Center for Business Support and Economic Innovation

Client Companies

The following three companies have been selected to be the first participants in the Terre Haute Innovation Alliance program:

DesAcc Inc. is a leading medical software engineering company whose products are used for analysis of digital medical images such as X-rays or MRIs. The company, whose products are currently in use at more than 5,000 healthcare facilities in more than 30 countries, is expanding into new applications that will include diagnostic image analysis, work flow, patient reporting and other aspects of medicine that involve digital data. Over the last 12 months, DesAcc has collaborated with Adobe Systems? to develop three new products that focus on providing clinical context to the Adobe Systems? line of software products and services. DesAcc plans to release these new clinical applications in the immediate future. Contact: Walter Balcavage, Ph.D., Director of Business Development, (812) 244-4187, wbalcavage@desacc.com

InfraWare is a Terre Haute-based software company started in 2003 by Rose-Hulman graduate Nick Mahurin. The company has developed a next-generation software platform for providing medical transcripts or medical reports more efficiently. Medical transcription is a $10 billion industry that has a shortage of qualified workers and a fragmented workforce. InfraWare plans to launch a national and international marketing effort for its third generation of software that increases productivity, reduces production costs and accelerates turn-around times of medical transcription. Contact: Nick Mahurin, CEO, (812) 235-7239, x1840, nick.mahurin@infraware.com

Novus Technologies
Novus Technologies is a new company founded by Indiana State University junior Drew Loftus. Novus Technologies is currently developing new Internet search technology focused specifically on helping users find more relevant news content in the most simple and timely fashion. The world is a rapidly changing place and the search technology currently being developed at Novus is designed to help computer users of all skill levels match life interests directly to relevant content. The World Wide Web is so expansive that finding news of importance in a variety of mediums from blogs to newspapers is a lengthy and cumbersome process. Novus' mission is to allow a level of customized news delivery and intuition never before available online. Contact: Drew Loftus, Founder and President, (317) 341-5467, tloftus@mymail.indstate.edu