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The company has conduct-
ed in-depth research before
launching the system, and had
patents on a vital signs trans-
mission process. Their proj-
ect portfolio consists of work
done with the Telehealth Ex-
act Research Center for the
U.S. Army as well as the Ca-
nadian Space Agency, where
they aided in simulating the
space environment and used
their technology to transmit
the vital signs of the astro-
nauts -- a joint venture with
McGill University. Their en-
gineers have worked with the
Canadian Space Agency and
their technology was “ahead
of everything else, which
proved that we were on the
right track after these success-
ful projects.”
Though, after the financial
crash in 2008, Americans
wanted to conduct their busi-
ness with domestic companies
not external to their country,
so expanding to international
markets became difficult to
enter. “We have patents for
Canada, the U.S. and Western
Europe... though we have cer-
tain logistics problems with
Europe because of the elec-
trical components.” The firm
wishes to expand in the rest
of Canada, having been suc-
cessful in Quebec, and have
assembled a bi-lingual system
and are in the midst of work-
ing on a Spanish version for
the international market. “We
have all the Canadian certi-
fications… Health Canada
grades our equipment and we
are ISO 9001/13485, FCC and
CSA certified. Our standards
of quality are very high and
we’re audited every year by
the ISO organization.” To fur-
ther enhance efficiency and
accessibility, the company is
