Exciting News - Groovy / Grails Project Getting Some Press

As I've mentioned in previous blog posts, the company I work for has been working quite diligently on developing a device and software system that will be used in clinical trials to collect and process ECG data.  The ultimate goal is to help ensure safety of drugs during the development process; we believe that the device and process we've created will provide much higher quality data in a much shorter amount of time.  At its core, the device records 5 minutes of ECG data, and 30 seconds of voice data.  The voice data is used to perform biometric matches to ensure demographic data integrity, and to prevent fraud.  Data transmission is done via HTTPS, and is processed asynchronously on the server.  Once processed on the server, the data is available in real-time for review by selected cardiologists.  Upon performing the review, the analyzed data is available via web interface for real time review by study sponsors and regulatory authorities.

Speaking of regulatory authorities, we've recently received 510K approval from the FDA that we can move forward with this project!

With all of the marketing / general news, one thing that probably won't be communicated is the geek stuff happening behind the scenes. This project heavily leverages Groovy / Grails throughout the entire system work-flow.  Simply put, the following tools have greatly contributed to the success of this project:

• Groovy Swing Builder for the richer UI portions
• Groovy Scriptom for integration with Windows COM dependencies (low level ECG processing with software developed by our Italian friends)
• Grails for the server side stuff, heavily leveraging the Quartz plugin for asynchronous processing

Recent news postings:

• Spaulding IQ One-Button Handheld ECG Device Receives FDA Approval
• Spaulding thinks small to succeed