Isaac Health Raises $5.7M to End Dementia Care Deserts and Build the Future of Brain Health Care Delivery
Summary
The need for specialist care is further exacerbated by the FDAs recent approval of a disease modifying therapy for early-stage Alzheimers disease which requires specialist evaluation and follow-up.In response, Isaac Health is redefining the future of brain healthcare by harnessing cutting-edge technology and predictive machine learning to identify patients with different cognitive and brain health conditions and enable center-of-excellence-level care to be scaled across communities. "This funding will enable us to accelerate our mission of providing high-quality patient-centered care for the evaluation and management of dementia and many other brain health conditions. It should mean early detection and proactive care, in and beyond the four walls of a clinic, said George Ribaroff, Partner at Meridian Street Capital. Isaac Health is also available to patients or their caregivers directly as a memory clinic service at myisaachealth.com.1 Defined by a ratio of 9 or less of general adult neurologists to 10,000 ADRD (Alzheimers Disease and Related Dementias) population projected for 2025 2 Dementia Neurology Deserts and Long-Term Care Insurance Claims Experience in the United States - How Does Limited Supply of Neurologists Correlate with Claims Experience Data?. Report by Anitha Rao and Robert Eaton, published by the Society of Actuaries May 2021 3 Lang L, Clifford A, Wei L, et al.