Leveraging digital technology to equip neurologists with an instant overview of patient cognition

There is a clinical need to streamline  referrals for neuropsychological assessments

IntelliSpace Cognition offers instant and comprehensive results to enable neurologist action

IntelliSpace Cognition provides the neurologist with an overview of cognition in clear and understandable cognitive domains. The application integrates instructions, automated scoring, and a full digital record, allowing playback of how individual tasks were performed. The cognitive performance of the patient can be tracked over time to monitor changes in cognition. 

IntelliSpace Cognition immediately analyzes test data for an overview of patient cognition to help in making referral decisions

The current clinical workflow at a neurology office may not provide a neurologist sufficient information about cognition. The neurologist, needs to decide who should be referred to a neuropsychologist for a full neuropsychology assessment in an objective manner. IntelliSpace Cognition offers objective results through normed cognitive domains and provides a more robust measure of cognition to help enable physician to take the most appropriate course of action and, when necessary, a firm justification for referral. At the neurologist’s office, IntelliSpace Cognition requires supervision by a healthcare professional and integrates into the workflow of the practice. IntelliSpace Cognition helps evaluate a patient’s cognitive performance by first facilitating high quality data collection for well-known validated neuropsychological tests, applying artificial intelligence to score them, and then using a structural equation model to map the outcome measures onto well recognized cognitive domains.² These domains have been normed for a healthy peer group of the US population. After seeing the concept, 75%of neurologists felt confident that IntelliSpace Cognition would help in selecting which patients need a neuropsychological assessment.³

IntelliSpace Cognition to follow changes in cognition

While it’s important to be well informed before making the initial decision for a referral, it is almost inevitable that the choice of treatment for a neurological disease will also impact the patient’s cognition. Only in very rare situations would it be possible to repeat full neuropsychological assessments to monitor the patient’s progress. With IntelliSpace Cognition, the cognitive domain score can be compared between periodic assessments and used to monitor and, thus helping to inform any treatment adaptation.