What Are Jaco Workstations and METRIQ Fleet Management Software from GCX?

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Jaco workstations are the mobile and wall-mounted computer carts GCX sells for bedside charting, medication passes, and other point-of-care documentation, while METRIQ is GCX's fleet management software for tracking and maintaining those carts once they're deployed. Both sit inside GCX's IT and EMR solutions line, which is aimed at hospitals standardizing how nurses and clinicians access electronic medical records at the point of care. If you're evaluating carts for a nursing unit or trying to get a handle on where your existing carts are and how they're performing, these two product families are the relevant starting points.

Jaco Workstations: What's in the Line

Jaco is the workstation brand within GCX's portfolio. The product list covers both mobile and wall-mounted options:

  • EVO Carts — the main mobile cart family, with EVO SE and EVO Lite variants for different budgets and configurations
  • EVO Wall Arms and EVO Wall Station — wall-mounted arms and stations for rooms where a rolling cart isn't practical
  • PerfectView Tablet Carts and PerfectView TV Carts — carts built around tablets and displays rather than a full laptop-and-keyboard setup
  • Jaco Mobile & Wall Mounted Workstations — the broader category these products fall under

The practical distinction is mobility versus fixed placement. A rolling EVO cart moves with the clinician from room to room; a wall arm or wall station stays in one spot and swings or folds out of the way. Tablet and TV carts serve workflows where the screen is the primary interface rather than a full keyboard-and-CPU setup.

Jaco also maintains a part library and a support section, which matters if you're servicing carts already in the field or need to match a replacement component to an existing unit.

METRIQ: Fleet Management for the Carts You Deploy

METRIQ is described as fleet management software. Its role is managing a deployed fleet of carts — the kind of problem that shows up once a hospital has dozens or hundreds of workstations spread across units and nobody has a clear picture of where they are or how they're holding up.

Fleet management software in this context generally addresses questions like: which carts are in service, where they're located, and what maintenance they need. GCX lists METRIQ alongside the Jaco hardware rather than as a standalone IT product, which suggests it's intended to be paired with Jaco carts rather than used as a general-purpose asset tracker.

If your question is specifically about what METRIQ tracks or how it integrates with hospital systems, that detail isn't visible in the product listing — the listing only names it as fleet management software. Confirming scope would mean talking to GCX directly.

Where These Fit in GCX's Broader Catalog

Jaco and METRIQ sit under IT and EMR Solutions, one of several solution areas GCX organizes its catalog around. The others include:

Solution area What it covers
Care Area Solutions Mounting standardized across perioperative, labor & delivery, patient room, ED, telemetry, central stations, ICU, telehealth, phlebotomy
IT and EMR Solutions Workstations, tablets, laptops, monitors, keyboards, CPU/UPS mounting — Jaco and METRIQ live here
Medical Device Solutions Mounts designed for specific monitoring brands (Philips, GE Healthcare, Dräger, Masimo, Zoll, and others)
Mounting locations Channel/wall, ceiling, carts and roll stands, post/pole, counter top, rail

That structure is worth knowing because it tells you how GCX thinks about the problem: the same mounting hardware ecosystem spans care areas, IT equipment, and third-party medical devices. A Jaco cart isn't an isolated purchase — it's one piece of a mounting standard you could extend across a facility.

How to Decide Whether to Look Further

Consider Jaco workstations if you need point-of-care computing that moves with the clinician (EVO carts), fits a room without floor space (EVO wall arms/stations), or centers on a tablet or display (PerfectView). The part library and support pages are useful if you're maintaining an existing fleet rather than buying new.

Consider METRIQ if you already have or are planning a large cart deployment and need fleet-level visibility. It's a management layer on top of hardware, not a substitute for it.

Look elsewhere in the GCX catalog if your actual need is mounting a specific medical device (a Philips monitor, a Zoll defibrillator) or standardizing mounts in a care area — those are separate solution lines with their own product sets.

The listing doesn't include pricing, configuration details, or METRIQ's specific feature set, so those are the questions to bring to GCX directly rather than infer from the catalog structure.