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

Research-Action to Be Taken

Action:

1. To address the issue of a lack of data about the scale and impacts of sporting head injuries in the UK, 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.

To facilitate this project, Podium Analytics announced in September 2021 the establishment of an Institute of Sports Medicine and Technology in partnership with the University of Oxford. This will be a 10-year financial commitment to the University with the aim to create a world- leading system to understand, monitor and prevent sport injury. This research will involve the new Institute producing an independent report to qualify and quantify the incidence of concussion in general and in sport in this country, its prevalence by individual sports, age and
gender and the associated costs to the UK economy of concussion in general and sports in particular. This will be the first such report of its kind and will allow the UK to become one of the first countries in the world to build up a clear picture of the current situation across the
world of sport. The Minister for Sport has encouraged all National Governing Bodies of sport to collaborate with Podium in their research programmes.

2. The Government 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. This will work with relevant parties to initiate the delivery of those priorities to address gaps in research.

Research will then be translated into relevant actions and will be short, medium and long term
(longitudinal). These projects will then be directed to existing research funding institutions. The
forum will also enable the sharing of findings of research across sports.

Milestones:

•      Findings from the Oxford University research study will be available by the end of March 2022.

•      The Sports Concussion Research Forum will be convened by Government by the end of January
2022, with initial findings presented later that year.

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