Digital tissue analysis, breast cancer diagnostic among South Carolina digital health accelerator class
Summary
Tools to drive personalized medicine and a physician appointment scheduling app are among the digital health products under development in Spartanburg, South Carolina-based Iron Yard’s first healthcare accelerator class. Among the accelerator’s partners are JM Smith Corp., a holding company for six pharmaceutical and healthcare businesses, Mayo Clinic, AbbVie (Abbott Labs), Zebra Technologies, and BMW. Although the startups have to be in Spartanburg for the program’s duration, it’s a geographically diverse group with members representing India, Illinois, Texas and California along with South Carolina. ChartSpan has a personal health record platform for families that allows users to also carry around encrypted patient data on the mobile devices such as X-rays and other medical images and choose whether or not to share them. Second Light, co-founded by Ajay Pal Singh, is developing a software platform for seniors including social connectivity, medication adherence, physician visits and caregiver services.