Blueprint – a technology platform helping mental health clinicians deliver higher-quality care in less time – recently announced its $9 million Series A co-led by Ensemble VC and Lightbank with participation from Bonfire Ventures, Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, TAU Ventures, Data Tech Fund, and select angel investors. And Blueprint offers easy-to-use software for mental health clinicians to help them deliver effective, efficient, and personalized patient care through actionable data and insights. With the help of Blueprint’s platform, more than 180,000 patients have access to higher-quality mental health care.
Even though the U.S. has the highest number of mental health clinicians per capita compared to any other country, the mental health crisis has reached epidemic levels. And a record high of 29% of adults report being diagnosed with depression in their lifetime. Plus the U.S. spent $280 billion on mental health in 2020, but only 13% of patients with access to care achieved lasting improvement. The industry has also traditionally lacked technology solutions to help clinicians track data and measure and improve the effectiveness of treatment over time.
Blueprint offers data-driven insights to help clinicians inform their work and improve patient outcomes. And patients have the ability to share honest feedback and perspectives about their therapeutic sessions, and these findings give their clinician a “blueprint” to help inform their future treatment. Patients using Blueprint respond to treatment up to 44% faster compared to conventional mental health services.
For clinicians, Blueprint:
— Offers suggested session plans to surface the most important changes and events since the last session.
— Provides in-session guidance to deliver the right evidence-based interventions at the right time.
— Auto-generates clinical documentation for each session based on discrete data captured before, during, and after sessions, saving clinicians up to two hours per week on administrative work.
— Drives a 25% reduction in no-shows and cancellations, helping increase the effectiveness of treatment and keeping patients stay on track toward their goals.
For patients, Blueprint:
— Makes treatment more efficient and effective, helping save patients time and money while ensuring better health outcomes.
— Offers progress tracking across symptoms, sleep, exercise, and treatment goals to stay connected and confident through the inevitable ups and downs of a mental health journey.
— Provides therapeutic homework and quick assignments to put learnings from a session into practice throughout the week and keep patients on track between sessions.
— Gives patients safety nets with easier access to crisis resources in times of need.
Since the company announced its seed round in 2020, Blueprint has experienced rapid growth and impact in improving access to high-quality mental health care. About 4,500 clinicians across 34 states are utilizing its platform. And Blueprint has generated insights from more than one million completed sessions, creating one of the world’s largest multimodal mental healthcare datasets equating to 10 million days of information.
The new funding round will go toward supporting key hires across marketing, customer success, and engineering, launching new products and features, and driving clinicians nationwide toward measurement-based care.
KEY QUOTES:
“Blueprint’s mission is to empower clinicians to provide high-quality care in less time, so that we can save lives and improve care for patients suffering from mental health conditions. Our actionable and easy-to-use software is helping our customers transition to providing measurement-based care, creating a new standard for measuring outcomes where there have been none, and saving valuable time and resources to reduce burnout and help more patients.”
— Danny Freed, founder and CEO at Blueprint
“The secret sauce to company success lies in the founders and teams who turn ideas into game-changing products. We were impressed by Danny and his team’s ability to fundamentally transform the way clinicians measure, track, and deliver better patient outcomes. We’ve seen Blueprint’s profound impact on clinicians and patients, and believe the company will continue shaping the future of mental health care.”
— Conrad Shang, Managing Partner at Ensemble VC
“Blueprint has become an essential tool for our practice, saving us hours a week on documentation and paperwork and empowering us to spend more quality time with our patients. My team and I are focused on providing our patients with the best care possible. Blueprint helps us track results and suggest areas of improvement during treatment plans to help patients feel better faster.”
— Amy Green, LCSW, PMH-C, IMH-E, ERYT, founder and executive director at Nashville Collaborative Counseling Center
