Magewell Capture and Encoding Solutions Enable Robust Remote Medical Workflows for Careprod Technologies
- The Customer: Careprod Technologies, Montpellier, France
- The Challenge: Bringing standard and specialized video signals from medical equipment into the Orsync remote medical proctoring solution
- The Solution: Magewell Eco Capture, Ultra Encode, and Ultra Stream
- The Benefits: High quality, reliability, extensive input signal compatibility, and tight integration via Magewell APIs
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A subsidiary of the healthcare-focused integration and audiovisual production company Careprod, Careprod Technologies develops innovative, automated solutions tailored to operating rooms and medical videoconferencing. Based in Montpellier, the company has a presence in 15 countries and participates in the NEXT French Healthcare program, a startup acceleration initiative that helps French digital health and medical technology companies expand into new international markets.
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Careprod Technologies' flagship product is the remote medical proctoring solution now known as Orsync. Initially named Skill Assist, and later Lynks, before its latest rebranding, Orsync is a 4G/5G mobile video assistance solution that enables on-site and off-site surgeons to securely train, monitor, collaborate, and communicate with each other in real-time.
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Originally designed to meet neurovascular needs for a leading medical device manufacturer, Orsync has evolved to meet the requirements for a wide range of surgeries. To date, the solution has enabled over 299 cases to be broadcast live from operating rooms to specialists around the world, with more than 100 kits deployed globally.
The Challenge
When Careprod Technologies was developing Orsync, they required flexible video connectivity solutions to bring diverse signals into the system from a range of medical equipment. Additionally, given the critical nature of medical applications, video quality and reliability were of the utmost importance.
“When connecting to medical devices, the frame rates and video formats are often different from standard video signals,” said Loic Lalet, CEO of Careprod Technologies. “Robustness and reliability in handling these specialized video signals is crucial for medical applications, where they need to be transmitted without any loss of data or signal degradation.”
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The Solution
Careprod Technologies chose Magewell products for their robustness, reliability, and high-quality video capture and distribution capabilities. Magewell capture, encoding, and streaming products were seamlessly integrated into the Orsync solution. Each Orsync kit is equipped with an Eco Capture Dual HDMI M.2 video capture card, Ultra Stream live streaming encoder, and one or more Ultra Encode HDMI live media encoders.
The Eco Capture card allows users to connect HDMI video feeds from any medical equipment directly to the Orsync application running on a portable CPU unit. Eco Capture's ultra-compact form factor (22x80mm) made it ideal for incorporation into the small host system.
HDMI or SDI video feeds from additional medical equipment can be connected to the standalone Ultra Encode units, which encode the source video into NDI® HX streams and transmit them to Orsync over Wi-Fi. An Ultra Stream unit embedded within the host CPU unit encodes a dedicated video output from the system’s Nvidia CPU for RTMP streaming and recording of the entire session.
The Results
Careprod Technologies has been completely satisfied with how Magewell solutions have enabled them to meet their business goals. “Magewell's products have been able to handle the unique requirements of medical video distribution, providing reliable, high-quality video capture and distribution even in demanding environments,” said Lalet. “Magewell's devices offer the flexibility to handle a wide range of video formats, resolutions, and frame rates, including interlaced video and specialized formats such as non-standard frame rates.”
Careprod Technologies has fully integrated Magewell products into the Orsync application using Magewell's comprehensive SDK and APIs. “This has allowed us to have complete control over the configuration and management of the video capture and encoding process,” Lalet explained. “With this level of direct communication, we can optimize the performance of the Magewell devices and ensure seamless integration with our software to grab the video feeds, stream via a Wowza platform, and record locally on a USB stick.”
Lalet's satisfaction with Magewell extends beyond the products themselves. “It’s critical for us to know that the development team behind the devices is available,” said Lalet. “We’ve had the opportunity to engage with Magewell developers to help us better utilize the API when needed, which has empowered us to deliver better solutions to our customers. This level of support has helped us build trust, enabling us to grow our business globally. The support from Trigitec has been exceptional as well.”