The Iron Yard’s Digital Health Accelerator cohort includes startups aimed at first responders, doctors, diabetes, personal fitness and cyber security, according to The Iron Yard Ventures today.
Selected from a 200-member applicant pool, each of the nine companies will receive $20,000 in investment and office space at The Iron Yard in Spartanburg, where they will build their companies for the next three months.
“These nine startups and their founders are a diverse group with standout backgrounds that are solving real problems that have potential to improve our healthcare system and make significant impact in customer’s lives as well as their bottom line,” said Iron Yard Ventures Managing Director Marty Bauer.
The fifth cohort will receive help with marketing, branding, legal work and accounting services, and will have access to the program’s full-time developer, designer and executive in residence. Startups also participate in an August demo day in Spartanburg and the Health 2.0 conference in Silicon Valley in October.
The nine companies come from Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Kansas City, San Francisco, New Jersey and Virginia.
Winner of last year’s Startup Weekend in Greenville, the ProAlert app helps first responders save time by integrating dispatch data with GPS and including a treatment protocol reference.
Prenovate helps patients with chronic conditions improve their health by helping them track, analyze and make changes to their eating patterns.
Play-It Health provides software that helps patients adhere to their medication prescriptions by reminding them when and how much of each prescription to take.
Headsup Health gives patients more control of their health information by letting them record and manage their personal health and fitness records.
Intuneto allows people to share their health and fitness habits on a platform in order to engage and inspire other users.
This security software detects and prevents cyber threats.
Hygeia Health helps clinicians capture vital records information in one place using a so-called “outpatient kiosk” that reduces transcription errors.
DMS provides a decision management platform for clinicians and patients dealing with diabetes care.
Described as “Siri for doctors,” Glass Chart develops mobile software tools to improve physician healthcare delivery.
