Successful Cloud Migration for a Voice-Controlled Medical Assistant
The client
Nodus Medical is a Zurich healthcare startup building a digital assistant that surgical teams control by voice during an operation. Leading surgeons founded it together with Air Force pilots and technology enthusiasts, and its workflow solution for surgery takes its cues from aviation.
The platform is sold as software as a service and is used in hospitals across Europe, streamlining the surgical process by supplying useful data during a procedure and lowering the mental load on the surgeon.
The challengeWhat the teams actually needed
With strong market traction behind it, the company needed to scale securely and robustly — the data it supplies during life-changing procedures is mission-critical.
Challenge 01Scaling without risk
Growth had to happen in a way that does not put a surgical system’s reliability in question.
Challenge 02Dozens of critical choices
Migrating to AWS means making a great many decisions, each of which is awkward to reverse later.
Challenge 03Mission-critical by definition
The data involved is used during operations, which sets the bar for security and robustness higher than commercial software usually needs.
What we did
From design partner to cloud migration
Netguru had already handled the platform’s interface and experience design and built its frontend. The DevOps consulting team then migrated the infrastructure to Amazon Web Services.
UX, UI and frontend
The first engagement covered the design of the platform and the frontend that carries it into the operating theatre.
Choices made deliberately
A migration of this kind turns on the preparation — getting the critical choices right before anything moves.
Onto AWS
The infrastructure was successfully migrated to Amazon Web Services by the DevOps consulting team.
Ready to scale
The company can now grow its product securely and robustly, which is what the surgical setting demands.
Client testimonial
Since we operate in healthcare, where tolerance for critical issues is relatively low, we’re constantly improving the quality of our software. But the truth is that if you can get to save these thousand lives every day, everything else does not matter that much.
Tech stackThe tools that made it possible
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AWS
Where the platform’s infrastructure now runs.
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What’s next