term relationship with Syncro Medical
for both new product development and sustaining engineering. Syncro created the software architecture
and designed the
user interface for a completely new, next-generation
intravascular ultrasound device. Under very tight product
release deadlines, Syncro successfully implemented the new
system in full compliance with FDA process, including realtime
data acquisition, high performance image processing and
rendering, and DICOM archiving. Syncro continues to provide ongoing maintenance, support
and major software upgrades for the product.
(C#, .NET, custom controls, DirectX/GDI, Windows XP, Rational XDE)
• DICOM Viewer
Having
implemented full DICOM archiving capability for this firm’s
imaging system, Syncro Medical then designed and implemented a
custom Windows application to facilitate viewing of specialized
DICOM-based archives.
(C#, .NET, Windows XP)
• Laser Spectroscopy-based Plaque
Detection
This startup company is developing technologies to determine
the content of atherosclerotic plaque, as an indication of
whether plaque rupture is likely to occur. The company engaged Syncro to be its complete software
staff, providing full software requirements, design,
implementation, test and process compliance for a custom
console. The
application handles commands from the user, and collects data from a
specialized catheter and CCD camera. The results are
processed through custom spectral
analysis software, and then displayed to help detect suspect lesions
and map their location within the coronary arteries.
(C#, .NET, Windows Embedded)
Clinical Laboratory Instruments
• Immunoassay Instrument Product Line
During our
nearly 10-year relationship with this firm, Syncro Medical has
assisted with nearly every aspect of their immunoassay
instruments. Applying engineering teams of varying size and specialized
expertise, Syncro has helped accelerate development time for
robotics applications, LIS interfaces, realtime embedded
control, database development and user interface for this firm’s
immunoassay instruments product line.
(C++, Visual Basic, Windows, Rational Rose UML)
• Integrated Chemistry System LIS and OPC
In order to keep its internal development
staff focused on the final stages of implementation for a
complex system upgrade, this client utilized Syncro Medical to
handle several ‘non-core’ tasks. For example, Syncro was engaged to implement the
Laboratory Information System (LIS) interface for the next
generation chemistry analysis system. The LIS interface connects the instrument’s informatics
layer to the external protocol via an ASTM-compatible
translation component. Syncro Medical also implemented a suite of Power on Self
Test (POST) routines. And we implemented an OPC (OLE for Process Control)
interface to provide standards-based external communication and
control.
(C#, .NET, C++, Windows)
Other Medical Instruments
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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) System
This startup firm engaged Syncro Medical to function as its
software department for the development of its first-to-market
TMS system. Under the guidance of the client’s R&D executive,
Syncro’s engineering team worked alongside other outsource firms
to design and implement the new system. Syncro developed software that
handles clinician user interaction and manages the TMS therapy
session.
Full patient prescription/treatment information is maintained in
a separate database application developed by Syncro Medical.
(C#, .NET, custom controls, SQL)
• Defibrillator
This company
engaged Syncro to create a comprehensive software-based simulator in order to obtain user
feedback and thereby refine requirements for a next-generation defibrillator/ monitor.
Syncro developed the simulator and then provided rapid turn-around as new and modified UI
concepts were introduced for subsequent user meetings. Syncro then performed complete software
requirements analysis and traceability for the product.
(C++, PEG, Integrity; CaliberRM)
• Sleep and Respiratory System
In order to meet aggressive product release deadlines, this client engaged
Syncro Medical to take on certain portions of their product development effort.
Syncro prototyped and developed the user interface for a next-generation ventilator.
In addition, Syncro Medical implemented modem-based external communication
from the patient device to the responsible clinician.
(Embedded C++, PEG, Windows/ThreadX)
• Cystometry Application
Because this client didn’t have in-house Windows development capability, Syncro was engaged to
create a Windows application to operate in conjunction with
their urodynamic diagnostic instrument. The
HIPAA-compliant application developed by Syncro Medical collects data from
the microprocessor-based instrument, and then summarizes,
displays and reports the findings for patient studies.
(C#, .NET)
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