About us
Your heart – our engine
The heart of the F1 car is its engine, and it is monitored to 1,000th of a second.
We apply the same precision to the human heart.
Combining performance-driven metrics with advanced cardiovascular science to detect irregular heart rhythms.
Diverse team of Experts
Our team includes former Formula 1 engineers, personnel, cardiologists, space medicine experts, data analysts, and developers.
It has taken the team ten years, numerous grants, trials and certifications to develop this ground-breaking solution for analysing your heart’s 24-hour performance.
Heart analysis with an F1 race approach
The BPI (Blood Pressure Index) Algorithm was inspired by former McLaren Team doctor, Dr Aki Hintsa, who recognised the need to analyse human performance in terms of the circadian rhythm, i.e. the entire 24-hour cycle, not just at a single point in time, or a race.
Hintsa’s holistic approach to well-being and performance focused on optimising physical health, mental resilience, and personal balance. At YourHeartCheck, we apply the same worldview to your heart’s performance, capturing and analysing every beat of your heart over several days.
Our story
“Back in 2008, we were taking 150 channels of telemetry data off an F1 car in near real time and using complex analysis to gain performance gains of 0.1 second and I sat there and wondered whether we could do the same for Human performance.”
“Talking to Dr Aki Hintsa, the McLaren team doctor, back in the day, I realised that we needed to start analysing our hearts performance, not just there and then, but throughout the whole 24-hour circadian cycle.”
“Working at the forefront of Artificial Intelligence since 2018, we learnt to train models on tens of thousands of people’s data, and then to apply this to medium-term Holter data has allowed us to generate a fidelity of understanding unsurpassed.”
Dr Chris Crockford, PhD, MBA
Cardiovascular AI analysis
YourHeartCheck.com was founded in 2024 to blend the latest in AI Analysis with Human CardioVascular performance.
Working with Digital & Future Technologies Limited, InnovateUK, UKRI and PulseAI, we’ve built our technologies using AI algorithms trained on over 110,000 subjects’ data.
Our ground-breaking BPI algorithm estimates your blood pressure every ten heartbeats and leverages sports science expertise to assess rest, recovery and performance. Instead of working with a single point reading from an inflatable cuff, we typically generate 8,500 estimations a day for your blood pressure, all from the same ECG patch.
Our founder
Re-imagining cardio-vascular systems performance
Dr Chris Crockford
BSC. MSc. MBA. PhD. MIEEE. MACM. MBCS. AFRMet. ARAeS. FRGS. FRA
YourHeartCheck.com was founded by Dr Chris Crockford. He is a PhD doctor not a Medical Doctor.
Having had the experience of taking part in two rounds of European Space Agency Astronaut selection, he has challenged his knowledge, skills and physiology more than most.
He was one of the few candidates to be selected by ESA in 2008 and again in 2021, making the last 1362 applicants from 23,307.
Building on his extensive experience from Formula1, he gained a ground breaking insight into human telemetry, build from scrupulous testing, track side analysis and reporting.
Chris became interested in human physiology after taking part in the Cauldwell Extreme Everest expedition in 2007.
During the expedition he would meet Professor Hugh Montgomery, Mr Mark Watson and Dr Sundeep Dhillon as he took part as a test subject, being tested daily for his physiological performance at altitude as he ascended up to Everest Base Camp and beyond.
For the 2008 through 2010 Chris worked as Business Development Director for McLaren F1, working across the business units of the McLaren Group.
In between works on protecting the IP of various race car suspension components and working on the development of telemetry systems, he furthered his interest in human physiology and performance, working with team doctor Aki Hintsa to fully comprehend the circadian rhythm cycle and its impact.
He was the named inventor on multiple patents for McLaren, exploiting the tacit knowledge within Formula 1 regarding telemetry and electronic data systems capture and its applicability to human telemetry and performance.
Chris left McLaren to exploit some new sensor technologies and developed a new medical device which could enable mass screening for the detection of Atrial Fibrillation, one of the leading causes of stroke, in mass populations.
He took the device from sensors and concept through to engineering and development and on to certification as a class 2a medical device.
He has published on the subject of proactive mass screening for cardiac arrhythmias in multiple journals and conference papers, and led the UK SLAF2 trial, developing the next generation of cardio and vascular performance monitoring.
