Issue 11 2019

Acquisition International - Issue 11 2019 29 Oct19122 Cutting-edge solutions With over 15 years of experience designing medical devices behind them, with the full force of the ASUS Group to provide technical expertise, with their products in high demand all over the world, we decided to catch up with ONYX Healthcare USA to find out more. ased in Orange, CA, ONYX is a major player in the arena of medical device design. Providing innovative and medically certified computing solutions since 1992, it’s no surprise that they have become a world leader in the field. These solutions have been applied everywhere from operating suites to ambulatory care to hospital administration. As a subsidiary of ASUS Group, ONYX is able to procure technology at the very cutting edge and find ways to apply this to medical technology. As an FDA registered manufacturer with ISO9001/13485 certified process control, ONYX pass the quality standard requirements for medical devices. Being able to work from this baseline means that they are able not only to provide their own solutions, but also turnkey solutions for other companies. By operating their platforms under these standards, they can address both current and future clinical requirements of health care records. As paper archives are replaced by the cloud, and an ever-increasing population, ONYX are already prepared to deliver cost-efficient electronic health- care record infrastructure. By implementing, and future-proofing, this technology, the intention is to improve patient outcomes while providing exceptional patient engagement experiences. Using their 15 years of medical design experiences, ONYX are able to leverage their embedded computing technology to design and manufacture medical grade (UL60601-1) fanless AiO system platforms and embedded boards. Using these parts as the building blocks to medical device OEM and healthcare IT business means that business can focus on other issues with their products, while knowing they have a strong baseline in the hardware. This trust reflects the reputation that ONYX have built up for themselves in the field as a leading provider of reliable hardware solutions. B It is no surprise that ONYX is in high demand around the world, being a leader of the utilisation of cutting-edge medical technology. Currently, ONYX provides professional design and manufacturing services for various medical device companies around the globe as well. ONYX project team members can, and have, served as subject matter experts to provide a design counselling service for medical grade technology in various critical applications. The medical grade computer industry constantly takes an interest in cutting edge technology but is often challenged by the long time it can take to adapt the technology for their purposes. Similarly, most medical technology requires extended product longevity support far beyond the needs of the commercial market. ONYX will continue to be a medical grade computer technology provider that provides state- of-the-arts medical grade computer technology with extended product longevity support to medical device OEMs and healthcare providers around the globe. What does the future hold for ONYX? ONYX Healthcare USA will continue developing various medical AI acceleration platforms. These platforms could be used for computer assisted surgery in surgical navigation and planning, for diagnostic imaging in computer aided detection, computer aided diagnosis, and endoscopy. It could also be applied to bioinformatics in next generation sequencing and drug development. ONYX is a huge firm with a huge job, and it does that job incredibly well. Providing such high-quality devices without fault takes a lot of expertise, and they continue to look forward. ONYX thrive on doing what is difficult and working on what is hard. It’s an attitude that has put them at the forefront of medical device design and technology. Contact: John Chuang Company: ONYX Healthcare USA Website: https://www.onyxhealthcareusa.com/ “ONYX thrive on doing what is difficult and working on what is hard. It’s an attitude that has put them at the forefront of medical device design and technology.”