Enhancing Person-Centered Care Through the Use of Technology, presented in partnership with the National Acoustic Laboratories
Course: #40022Level: Advanced 2 Hours 134 Reviews
Technology is changing rapidly, and it can be challenging to know when and how it can be integrated into clinical care. This series of presentations will explore use cases where technology can be applied to improve client outcomes in audiological practice.
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Learning Outcomes
- After this course, participants will be able to discuss current and emerging technologies for audio broadcasting and streaming relevant to users of hearing devices and the potential applications and benefits of those technologies to hearing-impaired persons.
- After this course, participants will be able to to be able to identify key barriers and facilitators to adopting health apps in audiological practice, compare the perspectives of adults with hearing loss and hearing care professionals, and explain how to apply strategies to integrate digital health tools effectively into clinical workflows to enhance patient-centered care.
- After this course, participants will be able to describe the new NAL goal-setting framework and how it can be used to enhance goal setting discussions in clinical practice.
Course created on October 30, 2024
Agenda
| 0-5 Minutes | Introduction |
| 5-30 Minutes | The Future of Audio Broadcast and Streaming Technologies in Audiology |
| 30-85 Minutes | Navigating the Digital Frontier: Barriers and Facilitators to App Use in Audiology |
| 85-110 Minutes | Enhancing Goal Setting in the Clinical Environment: Insights from the use of the Client-Oriented Scale of Improvement (COSI) |
| 110-120 Minutes | Summary |
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134 ReviewsPresented By
Pádraig Kitterick
PhD
Pádraig Kitterick is the Head of Audiological Sciences at the National Acoustic Laboratories, Sydney Australia and leads NAL's adult hearing loss research portfolio. Padraig recently joined NAL from his previous role as Head of Hearing Sciences at the University of Nottingham, UK where he conducted translational research on severe-profound hearing loss including cochlear implantation. Pádraig gained his PhD in Psychology by examining how the natural ageing process may contribute to listening difficulties in multi-talker environments. He held a post-doctoral research fellowship in the Department of Psychology in the University of York, carrying out research on spatial listening in normally-hearing and hearing-impaired populations, including users of hearing aids and cochlear implants. His current research focusses on the evaluation of hearing health technologies and developing valid diagnostic and outcome assessment tools.
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Bec Bennett
PhD
Dr. Bec Bennett is a Senior Research Audiologist at the National Acoustic Laboratories, and holds a Senior Adjunct role with the Ear Science Institute Australia and Curtin University. Her research focuses on adult audiological rehabilitation, the social and emotional impacts of hearing loss, and tele-audiology service delivery. She is a 2022 NHMRC Investigator Fellow and a Director on the Board of Audiology Australia.
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Taegan Young
MClinAud
Since joining NAL as a Research Audiologist in 2014, Taegan has worked on various projects with adults and children in areas including auditory processing disorders, hearing assessment, hearing aid fitting, and audiological clinical practice.
She has developed a keen interest in behavioral insights. She uses these skills to shape and enhance research at NAL and to offer innovative research strategies to our research partners.
Taegan’s recent work has focused on implementing Person-Centered Care into clinical practice, with a particular focus on clinical goal setting.
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Financial: Padraig Kitterick is employed by NAL. Padraig oversees a research portfolio that includes projects funded by commercial entities, including the manufacturers of hearing devices. Non-financial: Padraig Kitterick has no relevant non-financial relationships to disclose.
Financial: Taegan Young is employed by NAL. Non-financial: Taegan Young has no relevant non-financial relationships to disclose.
In lieu of honorarium, a donation has been made to the NAL student internship program.
Sponsor Disclosure: This course is presented by the National Acoustics Laboratories in partnership with AudiologyOnline.
Content Disclosure: This learning event does not focus exclusively on any specific product or service.
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