What Bow Medical does

Bow Medical is a privately held French software publisher (SAS) founded in 1999, headquartered in Amiens with regional offices in Paris, Villers-lès-Nancy, and Toulouse. The company develops and maintains the Diane software platform — a CE-certified Class IIb digital medical device under EU Regulation 2017/745, with notified body GMED (0459) — focused exclusively on critical care workflows across anesthesia consultation (Diane Poa), intraoperative anesthetic records (Diane Aims), intensive care (Diane Icu), neonatal intensive care (Diane Nicu), perinatal care (Diane Pnc), and resuscitation/emergency (Diane Resus). The platform is designed as an on-premise installation at client healthcare facilities, interoperable with HL7-based hospital electronic patient records and with biomedical devices (patient monitors, ventilators, infusion pumps), capturing structured clinical data intended for downstream analytics and AI. The company also offers complementary products DIAMM (hospital information system-integrated medical information management with RIS, lab, and Doctolib interfaces) and GENI (dietetic and obstetric monitoring).

Bow Medical sells primarily through direct enterprise field sales to hospitals and clinics in France, supported by technical and functional pre-sales audits and dedicated implementation account teams. In France it serves more than 450 hospitals and clinics, equipping roughly two-thirds of university hospitals (CHUs) and half of private MCO hospitals, and processes approximately 5 million computerized anesthesia consultations per year — about 70% of computerized anesthesia consultations nationally — across 3,000+ operating rooms and 1,200+ ICU beds. Revenue is generated through recurring software licenses for the Diane suite plus separate professional services contracts covering installation, configuration, corrective and preventive maintenance, ongoing development support, data migration, and reversibility. International expansion is driven via channel and distributor partnerships, including Dräger as official distributor in Romania (announced October 2025) and a distributor network covering Costa Rica, Croatia, Spain, Finland, Greece, India, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, Switzerland, and Portugal. Strategic alliances include Posos (AI-powered prescription re-entry Scan & Go module, expanded September 2025 at SFAR 2025) and Logipren (neonatal e-prescription database deployed in 60+ French NICUs/PICUs). Extens E-Health participates in the shareholder structure as an investment fund backing growth.

The company operates with approximately 83 employees spanning engineering, technical assistance, training, application engineering, and a growing commercial and marketing function, and has been recognized with a 2022 Great Place to Work label. Despite a 25+ year operating history, Bow Medical remains privately held with no public listing, no disclosed revenue figures, and no disclosed M&A activity. The Diane platform is described by the company as upgrading 1-2 times per year, and the data architecture is purposefully built to enable future AI and Big Data analytics over anonymized pooled patient data, though in-house AI/ML capabilities are limited and most AI functionality is delivered through partner integrations.

Name

Bow Medical

Legal name

BOW MEDICAL

Website

https://bowmedical.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Bow Medical is a French software publisher developing Diane, a CE-certified Class IIb on-premise medical device platform for anesthesia, intensive care, neonatal, and emergency workflows, serving 450+ hospitals and clinics primarily in France with growing international distributor reach.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Critical Care Medical Software

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Perioperative/Anesthesia & Surgical Documentation Systems (HLACAAAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Virtual Nursing, Telemonitoring & Command Center Platforms (HLACAFAH)

Keywords

• Critical care software
• Anesthesia information systems
• Intensive care software
• Neonatal care software
• Medical device software

Headquarters

HQ city

Boves

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Software License: Bow Medical grants healthcare facilities a limited, personal, non-transferable, non-sub-licensable, and non-exclusive license to use the Diane software for professional internal use. The license is granted for France and for the duration of the contractual relationship between the User and the Client. Software is installed on-premise at the client's site. Related services (installation, configuration, corrective and preventive maintenance, ongoing development support, data migration, and reversibility) are covered under a separate contract.
2. Professional Services: Bow Medical provides implementation, configuration, training, and ongoing development support services to healthcare facilities as part of its client engagement. Services include functional and technical assistance, deployment, staff training, and change management support, contributing to the overall revenue model alongside software licensing.

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Bow Medical develops and sells the Diane software platform, a Class IIb CE-certified digital medical device under EU Regulation 2017/745, dedicated to critical care. The modular suite covers anesthesia consultation (Diane Poa), anesthesia information management in operating theatres (Diane Aims), intensive care (Diane Icu), neonatal intensive care (Diane Nicu), resuscitation (Diane Resus), and perinatal care (Diane Pnc). The platform is sold as on-premise enterprise software to hospitals and clinics, complemented by DIAMM (hospital information system software) and GENI (dietetic monitoring software).

Product overview

Bow Medical provides a suite of specialized medical software solutions for critical care under the Diane platform brand, alongside standalone products DIAMM (medical information management) and GENI (dietetic monitoring). The Diane platform is a CE-certified Class IIb digital medical device offering a modular architecture: Diane Poa handles electronic preoperative anesthesia consultations; Diane Aims provides electronic anesthesia records for operating theatres; Diane Icu manages intensive care units; Diane Nicu covers neonatal intensive care; Diane Resus handles resuscitation and emergency care; and Diane Pnc manages perinatal care. All Diane modules can be used independently or together, are interoperable with hospital electronic patient records, and integrate with medical devices (monitors, ventilators, infusion pumps). DIAMM is a separate hospital information system-integrated product with RIS, laboratory, and appointment interfaces. GENI is a dietetic monitoring solution. Bow Medical serves over 450 hospitals and clinics, supporting approximately 5 million anesthesia consultations annually (about 70% of computerized consultations in France), more than 3,000 operating rooms, and over 1,200 ICU beds.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Diane: Integrated networked platform dedicated to critical care, encompassing modules for anaesthesia consultation (Diane Poa), anaesthesia information management (Diane Aims), intensive care (Diane Icu), neonatal care (Diane Nicu), perinatal care (Diane Pnc), and resuscitation (Diane Resus)
• GENI
• DIAMM

Products and services

• Diane Platform Integrated networked software platform for critical care management spanning anaesthesia, intensive care, neonatal care, resuscitation, and perinatal care. Connects medical devices, structures patient data, and integrates with hospital electronic patient records. Class IIb CE-certified medical device under EU Regulation 2017/745.
• Diane Poa Computerized preoperative anaesthesia assessment module enabling electronic management of anaesthesia consultations, including adaptive checklists, customizable forms, quick patient selection, access to historical information, interactive body maps, automatic timers, and simulation of unstable conditions for emergency preparedness. Used by anaesthesia departments in hospitals and clinics.
• Diane Aims Anaesthesia Information Management System (AIMS) module for electronic anaesthetic records and secure real-time monitoring in operating theatres. Features dynamic medication management, parameter monitoring, real-time medical device monitoring, integration into patient records, care reminder automation, and anaesthesia report generation.
• Diane Icu Intensive Care Unit management module enabling healthcare professionals to share, access, and analyze patient information. Includes ergonomic prescription engine, automatic integration of laboratory results and real-time medical data, personalized care plans, and comprehensive ICU monitoring.
• Diane Nicu Neonatal Care Unit module ensuring the security of all neonatal intensive care unit processes. Manages neonatal critical care workflows within the Diane platform, including neonatal-specific prescription and monitoring.
• Diane Resus Modular resuscitation and emergency care management solution for emergency department staff and acute patients. Provides vital emergency management tools for healthcare professionals in resuscitation/déchocage units.
• Diane Pnc Computerized and secure perinatal care module for safe monitoring of women and children during childbirth. Covers birth room/inDelivery suite management with secure digital documentation for obstetrics and perinatal teams.
• DIAMM Medical information management software integrated with the hospital information system. Provides interfaces with radiology systems (RIS), laboratory servers, and Doctolib for appointment management. Used for patient data management, scheduling, care diagram documentation, and SMS patient notifications.
• GENI Dietetic monitoring software for healthcare professionals. Manages obstetric and dietetic patient follow-up, providing tools for nutritional tracking and dietary care management.

Quantifiable outcome

• 5 million anaesthesia consultations per year processed (70% of computerized consultations in France)
• +7 more outcomes

Named customers16 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

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App detail

Integration6 records

AI capability5 records

Feature10 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• DrägercoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 2 October 2025Dräger, an international leader in medical and safety technology, became the official distributor of Diane software in Romania in October 2025. The partnership enables real-time transmission of biomedical data from Dräger's anaesthesia and intensive care stations directly into Diane Anesthesia and Diane ICU modules. Dräger supports Romanian hospitals and clinics with integration and use of the Diane software.
• PososcoreTechnology or Integration · 18 September 2025Posos and Bow Medical expanded their partnership at the SFAR 2025 congress to deploy Posos's 'Scan & Go' intelligent prescription re-entry module across Bow Medical's entire Diane product range, including Diane Consult online anaesthesia consultation solution. The module uses AI to automatically recognize and transcribe patient treatments from photographed or scanned prescriptions, eliminating up to 1.5 hours of manual data entry per day and reducing error sources. The integration covers more than 450 healthcare facilities and potentially over 5 million annual consultations.
• LogiprencoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBow Medical formed a strategic alliance with Logipren, the gold standard for electronic prescription software for neonates. This alliance allows Bow Medical to offer on top of its existing solutions a tool to manage the nutrition and prescription of newborns and children safely, with the goal of saving lives. Logipren is a patented drug database adapted to patient characteristics (gestational age, postnatal age, daily weight, indications). Used in more than 60 NICUs and PICUs in France.

Scale indicators12 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Dräger: Dräger is both a distribution partner of Bow Medical (Romania) and a direct competitor via its own Innovian Anesthesia and ICU information systems. Its installed base of anaesthesia workstations and ICU ventilators makes it the most directly comparable peer in the critical care software/device integration space.
• iMDsoft: iMDsoft's MetaVision is a dedicated ICU information system used in hospitals worldwide. It is one of the closest direct competitors to Diane Icu in the high-acuity clinical information system category.
• Ascom: Ascom's Digistat suite provides critical care, anaesthesia, and emergency department information systems in European hospitals, competing with multiple Diane modules in the same vertical.
• Picis (Harris Healthcare): Picis provides perioperative and anaesthesia information management systems, directly competing with Diane Aims and Diane Poa in the operating theatre and pre-op anaesthesia consultation workflow.

Broad incumbents

• GE HealthCare: GE HealthCare offers Centricity Critical Care and anaesthesia information management products as part of its broader patient monitoring and hospital IT portfolio, competing with Diane in mid-to-large hospital accounts while serving a much wider clinical footprint.
• Philips: Philips historically sold IntelliSpace Critical Care and Anesthesia (ICCA) alongside its IntelliVue patient monitors, competing with Bow Medical on integrated ICU/AIMS solutions for European hospitals before divesting parts of its connected care business.
• Dedalus: Dedalus is a major European healthcare IT vendor (and a stated integration partner of Bow Medical at CHU de Nice via Orbis) that competes in adjacent clinical modules and could bundle critical-care functionality into its broader hospital information suite.
• Mindray: Mindray combines patient monitoring hardware with integrated clinical information software, overlapping with Bow Medical's biomedical-device-integration value proposition and competing in anaesthesia/ICU information systems globally.
• Nihon Kohden: Nihon Kohden integrates patient monitoring with clinical information systems, competing with Bow Medical in the combined device-and-software critical care category, particularly in international markets.

Emerging players

• Capsule Technologies (Becton Dickinson): Capsule (acquired by BD) specializes in medical device connectivity and data integration, addressing a key technical layer of Bow Medical's Diane platform and competing for the same hospital interoperability and vendor-neutral device integration budgets.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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