Instrumentation System Upgrade Supports Mobile Personalized Healthcare Delivery

Author

Ellingson, Roger M. ; Helt, Wendy J. ; Helt, Patrick V. ; Fausti, Stephen A.

Author_Institution

Nat. Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Res., Portland, OR

fYear

2006

fDate

Aug. 30 2006-Sept. 3 2006

Firstpage

6233

Lastpage

6236

Abstract

Clinicians and patients need mobile tools to detect ototoxic change early and prevent hearing loss. We report on the development of an upgrade of our existing desktop-based clinical-audiological instrumentation into a mobile instrument platform which efficiently supports personalized ototoxicity monitoring on the hospital wards as well as clinic by a trained clinician. Our new wireless-enabled system also serves as the instrumentation platform for the next phase of our work which is remote healthcare delivery with patient-guided at-home ototoxicity monitoring using an evidence-based individualized SRO protocol

Keywords

biomedical telemetry; drugs; ear; health care; hearing; telemedicine; toxicology; SRO protocol; hearing loss prevention; home ototoxicity monitoring; hospital wards; mobile instrumentation system; mobile personalized healthcare delivery; mobile tools; ototoxic change detection; personalized ototoxicity monitoring; remote healthcare delivery; wireless-enabled system; Auditory system; Biomedical monitoring; Deafness; Frequency; Instruments; Medical services; Patient monitoring; Protocols; Remote monitoring; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2006. EMBS '06. 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

New York, NY

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0032-5

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2006.259474

Filename

4463233