Interactive Audio as an Emerging, Disruptive Technology in Healthcare
The voice-user interface device from Amazon calledAlexa is now HIPAA compliant (see:Amazon Alexa Now HIPAA Compliant; Watch for the Next Steps). This means that we are on the verge of a wide variety of new voice-user interface (VUI) apps relating to healthcare, some of which were detailed in a recent article (see:Voice Technology: A Disruptive Force in Healthcare). Below is an excerpt from the article:Last month, an Amazon spokesperson told a reporter that the company frequently receives positive feedback from “aging-in-place” customers who use Alexa’s smart-home features as an alternative to going up and down ...
Source: Lab Soft News - April 10, 2019 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Healthcare Delivery Healthcare Information Technology Healthcare Innovations Medical Consumerism Point-of-Care Testing Preventive Medicine Test Kits and Home Testing Source Type: blogs
From Human To Cyborg: Are You Willing To Augment Your Body?
What if you could have a heat-map vision to search
through an abandoned terrain? What if you could filter out unpleasant odors of
urban decay every now and then? Can you imagine hearing ultrasounds better than
bats? And what about lifting 20 tons or having a third, bionic arm? With the
rapid advancement of technologies, the future of healthcare might not just be
about being healthy, but even augmenting our bodies and “upgrading” ourselves.
Where would you draw the line between being a human and a cyborg?
Superhuman traits in sight: perceiving colors as sounds
The
wish for a perfect human body with enhanced capabi...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 30, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Biotechnology Cyborgization Health Sensors & Trackers artificial brain-computer interface digital tattoo exoskeleton future Healthcare implant Innovation Medicine Source Type: blogs
How to Stop Lying to Ourselves: A Call for Self-Awareness
You're reading How to Stop Lying to Ourselves: A Call for Self-Awareness, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.
Finding a sincere person is difficult. We are not always ready to share our innermost feelings and do not show a lot of emotions. People have a right for little secrets, but problems begin when we try to deceive ourselves. One's mind and heart conflict with one another, and harmony disappears.
Negative emotions and lying to oneself are harmful to one's health.
Every person has self-talk from time to ...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - March 15, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: melisamarzett Tags: psychology self improvement lying pickthebrain truth Source Type: blogs
Beyond Facilitating Communication: The Value of Designated Interpreters
A few months ago, my sign language interpreter tapped me on the shoulder. “Your colleague is giving a newcomer a tour. They’re talking about where she can find tea in the building.” Tea! Glorious Earl Greys and calming fruit herbals! I rose to say hello and, not only did I learn about an important (and free) source of caffeine, but I also bonded with my colleagues.
As a physician with hearing loss, I firmly believe in the designated interpreter (DI) model described by Wyatte Hall and colleagues in their recent Academic Medicine article. Dr. Hall and I both would be lesser clinicians without our DIs, not because th...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - March 12, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Trainee Perspective deaf physicians designated interpreter health care teams inclusion medical education Source Type: blogs
Language Matters: You Are Not an Illness
A person should not be defined by an illness or condition.
Often in popular media or casual conversation, people speak about the subject of a news story or an acquaintance by saying, “he is bipolar”, “schizophrenic”, or “mentally ill.” No one says, “She is cancer,” “she is a heart condition,” or “she is lupus.” Aside from a few very select common physical illnesses, such as diabetes where people find community and comfort in sharing their diagnosis, we would never consider insulting a person by simply identifying them by the disease which they have endured o...
Source: World of Psychology - February 28, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Colleen Donnelly Tags: General Mental Health and Wellness Minding the Media Stigma Crisis Counseling destigmatization discrimination Labels neurodivergent Stereotypes Validation Source Type: blogs
Looking Back, Looking Ahead to Transition from Clinic to Academia
There are four infamous words that parents, including me, say to children: “Back in my day … (fill in the blank).” What follows this phrase is usually something like, “I used to walk to school uphill, both ways, barefoot, in the snow.” No matter the context, “Back in my day” serves as a bridge linking the past to the present.
In the summer of 2018—just a little more than 16 years since I had received my undergraduate degree from Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore—I started a new job as a clinical assistant professor several miles north of my alma mater at Towson University. Prior to this appointme...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - February 27, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: David Alexander Tags: Academia & Research Audiology Health Care Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology educational audiologist Source Type: blogs
An Administrator —and Former SLP—Shares His Perspective on the LA Teachers’ Strike
Editor’s note: We are publishing this post after the conclusion of the LA teachers’ strike in order to share insights for members about the continuing wave of strikes, such as the current one in Denver.
As an administrator in the Speech and Language Program in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), I belong to the Associated Administrators of Los Angeles, the union representing administrators. I’m not a member of the union on strike—United Teachers of Los Angeles—so my role during the strike was to provide instruction and supervisory support to those students who reported to school during th...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - February 13, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Kyle Epps Tags: Advocacy Audiology News Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology audiologist educational audiologist Source Type: blogs
Google ’s Live Transcribe and Sound Amplifier to Make Communications Easier for Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Deaf people and others who have trouble hearing are constantly finding themselves in situations in which communicating with other fellow humans is a challenge. Gesturing and writing things down on paper is simple, but slow and frustrating. Google, a part of Alphabet, is hoping to change that with a couple new tools that will be part of its Android operating system.
Live Transcribe is, as the name implies, a real-time transcription app that convert’s the voice of a person you’re speaking to into text. It was developed with the help of Gallaudet University, a school for the deaf and hard of hearing. The app work...
Source: Medgadget - February 7, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Geriatrics Medicine Net News Rehab Source Type: blogs
4 things everyone needs to know about measles
We are in the midst of a measles outbreak here in the US, with cases being reported in New York City, New York state, and Washington state. In 2018, preliminary numbers indicate that there were 372 cases of measles — more than triple the 120 cases in all of 2017 — and already 79 cases in the first month of 2019 alone. Here are four things that everyone needs to know about measles.
Measles is highly contagious
This is a point that can’t be stressed enough. A full 90% of unvaccinated people exposed to the virus will catch it. And if you think that just staying away from sick people will do the trick, think again. Not o...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - February 5, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Children's Health Infectious diseases Parenting Vaccines Source Type: blogs
Congress Isn ’t Only Branch Enabling Trump’s Emergency Threats
As President Trump delivered aweekend salvo in the ongoing shutdown battle, White House aidesreminded reporters that the president remains convinced of his “legal authority to declare a national emergency at the border, which could allow him to redirect Pentagon funding to a build a border wall.” The flacks’ messaging was clear: If congressional Democrats turn a deaf ear to Trump’s latest proposal, then the president retains recourse to his eme rgency powers.In a thoughtful post earlier this month, my colleague Gene Healyexplained that Trump ’s threats are far from idle, and that the Congress bears much of the bl...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 24, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: William Yeatman Source Type: blogs
The future of music is for everyone —even the deaf
How Avnet helped an award-winning tech incubator take one of the most complex wearables from “possibly” to “possible”
For Mick Ebeling, CEO of Not Impossible Labs, the fact that the deaf can’t experience music in the same way as the hearing seemed absurd. While “hearing” music does involve the different parts of the ear, there are many other parts of the brain that play into our perception of music. People who are deaf still take in the sounds of music, just in a different format: as vibrations.
To feel the vibrations of music, the deaf can stand close to speakers, hold balloons or go ...
Source: Medgadget - January 10, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Avnet Tags: Sponsored Content Source Type: blogs
Cochlear implants for children and adults with severe to profound deafness (part review of TA166)
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence - Hundreds more people with severe to profound deafness are expected to be eligible for cochlear implants each year, due to this updated NICE guidance. The update comes after a review of the definition of severe to profound deafness which is used to identify if a cochlear implant might be appropriate.UpdatePress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 8, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: New technologies Source Type: blogs
TYLENOL ® Recognizes and Supports Caregivers with #HowWeCare
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Part of the caregiving experience seems to be a deep need for caregivers to share their stories. This desire stems from wanting others to know about the joys and sorrows of caregiving as well as an ongoing need to help others.
TYLENOL® recognizes this and wants to support caregivers not only during National Family Caregivers Month but afterward by providing, through their #HowWeCare campaign, a forum for caregivers to share their stories with larger audiences than they might otherwise have the opportunity to reach.
The company recognizes that providing care for a loved one with a health condition is...
Source: Minding Our Elders - November 30, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Thanksgiving: The Difficult Choices Caregivers Must Make During the Holidays
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To my loyal readers, thank you. I am deeply grateful to you for your loyalty. Whether you've been drawn to my writing by recent events or you've been following me for years, you are valuable to me. This little piece is something that I often run on Thanksgiving because it seems to illustrate to many what holidays are often like for caregivers. Blessings on this day of thanks. Carol
I’ve been thinking of our family’s past Thanksgivings. For a number of years, the grandparents on both sides were relatively healthy, and we’d have them over for Thanksgiving. They could climb the steps – sometim...
Source: Minding Our Elders - November 22, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Spotlight on Special Interest Group 9, Hearing and Hearing Disorders in Childhood
If you’re interested in joining an active community of clinicians, educators, researchers, and students collaborating to enhance communication outcomes of children who are deaf and hard of hearing or who have other auditory/vestibular-related disorders, then SIG 9 is for you. Read on for more from James Mahshie.
When did you join your SIG—and what made you want to join?
SIG 9 was an obvious way to learn more about hearing and hearing loss in children, particularly because my research focuses on perception and production abilities of children with cochlear implants. I joined SIG 9 in 2012 and decided to run for the ...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - November 21, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: James Mahshie Tags: Academia & Research Audiology Health Care Private Practice Schools Slider audiologist Cochlear Implants communication sciences and disorders hearing health care hearing loss hearing loss treatment Source Type: blogs
