New Albany Startup Developing Innovative Diagnostics

A startup located in the New Albany Business Development Center is gaining notice for its technology that analyzes scanned blood samples and diagnoses whether the samples indicate infections for diseases such as leukemia and tuberculosis.  Software developed by American Health Technology Corp (AHT) has the potential to boost the speed and accuracy of blood diagnostics by automating a process that often requires a significant amount of human labor and time. 

The first big test of the company’s technology involves evaluating its ability to identify malaria parasites in blood samples – a process that requires a trained diagnostician to examine individual samples under a microscope to make the diagnosis. 

Joe Borovsky, AHT president, says the company is currently working with a Pennsylvania nonprofit organization charged with addressing the void in malaria diagnostics, Hydas World Health.  Hydas has a large sample set of malaria slides that could be used to validate AHT’s technology. 

“If a computer can be trained to recognize the parasite in its myriad presentations … that would be very significant,” says Roy Prescott, president of Hydas. 

For more on AHT, see the story in MedCity News