Linus Health vs Neurotrack (2026)
Both give primary care a short digital cognitive check, and they differ in what happens after the test. Linus Health scores behavior with machine learning: its Digital Clock and Recall reads how a patient draws a clock and recalls words in about three minutes, and the suite adds speech, hearing, gait and trail making tools and a remote battery. Neurotrack calls itself a cognitive care enablement platform. Three assessments, Symbol Match, Path Points and Word Recall, start with a step of about three minutes, and Smart Logic chooses what to give next, combines results with EHR context to surface a diagnostic pathway, and drafts a care plan. The company does not say how Smart Logic works. Linus puts more into the measurement itself; Neurotrack puts more into the workflow from result to care plan.
- A clock drawing and recall test scored by machine learning on drawing and speech behavior.
- Speech, hearing, gait and trail making tools, plus a remote battery for home use.
- A report with the recordings behind the score.
- Three short assessments: Symbol Match, Path Points and Word Recall, taken in clinic or at home.
- Smart Logic, which picks the next assessment and surfaces a DSM-5 aligned diagnostic pathway using EHR context.
- Care plan drafting for mild cognitive impairment and dementia.
This comparison is published by AI Health Index, an independent research platform that compares healthcare AI vendors objectively. Linus Health and Neurotrack are each graded against the same capability taxonomy, from each vendor's own public materials and the regulatory record, under the AI Health Index verification standard. No vendor pays for placement, and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Plain facts
| Fact | Linus Health | Neurotrack |
|---|---|---|
| Primary category | Clinical Decision Support | Clinical Decision Support |
| Founded | 2019 | 2012 |
| Headquarters | Boston, Massachusetts, United States | Redwood City, California, United States |
| Website | linushealth.com | neurotrack.com |
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Each vendor in one paragraph
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Digital cognitive assessment platform that scores drawing, speech and stylus behavior with machine learning models. The flagship Core Cognitive Evaluation combines the Digital Clock and Recall (DCR), a clock drawing and three word recall test of about three minutes built on the DCTclock, with a Life and Health Questionnaire, and returns a provider report with the recordings behind the score, a personalized action plan and care pathway guidance.
Source: AI Health Index, September 2026
Neurotrack describes itself as a cognitive care enablement platform: digital cognitive assessments, an adaptive layer it calls Smart Logic, and care planning support, sold to help providers assess, diagnose and care for people with mild cognitive impairment and dementia. The assessments are Symbol Match (processing speed and visual attention), Path Points (a digital trail making task for executive function) and Word Recall (verbal memory); the first step takes about three minutes and can be taken in clinic, remotely or at home.
Source: AI Health Index, September 2026
Questions buyers ask
How do Linus Health and Neurotrack work with the EHR?
For Linus Health, the athenahealth Marketplace release (June 2023) says the platform is integrated with athenaOne so results appear in the EHR, with Healthtopia Clinics quoted on results arriving in its record, and a neurology chair at an unnamed California health system describes integration with Cerner on the health systems page.
The platform page says Neurotrack integrates directly into existing EHR environments, connects to major EHR platforms, and generates structured documentation that flows automatically into the patient record, including assessment results, DSM-5 aligned documentation and care plans. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 29, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
How are Linus Health and Neurotrack priced and sold?
In Linus Health's case, the terms and conditions of sale set fees by order form or statement of work, payable within 30 days of invoice, with iPads and styluses either supplied by the company or bought by the customer.
The platform page says cognitive screening and care planning are reimbursable under Medicare Annual Wellness Visits and CPT 99483, which tells a provider how the service can be billed but not what Neurotrack charges. The health plan case is built on risk adjusted revenue under the V28 model, where dementia severity drives the risk score. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 29, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
How do Linus Health and Neurotrack handle patient data?
Against that, the terms and conditions of sale grant the company a perpetual, irrevocable license to use customer data in aggregated, de-identified form "for the sole purpose of enhancing and improving the Linus Health Services", and the terms of use allow personal data to be used to test, benchmark, enhance and improve products.
In Neurotrack's case, the rest of the lifecycle is looser. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 29, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
Which settings and specialties do Linus Health and Neurotrack cover?
For Linus Health, the company sells to medical practices and health systems for early detection of cognitive impairment in primary care and specialty triage, to health plans for risk identification and diagnosis capture, and to trial sponsors for prescreening and outcome measurement. The Digital Clock and Recall is sold to detect cognitive impairment and, in the company's research, to estimate amyloid positivity.
With Neurotrack, the value based care tie is explicit: the health plan page sells the assessments as documentation for V28 HCC risk adjustment, where dementia severity drives the risk score, and cites a national Medicare Advantage plan that made the assessment standard in its home based Annual Wellness Visit program. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 29, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
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Other published head to head assessments involving these vendors or their closest peers. The full set for this category is on the Clinical Decision Support page.
Both records were reviewed on this site in September 2026. Neither company publishes a price. Neurotrack does not describe how Smart Logic works.
Ask both how their result is validated against a clinician's diagnosis, and in what population.