This Startup Just Raised $8 Million to Help Busy Doctors Assess the Cognitive Health of 50 Million Seniors

Texas startup BrainCheck offers a cognitive healthcare product to help doctors evaluate and track the mental health of their customers, and it has tapped $8 million in Series A funding co-led by S3 Ventures and Tensility Venture Partners, reports TechCrunch . BrainCheck CEO Yael Katz says their product digitizes and gamifies cognitive assessment tests usually handled by neuropsychologists, and made them available to wider range of professionals, including neurologists and primary care physicians. Assessment is performed via iPad and takes roughly 10 minutes. "They're typically administered in a doctor's office by medical technicians," Katz notes. The tests are objective tasks, such as connect the dots, that measure speed and accuracy. Doctors subscribe to the product on a monthly basis, through a tiered pricing model measured by volume. BrainCheck also has a solution that uses the output of cognitive tests to provide clinical support so doctors can manage customers' cognitive health, with scalable personalized recommendations.