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Startup profile: My Health Data
- Founded by: J-Shun Harris and Collin Francis
- Year founded: 2025
- Headquarters: Baltimore, MD
- Sector: Software
- Funding and valuation: $45,000 at an undisclosed valuation
- Key ecosystem partners: TEDCO, Towson University, Go Panda
J-Shun Harris’ startup, My Health Data, was born out of pain — and not just the kind that comes with years of complications from four ACL tears.
As a football player at Indiana University, Harris saw firsthand how difficult it could be for athletes to keep track of their medical histories across procedures, rehab and providers. My Health Data, cofounded by Collin Francis, aims to address that gap by letting student athletes manage their own records without drowning in university bureaucracy.
“You can imagine the amount of rehab notes, the amount of third-party doctors I’ve seen,” Harris told Technical.ly. “Now that I am seven plus years removed, all that information is no longer available.”
Since the app’s launch in June, users enter notes from medical appointments like physical exams, blood work and rehabilitation treatment onto the platform. It also tracks performance data and equipment preferences to help guide future recovery.
A more organized system also tackles a behind-the-scenes headache for the administrators managing those records — a problem that My Health Data’s cofounder Francis knows well.
As an athletics director at Howard University, Francis is no stranger to dealing with lost student files.
“I’ve seen the amount of time it [takes] for staff to appropriately get these medical records,” Francis said. “It gives an already busy staff that is managing these records just one more task.”
On both sides, it’s especially useful for student athletes who transfer — hardly a rarity, especially in football.
About 60% of top college football players transferred at least once in 2021, according to a New York Times analysis. It’s a trend that’s only growing as the National Collegiate Athletic Association relaxes transfer rules across sports.
The startup soft-launched the app with 600 college athletes, thanks to Francis’ deep roots as an athletic trainer. He previously worked for the Ravens and helped Harris recover at Indiana.
The app is free for now, but the duo plans to add a subscription fee down the road. Because users enter their own data, the startup avoids HIPAA compliance hurdles, Francis said.
Helping high school athletes
While the initial focus for My Health Data is college students, Francis sees other potential customers, too, such as younger generations.
My Health Data also launched for 100 high school athletes, and Francis is already seeing interest from parents.
“Parents of athletes who have multiple sports, different records, multiple kids,” Francis said, “[they] just have concerns about the continuity of care in these high-performance worlds.”
Their concern is well-founded: youth sports injuries are climbing.
A 2024 report from the American Academy of Pediatrics noted a sharp rise in overuse injuries among children, with female athletes and those in endurance sports at the highest risk.
For Francis, the app extends his nonprofit work at the Baltimore Area Sports Health Initiative, which focuses on healthcare access for local athletes.
“The more athletes have access to their healthcare information,” Francis said, “the more they’re able to learn and make educated decisions for their future.”
