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An Exploration Of Audiologists' Readiness To Adopt Connected Hearing Healthcare For Remote Hearing Aid Fitting, Luisa Natalia Perez Velez
An Exploration Of Audiologists' Readiness To Adopt Connected Hearing Healthcare For Remote Hearing Aid Fitting, Luisa Natalia Perez Velez
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Background: Globally, the increasing prevalence of hearing loss and need for improved access to hearing healthcare services, highlights the growing need for alternative service delivery models. A Connected Health model emerges as a solution for this need, focusing on the use of telecommunication technologies. This model, extended to audiology, can help to better ‘connect’ a patient to their own care process and to their provider during audiological diagnostics, treatment, and management services, at a distance and in an effective and timely manner. The strong capacity for and underutilization of Connected Audiology within current aural (re)habilitation service models have led to …