Nine digital health and wellness startup companies from around the world have been selected to take part in The Iron Yard’s 2014 Digital Health Accelerator. Two of those companies were founded by Iron Yard Academy alumni.
The program, based in Spartanburg, begins July 7, and the group will present at the Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco in September. It is the fourth accelerator cohort of the Iron Yard.
This year’s startup class includes:
aHoyDoc: An online chat service that allows potential patients visiting a physician’s website to ask questions or request an appointment to a trained professional representative that will assist them in real time, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Apothesource: Service platform and mobile app designed to simplify medication management.
BEE RESILIENT: Specializing in the creation and distribution of behavioral health education products. The platform cross-pollinates medical research, evidence-based programs, educators and vetted professionals.
Excep Apps: Mobile applications for individuals with special needs. Founded by an Iron Yard Academy alumni.
Hats Off Tech: NavAssist, the team’s first patient navigation development, is a mobile platform for connected care that facilitates care and communication between cancer patients and their families, navigators and physicians.
iClinical: Mobile platform for clinical trial analytics and data collection. Tablet-based data collection platform enables powerful and customized analytics for clinical trials in the healthcare market.
Intention Technology: Develops medical algorithms to assist in the early diagnosis of disease. A noninvasive medical diagnostic tool will enable home-based diagnosis of 15 different diseases.
Rally Fit: Leveraging the power of wearable activity tracking devices (e.g., Fitbit, Jawbone, Withings) through an all-inclusive social media Web application. Founded by an Iron Yard Academy alumni.
Recovr: Researches, develops and distributes virtual therapy games to improve the daily lives of people recovering from a stroke. Its first product is an interactive stroke rehabilitation game that patients use via an XBox gaming system.
Participants in the accelerator will receive:
–$20,000 in seed capital.
–Three months of mentorship and weekly workshops from experts in health care innovation, fundraising, UX/UI and development, design, lean startup methodology, team formation and financing.
–A full year of free coworking space surrounded by other innovators.
–Downtown housing in the same building as the accelerator and free access to bikes for getting around town.
