A scientifically-validated online cognitive assessment platform used by addiction and rehab centers to accurately measure cognitive function

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Cognition is Closely Linked With Substance Abuse and Detox

Addiction is closely intertwined with cognition, with multiple factors—such as drug effects, withdrawal effects, and probability of relapse—linked with cognitive capacity. It is crucial for rehab specialists to consider cognition.

A baseline cognitive assessment can identify deficits related to substance abuse, help identify patients that need the most attention, and guide choice in treatment programs. Follow-up assessments during treatment may highlight improvements, measure the effects of withdrawal, and provide information about the risk for relapse. Finally, Creyos Health cognitive assessments can be sent by email as part of a telemedicine program, making them ideal for post-treatment follow up or outpatient programs, demonstrating to patients that treatment programs are having measurable effects on their brain health and improving their ability to engage in the cognitive tasks that affect quality of life.

Overall, the APA proposes that cognition is central to drug addiction.

Every patient is different, so it is important to measure a patient’s brain health at several points during a treatment program. Creyos Health assesses 12 core areas of cognition, and has built-in questionnaires to assess substance use, depression, anxiety, and ADHD, identifying the specific deficits and strengths for a patient, and measuring how they change as a result of treatment.

Why Addiction Treatment Specialists Use Creyos Health
to Objectively Measure Cognitive Function

Improve Addiction Treatment

Objectively Measure Cognition for Evidence-Based Rehab Programs

Cognitive measures that complement existing assessment evaluations can help further guide addiction treatment decisions. Quickly measure the cognitive domains key to quality of life, such as memory, reasoning, verbal ability, and concentration.
Drive Long-Term Success by Tracking Brain Health Throughout Treatment

Start with baseline brain health information, then validate that therapy, medication, and other treatments are having the desired effects, or identify deficits that can affect treatment adherence to efficiently direct resources.
Get a Comprehensive View of Brain Health With Integrated Self-Report Assessments

Collect self-report data using questionnaires like the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) and Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST-10). Add the PHQ-9 measure of depression, GAD-7 measure of anxiety, and ASRS measure of attention deficit disorder, to measure mental health markers as well. Questionnaires can be included alongside cognition data in one seamless protocol to measure the full impact of treatment programs and long-term results across multiple health markers.

Save Time and Increase Convenience For Your Addiction Treatment Center

Modernize Your Practice With Virtual Outpatient Treatment

Send assessments by email to reach patients before or after inpatient treatment programs. Monitor for signs of relapse and develop long-term aftercare support partnerships with your patients.
Easily Add Assessments to Any Program

Self-guided cognitive testing from Creyos Health requires no specialized training to administer—physicians, nurses, psychiatrists, and wellness specialists have all incorporated assessments into their programs.
Reduce Manual Effort and Get Insights Faster

Save additional time and effort by automating tasks, such as sending scheduled assessments. Each cognitive task takes only a few minutes, and reports comparing your patient’s performance to a normative database are generated immediately.

Increase Your Rehab Center’s Revenue

Add New Services to Rehab Programs

Use Creyos Health to add services that benefit patients. Some centers receive payment directly for services such as:

New inpatient services and specialized treatments—evidence-based brain assessment services can easily be incorporated into a comprehensive treatment program.
New virtual care programs and outpatient care. Send assessments remotely to remove barriers to treatment, and automate data collection with customizable scheduling. Cognition measurement can play a role in fully virtual telehealth programs, day treatment, outpatient treatment, or relapse prevention coaching following inpatient treatment.

Incorporate Reimbursable Assessments

For qualified practitioners at centers that accept insurance program payments, the administration and interpretation of assessments is covered by many insurance providers, such as Medicare, Medicaid, Blue Cross, Aetna, United and a variety of others, subject to the terms of the CBS Health Reimbursement Guide.

Reimbursable under CPT codes related to neuropsychological assessments.
Complement other assessments you may be conducting to prove necessity of treatment, which may be required to gain reimbursement for your standard procedures.

Learn more about reimbursement for Creyos Health assessments

Step Up Marketing Efforts With Evidence-Based Insights

Easily collect brain health data that helps measure the success of rehab programs.

Highlight the benefits of evidence-based care, and collect objective data about recovery success. Complement success rates with data on cognitive health.
Maintain communication with patients using automated assessments that keep patients engaged in their long-term success.

Creyos Health Makes it Easy for Addiction Centers to Address Brain Health

Substance abuse, withdrawal, and mental illness are strongly linked with cognitive functioning. Creyos Health enables rehab centers to measure cognitive functioning directly, assisting decisions about the direction of treatment, the risk of relapse, and the need for post-treatment follow up.

Insightful Patient Reports in Less Than 15 Minutes

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

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

Stay on top of important trends in your patient’s cognition over time, from baseline to treatment to aftercare programs.

Review your patients' percentile rank relative to others of the same age group (ages 6+) and gender using our proprietary normative database, made up of more than 85,000 individuals.

Validity and meaningful change indicators help interpret results and explain them to your patient.

Link results with subjective patient difficulties to turn “brain fog” into specific deficits that can be discussed and measured.

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Help Patients With a Low-Pressure, Gamified, and Engaging Assessment Experience

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

Provide guidance during inpatient rehab, or 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 want.

Easily Incorporate Self-Report Substance Abuse Scales and Mental Health Assessments

Creyos Health includes the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) and Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST-10) for directly assessing the presence and severity of substance abuse issues.

In addition, patients suffering from mental illness are at a higher risk for substance abuse, and mental illness is yet another factor in cognitive deficits. Creyos Health offers built-in mental health assessments, such as the PHQ-9 for depression, the GAD-7 for anxiety, and the ASRS for ADHD.

Administer cognitive assessments and questionnaires of your choosing in one click, then view integrated results. Modernize your existing screening and assessment tools with remote web-based testing that helps identify the need for intervention and measure the impacts of rehab and other treatments.

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

Cloud-based and 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 Creyos Health into your practice and make the most of its powerful features.

Resources

Six Reasons Why Telemedicine is Here to Stay

Reimbursement Guide

Brain Regions Associated With Creyos Tasks

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Frequently Asked Questions

Can Creyos Health diagnose addiction severity or psychiatric disorders?

Creyos Health's cognitive task battery 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, and built-in self-report questionnaires can assist in determining mental health disorder symptoms with automated scoring that highlights established cutoff scores. However, Creyos Health should be used in conjunction with other information and clinical judgement to reach conclusions regarding an individual’s health. Ultimately, Creyos Health does not replace the judgement of a qualified provider.

Can patients take Creyos Health assessments multiple times?

Creyos 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 specialists use Creyos Health to assess patients regularly over the course of multiple months or years.

Who are patients being compared to in percentile scores?

Each score on the Creyos 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. Participants in the database were not screened for any particular disorders, so it is designed to be representative of the entire population—not only healthy control participants.

Which Creyos Health tasks are most closely related with addiction?

Cognition is central to drug addiction, overall. Studies have suggested that cognition predicts treatment adherence—for example, poor reward-based decision making is linked with relapse, and executive function is in many ways the opposite of the impulsivity that can define addiction. The brain regions that underlie addiction overlap with those that support a variety of cognitive functions, and neurocognitive rehabilitation is often suggested as part of addiction treatment. That said, the specific tasks related with addiction and relapse depend on the specific type of addiction, the stage the patient is in, and factors pertaining to a single individual. Creyos generally recommends a broad assessment that covers all areas of executive function, before narrowing down testing to fit a specific patient’s needs.

Are the Creyos Health tasks valid and reliable?

Overall, Creyos Health has psychometric properties that meet or exceed the standards set by the traditional scales and tools that addiction specialists are used to. Various types of validity have been established through decades of scientific research and clinical usage, and the Creyos 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), and features such as customizable email instructions and interactive tutorials further increase reliability in the healthcare context supported by Creyos Health.

Can Creyos Health assessments be sent by email as part of a telehealth plan?

Creyos 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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