A scientifically-validated online cognitive assessment platform used by neuropsychologists to easily obtain additional measures of cognitive function

Neuropsychologists use CBS Health as a quick measure of cognitive function
to strengthen and complement neuropsychological batteries, and to aid in
the assessment of brain health.

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CBS Health is Based on Decades of Research and Linked Directly With Brain Function

CBS Health is a web-based assessment platform backed by the latest science. The CBS tasks are guided by research in the fields of neuropsychology, neuroscience, and neurology. Each task is based on a classic neuropsychological test, and the platform has been used in over 300 academic studies published in leading journals such as Nature and Neuron. Data from tens of thousands of participants and millions of completed tasks have demonstrated the tasks’ strong psychometric properties and validity. Furthermore, the CBS Health normative database is larger than that of almost any pen-and-paper test, enabling instant, accurate percentile scores adjusted by age and gender.

Brain imaging studies have directly linked neural activity in specific regions with each task, further validating the assessments, and allowing neuropsychologists to link performance with specific brain disorders and deficits.

The CBS Health battery is correlated with traditional assessments, such as the MoCA, MMSE, WAIS, and other intelligence tests. While CBS Health does not replace a full neuropsychological assessment, it can fill in gaps in your toolbox, reach patients for whom a full assessment is inappropriate, round out a telehealth plan, or act as a quick screen to determine the need for additional assessments.

Why Neuropsychologists Use CBS Health to
Measure Cognitive Function

Improve Neuropsychological Services With Complementary Cognitive and Mental Health Assessments

Add Valid, Evidence-Based Assessments to Your Toolbox

Complement existing neuropsychological tests and clinical observation with a quick and objective measure of the cognitive domains key to quality of life, such as memory, reasoning, verbal ability, and concentration. Use CBS Health to fill gaps in your assessment batteries, save money by replacing more expensive options, or use CBS Health when a full neuropsychological assessment is difficult or inappropriate, such as when seeing patients virtually or when time is short.
Easily Track Trends Over Time for Rich Longitudinal Data

Generate an easy-to-understand brain health report that highlights deficits, guides treatments, and measures change. Compare follow-up assessments to a baseline to track trends and determine if cognition is recovering or declining, then easily share reports with patients, other healthcare practitioners, or legal professionals. Assessments are backed by decades of research, and can be completed in person or in the comfort of a patient’s home without sacrificing validity.
Get a Comprehensive View of Brain Health With Integrated Mental Health Assessments

Collect self-report data on mental health using questionnaire assessments like the PHQ-9 and GAD-7 alongside cognition data. View and compare a wide range of key mental health markers to gain a full picture of a patient’s brain health. Address deficits related to brain injuries or medical conditions, aid in important decisions about recovery, and measure the full impact of therapy or other interventions.

Save You and Your Staff Valuable Time

Modernize Your Practice With Telemental Health Options

Send scientifically-validated assessments by email to reach patients when you can’t see them in person. Develop long-term relationships with patients and collect data on changes over time, automatically—perfect for practitioners and scientist-practitioners.
Reduce Manual Effort With Automation

Practitioners and admins save time and effort by automating tasks, such as sending scheduled assessments, maintaining and storing data, and finding patient reports. Performance is automatically—and instantly—compared to a normative database of over 75,000 people, and no manual scoring is required.
Get Brain Insights Faster

CBS Health cognitive task takes only a few minutes each, and reports comparing your patient’s performance to a normative database are generated immediately. The powerful reports can be used as a screening tool to determine the need for further evaluations, added to existing neuropsychological evaluations, or offered as a new service.

Increase Revenue for Your Neuropsychology Practice

Add Online Neuropsychology and Other Services

Use CBS Health to add new services and reach new patients. Some neuropsychologists receive payment directly for services such as:

Preventive services, such as yearly check-ins that assess cognition and mental health.
Telemental health services, such as listing your services in portals that connect patients from all over the country with remote therapists.
Additional services offered to clients in the health, occupational therapy, and legal systems.

Get Reimbursed For Assessments

The administration and interpretation of assessments is covered by many insurance providers. CBS Health assessments are:

Reimbursable under CPT codes related to neuropsychological assessments.
Improve therapy with no additional cost to the patient and potential revenue generation for the practice.

Learn more about reimbursement for CBS Health assessments

Reduce Unnecessary Spending

Cognitive data from CBS Health can be gained quickly and efficiently, saving time and money in areas such as:

Screening to determine the need for time-consuming, costly tests, such as full neuropsychological batteries or genetic testing; with more data at your disposal, you can stop spending time and money on dead ends.
Automated cognitive assessments can reduce spending on areas related to keeping in touch with patients, such as staff hours devoted to regular contact with long-term patients.

CBS Health is a Powerful Web-Based Tool for Neuropsychologists

Specialized tools are required to understand how a patient’s brain is working. CBS Health is an evidence-based assessment platform that uses the latest advancements in technology and data science to quickly assess a patient’s executive functions. Neuropsychologists can quantify deficits in a patient’s cognitive function, design effective treatments, and track recovery. Any adults, children, or seniors with acute, chronic, or evolving impairment in cognition—or at risk for such impairments—can benefit from regular assessment of cognitive function, and CBS Health makes it easier than ever.

Insightful Patient Reports in Less Than 15 Minutes

Reports are powerful, yet simple and easy to read, allowing you to instantly view results and share them with patients and clients without extra modifications or explanations.

Review your patient’s percentile rank relative to others of the same age group and gender using our proprietary normative database, made up of more than 75,000 individuals.

A validity indicator and meaningful change calculation help make sure each result and trend is genuinely linked to brain activity.

A customized assessment can take 15 minutes or less, and results are generated instantly—no manual scoring required.

Patient-friendly task descriptions link results with subjective symptoms to turn “brain fog” into specific deficits that can be discussed and measured.

Raw data is available for research purposes, or to examine additional in-depth metrics about performance on each task.

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Engage Patients With a Low-Pressure, Fun, Gamified Assessment Experience

Some patients can be intimidated by long, rigid assessments—especially if they are already suffering from anxiety or other mental health difficulties. CBS Health assessments are designed to ease patients into the tasks with a quick, game-like experience that removes the pressure.

Send links via email to allow your patients to complete assessments in the comfort of their own homes.

Self-guided interactive task tutorials help ensure your patients quickly get up to speed on task instructions.

Easily customize assessments for specific patient groups—like shortening the battery, turning off sound, or adding practice rounds—to create the targeted patient experience you need.

Go Beyond the MoCA With Continuous Measures of Cognition

Mental health assessments, and tests of mental status, are valuable sources of information in a neuropsychologist's toolkit. Some assessments are subjective, relying on self-report, or they are designed for a specific purpose, such as screening for severe impairment. CBS Health provides objective, continuous measures of cognitive performance that can be used to assess brain health in struggling, recovering, and healthy patients, instead of or in addition to administering a full pencil-and-paper standardized intelligence test.

For more specialized needs, administer self-report assessments, like the PHQ-9 and GAD-7, as well as other questionnaires, right within CBS Health. View subjective and objective assessments side by side and get a full snapshot of a patient’s brain health in one report.

Easy to Get Up and Running and Easy to Administer,
With No Special Hardware or Software Required

Cloud-based & secure, meeting or exceeding HIPAA industry standards.

Support for modern desktop browsers and tablets. Tasks can be completed using common inputs like touch, mouse, or trackpad devices.

Friendly one-on-one support to help you integrate CBS Health into your practice and make the most of its powerful features.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Are CBS Health tasks valid and reliable?

Overall, CBS Health has psychometric properties that meet or exceed the standards set by the traditional scales and tools that neuropsychologists are used to. Various types of validity have been established through decades of scientific research and clinical usage, and the CBS Health tasks are direct descendents of some of the most trusted traditional neuropsychological tests available. Reliability is strong for a short test of cognition—the tasks themselves have test-retest reliabilities in the acceptable to excellent range (see Hampshire et al., 2012, supplementary materials), and features such as customizable email instructions and interactive tutorials further increase reliability in the healthcare context supported by CBS Health.

What scores are provided for each CBS Health task?

Standard scores and percentiles are provided for each task administered. Standard scores are all scaled the same way as many intelligence tests, with a population average of 100 and a standard deviation of 15, so different tasks can be directly compared with one another. Percentiles show the precise percentage of the population that the patient scored higher than. Additional metrics, such as the validity indicator and meaningful change, are also provided, and raw data can be generated to examine additional metrics, such as reaction time.

Who are patients being compared to in standard scores and percentile scores?

Each score on the CBS Health report is based on a comparison with a population of the same age range and gender as the patient. The population database was collected in the course of several large-scale worldwide studies, such as the Fractionating Human Intelligence paper published in Neuron. The tens of thousands of participants in the database are from several countries, and were not screened for any particular disorders, so the database is designed to be representative of the entire population.

Can CBS Health diagnose mental health disorders?

CBS Health is designed to be an assessment, rather than a diagnostic tool. The objective data on how a patient compares with an age-matched population may assist in the diagnosis of disorders with a cognitive component. However, CBS Health should be used in conjunction with other information and clinical judgement to reach conclusions regarding an individual’s health. Ultimately, CBS Health does not replace the judgement of a qualified provider.

Is training needed to administer CBS Health assessments and supervise patients while they take them?

CBS Health assessments can be set up, sent, and automated by any practitioner or admin. No special training is needed, and patients do not need to be supervised or monitored while taking the tasks. A validity indicator is built in to detect unusual behaviour, and evidence has shown that tasks administered remotely are comparable to in-person testing (see Sternin, Burns, & Owen, 2019). That said, properly interpreting cognitive assessment data and making clinical judgments based on that data requires expertise. CBS Health is one tool in the repertoire of a trained neuropsychologist or other healthcare professional, and does not replace professional expertise.

Can patients take CBS Health assessments multiple times?

CBS Health tasks are randomly generated and adapt to the patient’s performance in real time. These features make them appropriate for assessing patients multiple times, as answers cannot be prepared for or memorized, and practice effects are minimal. Many practitioners use CBS Health to assess patients regularly over the course of multiple months or years. The CBS Health normative database contains participants given multiple administrations of each task, enabling analysis of trends over time. As you work with patients, you are able to see how they compare against previous scores and baseline assessments, and how those changes compare to established norms.

Can CBS Health assessments be sent by email when offering telehealth services?

CBS Health was built from the ground up as a web-based platform that can be accessed by any patient from any location. Built-in features allow you to instantly send an assessment to a patient by email, or set up an email assessment schedule to automate remote testing. You may also generate URLs to copy into your own email system. Interactive tutorials and other instructions ensure that patients can complete tasks without supervision, and a validity indicator highlights any potentially invalid results. See also: Five Ways to Increase Compliance When Sending Cognitive Assessments by Email.

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