Clinical Practice
CNS Vital Signs provides clinicians and researchers with leading edge neurocognitive and behavioral health assessment technologies that efficiently collects valid and reliable brain & behavioral clinical endpoints for a more objective view of a patient’s functional status, disease progression, and outcomes.Computerized neurocognitive / neuropsychological assessments provide clinicians with valuable neurodevelopmental, neurodegenerative, and acquired disorders of brain function clinical endpoints. The CNS Vital Signs assessment tools are frequently used as an initial patient in-take process (96116, 90801) or as part of the overall neurological or psychiatric assessment, which may include other procedures (96118, 19, 20 or 96101, 02, 03) such as full neuropsychological evaluation, CT scan, MRI, EEG, SPECT scan etc.
The CNS Vital Signs assessment platform combines both objective neurocognitive tests and well known evidence-based medical rating scales to give the practicing clinician and researcher an efficient method to collect valid and reliable neurocognitive markers as well as patient symptoms, behaviors, and possible comorbidities to assess the clinical relationship between brain function (central nervous system) and neurocognitive/behavioral dysfunction. CNS Vital Signs has taken a LIFESPAN approach… collecting a large normative reference group from ages 8 to 90. The normative comparison helps clinicians grade the level of neurocognitive impairment and help rule-in or rule-out certain clinical conditions. The CNS Vital Signs assessment platform has been deployed in numerous clinical and research settings to aid and support clinical practice and research activities along the CARE CONTINUUM:
Clinicians use CNS Vital Signs as a BRIEF-CORE assessment to get a rapid or immediate read on a patient’s neurocognitive status. Brain and behavioral specialists use CNS Vital Signs in combination with other valid assessments to gain a deeper knowledge and understanding of an individual patient’s status and then continue using CNS Vital Signs to to guide rehabilitation and patient management, track treatment or intervention outcomes, and disease progression.
CNS Vital Signs tests and auto-scored results provide the clinician with a broader spectrum of clinical domains and the sensitivity to assessing neurocognitive function is such that they often reveal abnormality in the absence of positive findings in CT and MRI scans e.g. concussion. Moreover, they can identify patterns of impairment that are not determinable through other procedures, assisting in the evaluation and management process and leading to more appropriate treatment recommendations. CNS Vital Signs supports many recently updated neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric clinical guidelines as well as assessing neurocognition in conditions such as chemo brain, obesity, bariatric and post-surgery procedures, as well as healthy aging programs. Neurocognitive testing (HCPCS, CPT) procedure codes are found under "Central Nervous System Assessments /Tests" category and are used with both ICD (medical) and DSM (psychiatric) diagnoses codes. Computerized neurocognitive testing procedures are clinically indicated and medically necessary when patients display signs and symptoms and/or clinicians suspect of neurocognitive and/or neurobehavioral dysfunction.
CNS Vital Signs assessment platforms enables practice efficiencies with availability on multiple computer platforms… locally testing on Laptop or Desktop computers via software application, Web-based assessments via CNSVS Online, and even on handhelds such as the iPad, iPhone, and Droid products. The CNS Vital Signs assessment technologies can also be used to add efficiency to large scale screening, patient in-takes, research activities as well as everyday practice needs. The assessment platforms are HIPAA and 21 CFR 11 (FDA) compliant in maintaining the secure and systematic documentation of the clinical data.
Adding Efficiency and Standardization to Neurocognitive & Behavioral Assessments
The assessment platforms are easy to configure and use in busy clinic settings. Patients usually like taking the tests and appreciate the fact that their clinician has a tool to objectively measure their neurocognitive status and systematically collect their symptom, behavioral, and comorbidity information.
To get started just REGISTER, download, and install the VSX assessment software. Each clinician will receive 5 free test session trials. If you are a current VS7 user the VSX will overwrite your VS7 application while retaining you current testing sessions.
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