Assessment services
What you can order
Each assessment is a product with its own questions, records, and report. Pick the assessment and the workflow changes to match.
14 assessment services
Assessments with IMECore pages
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Independent Medical Examination
An independent physician examines the person, reviews the records, and answers the referral's questions in a signed report. Insurers, employers, and law firms order one when the treatment notes alone cannot settle diagnosis, causation, or work capacity.
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Functional Capacity Evaluation
A clinician works through a standardized set of physical tasks — lifting, carrying, sitting, standing, reaching — and reports what the person can do against the demands of their job. In Ontario the same assessment is called a Functional Abilities Evaluation (FAE). Employers and insurers order it for return-to-work and disability decisions.
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Medical File Review
A physician or psychologist answers the referral's questions from the records alone, with no examinee appointment. Insurers and counsel order one when the file is complete and the question is narrow, or when an examination cannot be booked in time. It cannot speak to current presentation the way an examination can.
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Psychological Assessment
A psychologist interviews the examinee, runs standardized testing where the questions need it, and reports diagnosis, function, and accommodation in a signed report. Insurers and employers order one when mood, behaviour, or cognition, not the body, is what keeps the person from working.
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Neuropsychological Assessment
A neuropsychologist measures attention, memory, processing speed, and executive function with a full test battery that includes effort testing, then maps the scores to work demands. Counsel and insurers order one after brain injury, or when cognitive complaints need objective measurement.
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Insurer Examination
An assessment an Ontario auto insurer arranges under Section 44 of the Statutory Accident Benefits Schedule (SABS), the provision that lets the insurer require a person claiming benefits to attend an examination. Adjusters order one when they need an opinion on diagnosis, causation, or whether benefits should continue.
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Catastrophic Impairment Assessment
A multidisciplinary assessment that tests whether an injured person meets the catastrophic impairment criteria in Ontario's Statutory Accident Benefits Schedule (SABS). Insurers and plaintiff counsel order one when the injuries may meet the threshold, usually through an Application for Determination of Catastrophic Impairment (the OCF-19 form).
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Physical Demands Analysis
A documented breakdown of what a job physically requires: lifting, carrying, postures, repetition, and environment, measured at the actual workstation. Employers order one before a capacity evaluation, during accommodation, or when the written job description no longer matches the work.
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Job Site Assessment
An assessor visits the workplace, watches the job being done, and records its physical and environmental demands. Employers order one, sometimes called a job demands analysis (JDA), when the written description is out of date or return-to-work needs real duties matched to measured capacity.
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Attendant Care Needs Assessment
An assessment of the personal care an injured person needs: supervision, hygiene, mobility, and meals, recorded on the Assessment of Attendant Care Needs (the Form 1 under Ontario's Statutory Accident Benefits Schedule). Accident-benefit adjusters order one to set the attendant care benefit.
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Psychiatric Assessment
A psychiatrist interviews the examinee, reviews the records, and reports diagnosis, causation, and work capacity from a medical perspective, including the role of medication. Insurers, employers, and counsel order one when the question is a mental disorder and what it means for function.
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Psycho-Vocational Assessment
A psychologist or vocational assessor tests aptitudes, reads the work history as skills, and reports what work the person can still do and what retraining it would take. Insurers and employers order one — often called an employability or labour-market re-entry (LMR) assessment — when the question is not the diagnosis but which jobs remain open.
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Future Care Cost Assessment
A clinician works from the records and the examination findings and prices the care the injury will need: treatment, attendant care, equipment, home changes, and medications, year by year. Counsel and insurers order one — often called a life care plan — when settlement or benefits turn on what the future costs.
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Ergonomic Assessment
An assessor observes the person at their workstation, measures reaches, postures, and repetition, and recommends changes to the setup, the schedule, or both. Employers order one when discomfort or restrictions persist after the equipment was already adjusted once.
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Refer a case, get back a signed report
Send the referral and the questions. A coordinator confirms the file and what it still needs, then IMECore coordinates the examination and delivers a signed report.
Remote options
Some assessments run by video
Psychiatric, psychological, and occupational medicine evaluations usually run remotely. Capacity evaluations and site visits do not.