Grow Great River Region

by Jeff Hunt
Published:
Friday, March 19, 2010 3:46 PM CDT

Even in the face of a sagging economy, a company is planning to set up shop in Mt. Pleasant. According to Kiley Miller, executive vice president of the Mt. Pleasant Area Chamber Alliance, a health care technology company has taken the first steps to making Mt. Pleasant its new home.

“Biomedical Synergies, Inc. is a health care consulting and software development firm focused on the human tissue industry,” Miller said. “The company provides hospitals and surgery centers throughout the world with a patent-pending, comprehensive tissue and implant management system, TRACS4LifeT.”

Miller went on to say that on Thursday, the Iowa Economic Development Board approved an award for $250,000 from the entrepreneurial component of the Grow Iowa Values Financial Assistance Program to support the transfer of information technology services from an external source, to be brought in-house to better manage future development and expansion, becoming vertically integrated. Biomedical Synergies, Inc. will be relocating its call center in Mt. Pleasant from Minnesota.

“It’s very exciting for Mt. Pleasant to be part of a business that has as its goal to save lives,” said Miller. “Certainly there is the additional benefit of reduced liability to hospitals and greater efficiency to hospitals but also what we are talking about any time we get into health care is how do we save lives, and Mt. Pleasant is going to get to be a part of that.”