Smartphone eye disease screener for kids closes $6M Series B
Summary
GoCheck, maker of a smartphone app that screens young children for amblyopia or “lazy eye,” has raised $6 million in a Series B investment round headed by FCA Venture Partners. After integrating with the provider’s EHR system, users select the patient’s profile in the GoCheck Kids app and take a single photo of the patient’s eyes. Designed as a low-cost alternative to dedicated screening hardware, which can cost a practice thousands of dollars to purchase, GoCheck Kids is available through a monthly subscription on pre-loaded devices. GoCheck will be focusing on additional EHR integrations and new artificial intelligence capabilities that leverage Apple’s CoreML and ARKit, according to the announcement. “Many childhood eye diseases, including amblyopia, myopia (near-sighted), hyperopia (far-sighted), and even retinoblastoma (rare but fatal childhood cancer) are not readily apparent or easily diagnosed by health care professionals,” Dr. David Huang, cofounder and CIO of GoCheck, said in a statement.