Onyx designs PCs specifically for medical devices

The firm now supports over 60% of hospitals in Taiwan.

Onyx Healthcare Inc. is reshaping embedded computing for clinical environments by designing systems as medical devices from the start—not retrofitting commercial PCs. The company, part of the Go Healthy with Taiwan 2025 media campaign visits, detailed its strategy for long-term medtech collaboration and global regulatory compliance.

“From a capability perspective… We design our products based on designing medical devices. So we're not designing a PC here,” said John Chuang, Founder and CEO of Onyx Healthcare Inc. “If, on day one, your design is based on designing a medical device, that makes a lot of things easier.”

To enhance scalability, Onyx upgraded its entire production capability to GMP and QMS standards, enabling full contract manufacturing of finished medical devices. “We evolve our production... so that we set ourselves out to be able to have full capability… to provide counter manufacturing,” Chuang added.

The firm’s presence in Taiwan’s hospital system is significant. During the pandemic, Onyx collaborated with Taipei Medical University Hospital to launch telemedicine initiatives for emergency care and rural access. “They open up to provide an emergency council based on telemedicine,” Chuang said.

“More than 60% of the hospitals in Taiwan… have all deployed our mobile nursing workstation,” he said, adding that these systems support real-time access to electronic health records. “Our differentiation… we establish ourselves as a med tech company like they are. So we evolve the same way they do.”