These evidence-based clinical recommendations emphasizing holistic care provide actionable ways for hearing care professionals to address the complex relationship between hearing and cognition in their practices.
Knowing exactly how your patient's feel about their experience is vital to providing quality, lasting hearing care.
The text is divided into four clear sections to cover everything from the physics of sound to the anatomy and physiology of the auditory pathway and beyond.
Plural Publishing announced the release of “Counseling in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology: Reconstructing Personal Narratives, Second Edition,” a book that “addresses this common concern of students and practitioners by illustrating how to integrate the concept of counseling into clinical practice.”
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The RGCP toolkit—sponsored by BIHIMA—was created to support GPs to consult effectively with deaf patients and provide training and support around deafness and hearing loss in primary care.
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ClEAR, a company that develops products for individuals with hearing loss, announced the launch of its “category-defining digital therapeutic for hearing loss that enables organizations to offer comprehensive, evidence-based hearing healthcare to their populations,” called Amptify.
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Compatible with Starkey’s REM Target Match tool, the Inventis Trumpet is “capable of performing quick and accurate in-situ measures thanks to its small and lightweight probes and its built-in amplified speaker,” according to the company’s announcement.
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The taskforce offered two important tips: (1) How to identify a patient who needs urgent evaluation, expedited evaluation, or one who could wait to be seen in clinic at a later date; and (2) How to evaluate a patient with dizziness using the virtual platform of telemedicine.
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The study reported several boons for telehealth patients, including reductions in stress, missed work, the number of hospital visits, travel time, and exposure to pathogens, in addition to improving access to care with the option for out-of-state consultations.
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These foundational modifications were designed to make E/M office visit coding and documentation simpler and more flexible, according to the AMA. The changes to CPT codes ranging from 99201-99215 are proposed for adoption by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on January 1, 2021.
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The findings reveal many hearing loss cases remain undiagnosed in primary care, since people very often cannot recognize their hearing has been affected, and highlight gaps in the continuity of hearing care pathways.
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The webinar will help inspire you to look at the hearing screening process in a positive light by providing information about how important the screening is to the future of a child with hearing loss; explain the methods used to perform the screening so you have a good understanding of the techniques you are using; and give practical recommendations for obtaining high-quality hearing screening results in the shortest possible time.
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The article cites hurdles such as small icons, difficult-to-read typefaces, and inadequate captioning that hinder usage by those who may need the technologies the most, given their increased susceptibility to COVID-19.
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The product is ideally suited to treating patients with impacted ear wax or excessive wax buildup, an increasing likelihood as patients practice months of stay-at-home behavior in response to the current pandemic, the companies say.
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In an article on “Forbes,” professor and journalist Bruce Y. Lee reviews the evidence currently available regarding the link between COVID-19 and hearing loss.
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Warning that the results have “significant implications for otolaryngology procedures,” the authors of the study recommend personal protective equipment (PPE) such as eye protection and N95 masks be worn by health care practitioners performing ear surgery.
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MedRx’s otoscope software has many features that allow users to record videos, take images, print custom reports, and integrate with several office management systems. The software can display live video feeds to show patients their eardrum.
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Every crisis has a silver lining and one of the clear front-runners during the COVID-19 pandemic is the increased use of virtual healthcare visits, says author Archelle Georgiou, MD. Telehealth for getting medical care over the Internet has been available for more than 20 years, but use of the technology was low until the pandemic severely restricted providers and patients from having face-to-face visits.
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