90% of traumatic brain Injuries go un-diagnosed. Brain injuries often need hospital diagnosis

 

Instant Brain Health Insights With Objective Results In Real-Time.

 

Brain Health Now (BHN) is a UK MedTech company developing a portable EEG headband that connects to a smartphone to detect brain injury in real time. Using AI-supported software, it provides rapid assessment outside hospitals.

Designed for sport, defence, and high-risk workplaces, the system delivers instant guidance — “fit to play” or “seek care” — helping identify injuries earlier and reduce long-term health risks while easing pressure on healthcare services.

BHN is currently conducting academic validation trials, refining its hardware for scalable manufacturing, and improving its machine-learning models. The project will also contribute to building the UK’s largest anonymised EEG dataset for future AI and clinical research.

Working with partners including Leeds Carnegie and Nottingham University, BHN is preparing for rapid deployment following validation, helping position the UK at the forefront of next-generation brain trauma detection.

A Lifelong Record For Your Brain Health

Brain Health Now is a UK MedTech company developing a portable EEG headband that connects to a smartphone app to assess brain health instantly outside hospitals.

Designed for sport, defence, and high-risk workplaces, the lightweight wearable provides fast, objective brain monitoring at the point of impact. This helps coaches, medics, and supervisors make safer, evidence-based decisions when brain injury or concussion is suspected.

By bringing hospital-grade brain monitoring to real-world environments, Brain Health Now aims to improve early detection of brain injuries that often go undiagnosed due to the lack of rapid, reliable assessment tools.

1,200,000 Head Injuries Are Un-Recognised Annually

The system provides immediate readings of brain activity, analysed by advanced software to offer a clear “fit to play” or “seek further care” recommendation. It also creates a secure, lifelong brain health record for each user, offering valuable long-term insight.

In parallel, anonymised brain data from consenting users will be added to what we aim to become the largest EEG database in the world, a powerful resource for future research into concussion, dementia, PTSD, and other neurological conditions.

Where BHN’s Technology Works

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Athletes

Several contact sports (e.g. football, hockey, lacrosse, and wrestling) are known for high rates of head injuries. While improved gear, stronger regulations, and player education has helped with raising awareness, there is a diagnostic void for proper identification of players affected by a mTBI.

Uniformed Services

TBI is a significant health issue for service men and women due to injuries that occur during training and military operations. The impact of which affects the level of unit readiness and troop retention. The Army has noted that combat medics need to be able to accurately and objectively assess soldiers with mild to moderate TBI

Summary of Main Actions

1. The Government is supporting plans for a world-leading research project led by the University of Oxford and backed by the sport concussion charity, Podium Analytics. The plans for this project were announced in September 2021.

2. DCMS is convening a “sports concussion research forum” in conjunction with the Medical Research Council to bring together sports and academics to identify the priority research questions for the sector. The forum will be convened by the end of January 2022.

3. DCMS will commission a set of shared protocols around concussion in sport. We will build upon the existing work undertaken across the different nations of the UK and internationally while working collaboratively with stakeholders to develop a single set of shared guidelines across the whole of the UK. Shared protocols will be agreed in 2022.

4. The Minister for Sport will write to UK Sport and Sport England to explore what more can be done to ensure that the shared protocols be implemented by those sports in receipt of public funding. The Minster will contact UK Sport and Sport England on that basis in December 2021.

5. DCMS will create a distribution network of key stakeholders in receipt of new concussion protocols to be widely shared across the sport and education sectors by summer 2022.

6. DCMS is working with Mr Geller and LOTG to look at ways of strengthening and coordinating links across Government. We will aim to set in place more effective protocols and pathways for use in treating concussion in sport injuries in NHS Accident & Emergency settings which will focus on the specific needs and issues of individuals and continually improve the safety of players of all levels, genders and ages across sport by June 2022.

7. DCMS will be asking sports to convene with player associations to discuss training protocols. DCMS ministers will stress to sports the crucial need to account for the long-term welfare of players when considering their training methods. The Minister for Sport will write to National Governing bodies on that basis in December 2021.

8. DCMS will also explore further the possibility of working with the Premier League on a pilot scheme for clubs to embed player welfare as part of the governance of their organisations which could then be extended across the sporting sector. We will convene a meeting with the Premier League and relevant Premier League clubs in early 2022 with a view to agreeing a pilot scheme later that year.

9. DCMS will convene a roundtable of tech companies with an interest in finding technological innovations and solutions designed to mitigate the effects and instances of concussion in sport. The roundtable will be convened by the end of 2021.

10. The sports concussion research forum will be asked to identify technological advancements to mitigate concussion in sport issues, which can be translated into practical improvements for players by autumn 2022.

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