SOME OF OUR CUSTOMERS IN OCCUPATIONAL HEALTHCARE
How are digital cognitive tests used in occupational health care?
Monika Söderlund, licensed psychologist and specialist in occupational psychology, talks about why it is important to highlight cognition in occupational health care.
Return to work
Measures of cognitive ability can facilitate work adaptation in collaboration with the employer.
The Rehabilitation Process
A mapping of how cognition is affected facilitates decisions about appropriate measures.
Medical certificate
In cases of stress,
fatigue, depression or pain.
Work Ability Assessments
Because cognitive function affects work ability.
Health Checkups
Regular testing allows for early detection of cognitive changes and abnormalities.
The value for healthcare professionals
Compared to analog cognitive testing, Mindmore can save operations over two hours per test session.
Objective survey findings facilitate communication with employees, employers and external parties such as the Swedish Social Insurance Agency.
The cognitive profile is valuable for understanding the employee's conditions at work, for example when adapting to work. This will be a support to the occupational health care customers in fulfilling their rehabilitation responsibility.
Recommended in the Swedish National Institute of Mental Health's guidelines for cognitive impairment and by the health and medical services' knowledge management
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Mindmore provides a CE marked medical device class I, according to MDD.
A patient case:
Testing with Mindmore's screening battery provided unexpected information that was sufficient to substantiate a referral."
A customer in their 50s applies to occupational health care for stress-related problems. Both me and the doctor judge that it is about fatigue - the anamnesis is correct and all criteria are met. Treatment begins, with a psychologist call and full-time sick leave.
The treatment seems to work well and the customer begins to feel better. Slow return to work begins.
But when the scope of work is stepped up, the customer quickly gets worse and no longer able to function at work.
That's when I decide to carry out a test with Mindmore's screening battery, to see if there may be something else behind the problem. The test result indicates dementia-specific deficiencies. For example, it shows low naming ability - something that should not be affected by fatigue syndrome.
I realize that we need to investigate this further and send a referral to primary care. Their investigation then results in an Alzheimer's diagnosis. It was surprising; Everything seemed at first to coincide with fatigue and Alzheimer's is uncommon at this age. The testing made it possible to find the underlying explanation for the patient's problem.