About Us

VSI has been in business since 1984. Current VSI offices are in Seattle, WA and Tuscaloosa, AL.

VSI has focused on three (3) principal business areas since its beginning:

1. Process improvement and specialized computing systems development and implementation.
2. The development of patentable software and associated processes and methods.
3. Providing high quality people services on behalf of our client's operations.

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Since 1998, VSI has concentrated on developing a comprehensive suite of software serving the practice of medicine, as well as the broader medical industry which serves the practive of medicine. VSI's now growing suite of such systems represents the future of the company, and is where VSI is concentrating its resources. Current production capabilities include 3 systems, all of which are now patent pending, with 2 more close to launch.

VSI has been concentrating on improving business processes through the use of process re-engineering, Lean, 6 Sigma and radical re-engieering in restructuring projects since its inception in 1984. Before 1987, VSI used a process improvement technique it developed called QUIC. When the term " re-engineering" became popular, VSI changed the QUIC name to Preferred Process Implementation, because that was what we were designing; i.e., processes which provided our clients with up to 90% reduction in cycle time, 1/2 cost or less to operate, and with high quality products and Customer Satisfaction. Over the past several years, we have added more Lean Sigma tools and techniques to the VSI process engineering tool kit as these have become accepted by our clients.

VSI has a long history of aiding clients in developing team-based organizations. VSI projects have included benchmarking the status of teaming in organizations around the globe, consulting on building teams, and team-based business process re-engineering. VSI helped design a building for Smiths Industries in England which was literally built around the company's technical, business, and manufacturing processes and their Integrated Product Teams (IPT's). This building received the Queen of England's Innovation Award. VSI is a team focused consulting firm. Call us and order a copy of VSI's "TEAMING" BENCHMARKING GUIDEBOOK.

PACS is a good example of our large scale integration capabilities. Modern enterprise PACS utilizes the n-tier architecture approach. Our prior work with large files, like radiology image and movie files, in the areas of 3D product design and manufacturing systems, meant that as we entered this emerging field 7 years ago, we could learn the differences, but continue with our base experiences. With people who have CCNT, MCSE, HL7, .NET, and DICOM qualifications, we are well suited to work in this area. Using this extensive background in current PACS as a backdrop, VSI has now developed and placed into production the first dynamic medical movie study PACS system, MPACS, which is HIPAA compliant and has portions of the system patent-pending.

As a natural result of our many exposures to various business and technical situations in our numerous clients, VSI has developed a knack for spotting the need for specialized computing systems which fill a niche market not large enough to attract the large, horizontal developers like Oracle or Microsoft. See our descriptions of the three systems we have developed recently which are available for sale or use commercially now, all of which have patents-pending. Keep coming back to our site; we announce new developments several times a year.