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10/25/2019  |   12:30 PM - 5:00 PM   |  Ventana Ballroom B

Digital Health (Ingrid McBride, et al.)
Digital Health: implementing telehealth and mHealth

Digital health is becoming more mainstream across health care and its scope includes the use of telehealth and mobile health (mHealth). According to the FDA, digital health can improve access, reduce inefficiencies, reduce costs, increase quality and make medicine more personalized. Telehealth is a system of delivering health care in which the provider and patient are separated by distance. Tele-audiology is the utilization of telehealth to provide audiologic services and may include the full scope of audiologic practice. It is well known that there is a shortage of hearing care professionals in the USA and around the world, that restricts access to hearing health care. Developing countries and rural and/or remote areas may have no audiologists or trained hearing health care providers. Transportation, travel distance, geographical barriers, and cost may prevent many individuals from seeking and receiving hearing health care. Connecting developing countries and rural areas to audiology services in developed countries and urban areas can be done using telehealth and has the potential to bridge the gap between the demand for care and the available supply as well as to provide cost-effective care. mHealth is a specific type of telehealth that uses mobile devices for self-care. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) defines mHealth as “the use of mobile and wireless devices (e.g. smartphones and tablets) to improve health outcomes, health care services, and health research. Applications include smartphone-based hearing screening, aural rehabilitation, tinnitus management, and automated diagnostic testing, among others. This workshop will explore emerging technologies and the application of digital health for global hearing health care, but is not limited to tele-audiology. Attendees will gain practical information needed to implement telehealth and mHealth. Experts in telehealth and mHealth will describe telehealth and mHealth projects underway across the globe via lectures followed by a question and answer session. Technology options currently available to implement telehealth and mHealth screening and diagnostic services will be demonstrated with opportunities for hands-on interaction.

• Describe the differences between telehealth and mHealth
• Identify advantages and disadvantages of telehealth and mHealth.
• Describe technology options to implement both telehealth and mHealth

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Ingrid McBride (Primary Presenter), Arizona State University, ingrid.mcbride@outlook.com;
Dr. McBride is a Clinical Professor of Audiology at Arizona State University. She specializes in amplification technology, including hearing aids, cochlear implants, and hearing assistive technology. Dr. McBride is dedicated to improving the access to audiologic services to underserved populations. Dr. McBride has extensive experience in providing humanitarian services on the ground in Malawi Africa and on site as well as via tele-audiology San Felipe Mexico.

ASHA DISCLOSURE: Financial - No relevant financial relationship exists. Nonfinancial - No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.

AAA DISCLOSURE: Financial - No relevant financial relationship exists.

Robert Margolis (Co-Presenter), Audiology Incorporated, rhmargo001@gmail.com;
Robert Margolis is Emeritus Professor at the University of Minnesota, Adjunct Professor at Arizona State University, and President of Audiology Incorporated. His research career has focused on diagnostic audiology, most recently on development and validation of automated hearing tests. He has participated in audiology service projects in Chile, India, and Mexico.

ASHA DISCLOSURE: Financial - Receives Intellectual property rights,Royalty options or other ownership interest,Hold patent on equipment for Consulting from Grason Stadler Inc..   Receives Intellectual property rights,Royalty options or other ownership interest for Consulting from Grason Stadler Inc..   Nonfinancial - No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.

AAA DISCLOSURE: Financial - Receives support from Grason Stadler, Inc..