18th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 3-5, 2019 • Chicago, IL
3/05/2019 | 2:15 PM - 2:45 PM | Navigating the EHDI Process: Developing a Smartphone Application for Parents | International F
Navigating the EHDI Process: Developing a Smartphone Application for Parents
For many parents of infants who fail an initial hearing screen, navigating the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention processes of re-screening, diagnosis, and early intervention can be complicated and confusing. Each step may present challenges that can result in loss to follow-up for infants needing additional audiology testing and/or intervention services. The CDC and the EHDI Pediatric Audiology Links to Services (EHDI-PALS) committee collaborated on the development of a smartphone application to guide parents in navigating the entire EHDI process. The application, EHDI-PALS smartphone app, assists families in successfully navigating the EHDI process in a timely manner. The application has been available since May 2018. In this presentation, we will 1) summarize the design; 2) report findings from parents who have used the application during a pilot conducted in four hospitals; and 3) discuss how interested parents can access the application.
- Audience will know the title of the app and how to download the app
- Audience will know the follow up algorithm designed into the app
- Audience will learn other features embedded in the app
Presentation:
18878_10312WinnieChung.pdf
Handouts:
Handout is not Available
Transcripts:
18878_10312WinnieChung.rtf
Presenters/Authors
Winnie Chung
(), Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, wchung@cdc.gov;
Winnie Chung, Au.D, a Health Scientist with CDC, is the subject matter expert with the Early Hearing Detection & Intervention (EHDI) team. Winnie Chung has been an audiology provider in various clinical setting from 1990 to 2009. She began her involvement in EHDI in 2001 providing outpatient hearing screening and diagnostic for newborns at Kaiser Permanente San Francisco and Oakland. From 2004 to 2009, besides coordinating Rhode Island state newborn hearing screening program, she also provided audiological services in the tertiary neonatal intensive care unit and managed the audiology outpatient clinic at Woman & Infants' Hospital. She joined CDC as a health scientist in April of 2009 providing technical assistance to state EHDI programs and investigating public health related issues for the CDC-EHDI team.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.
Han Mason
(), Johns Hopkins University, hanmason@gmail.com;
Han Mason is a full-time student interested in applying computer technology to enhancing the lives of individuals with disabilities. He has previously presented on a smartphone app he developed examining child developmental growth trajectories at the 5th Congress of the European Acadamy of Paediatric Societies in Barcelona, Spain. This current presentation is based on his latest work with the EHDI-PALS advisory group.
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Sarah Stone
(), MA Dept. of Public Health, sarah.stone@state.ma.us;
Sarah Stone is the Director of the Massachusetts Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Program. She has a hearing loss and has been with the program for over 20 years. She has developed programming for families, including social and educational events. She is a member of the state's Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Advisory Committee.
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Chyann Mealy
(), Virginia Department of Health, chyann.mealy@vdh.virginia.gov;
After graduating from James Madison University in May 2017, Chyann Mealy began her public health career early by serving overseas as a Public Health Outreach worker conducting home visits and providing prenatal/ nutrition education to mothers, adolescents, and children in the Effutu Senya region of Ghana. Chyann then returned to the States where she soon began her current position as a Follow-Up Specialist with the Virginia EHDI program in October 2017. Chyann hopes to continue working in public health to decrease disparities and increase equity and positive health outcomes for all mothers, infants, and children.
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Vicki Hunting
(), Hands & Voices, vicki@handsandvoices.org;
Vicki Hunting is mom to two adult daughters; the youngest a young adult who is deaf/hard of hearing. She has worked in project management, process reengineering and quality/process improvement and evaluation for over 20 years with experience. Ms. Hunting has experience using the Model for Improvement using Plan-Do-Study-Act(PDSA) cycles as a framework for QI projects. This experience also includes; testing, implementing and spreading changes as well as using data for improvement, and developing and interpreting run charts and control charts. In her current staff position as Director of Data and Evaluation at Hands & Voices Headquarters Ms. Hunting works to ensure data and evaluation functions and practices of the organization are developed and monitored, works on establishing efficient, accurate, and timely data tracking to ensure data quality, integrity, reliability and validity. Vicki has been involved in the H&V in Iowa since it began in 2004.
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Robert Fifer
(), University of Miami, rfifer@med.miami.edu;
Robert C. Fifer, is the Director of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology at the Mailman Center for Child Development, University of Miami School of Medicine. He received his B.S. from the University of Nebraska in Speech-Language Pathology with a minor in Deaf Education. His M.A. is from Central Michigan University in Audiology, and his Ph.D. is from Baylor College of Medicine in Audiology and Bioacoustics. Dr. Fifer’s clinical and research interests include auditory evoked potentials, central auditory processing, early detection of hearing loss in children, and auditory anatomy and physiology. He is a Past-President of the Florida Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists, a member of ASHA’s Health Care Economics Committee, and the ASHA representative to the American Medical Association’s Health Care Professions Advisory Committee for the Relative Value Utilization Committee in addition to being ASHA’s representative to the AMA’s Practice Expense Advisory Committee.
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Craig Mason
(), University of Maine, Craig_Mason@umit.maine.edu;
Craig Mason is the associate professor at university of Maine, and he is a consultant of the EHDI team, Centers for Disease control and Prevention
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