As we said last week, it was crunch time! This Tuesday we completed our Final Design Review (FDR) documents. These included an executive summary, testing procedures, product manuals, bill of materials, and much much more. We also created a promotional… Read More

We are approaching FDR very fast! This week was a major crunch for the entire team. We worked very hard to prepare our presentation and ensure that any outlying bugs were squashed as soon as possible. There is still some… Read More

This week we recovered from PID 2 by continuing to work on our project. Vitalis completed the data pipeline needed to transfer data from the pi in to the server and out to the web app and database. Speaking of… Read More

Vitalis was able to demo many new features of our device during last month’s prototype inspection day. We were able to show all and explain the state of our current prototype and also explain and justify the countless decisions we’ve… Read More

This week, we were mainly focusing on getting back up to speed as we came back to campus from our Spring Break. While we did unplug over the break, we were able to make significant progress especially with the chassis… Read More

This week, we made a huge step forward by wiring up our safe shutdown button! This button now allows users to turn off the device while avoiding corruption and data loss. These are key components in protecting patient health information… Read More

This week was incredibly eventful for this team. The main highlight included testing the ER. After last week’s unfortunate cancellation of the test on Friday the 20th, we were able to reschedule for this past Thursday and iron out many… Read More

This week, Vitalis made progress in integrating a camera with our prototype, and worked an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) system for reading patient data. Additionally, the team completed iterating on the design of our chassis. This culminated another print of… Read More

Vitalis is excited to have a great first chassis iteration and plan to begin testing at Shands in one of their ICUs during a faux code call! Our first iteration features an easy to use interface and with a small… Read More

The week of January 30th was packed for team Vitalis! First, on Tuesday, the team defended their current design implementations/self-ratings in various categories in front of a panel of judges. Our team planned accordingly and did our very best, and… Read More

Last week, the team mapped out our goals for the next few months—and it’s an ambitious plan! Even in just Week 1, Vitalis has started off strong making significant progress on both the hardware and software sides of the project.… Read More

The team had a very refreshing winter break and is ready to continue developing the prototype! The main action item for this week was to coordinate meeting times with everyone’s schedules and hash out goals for the semester. Alongside this,… Read More