BASLP 6th Semester Notes  » Paper 4: Audiology in Practice

Unit 5: Scope and Practice of Tele Audiology

• Introduction to tele-health: definition, history of tele-health
• Terminologies-tele-health, tele medicine, tele practice
• Connectivity: internet, satellite, mobile data
• Methods of tele-practice-store and forward and real time
• Ethics and Regulations for tele-audiology
• Requirements/Technology for tele- audiology: Web based platforms, Video conferencing, infrastructure
• Manpower at remote end and audiologist end, training assistants for tele-audiology
• Audiological screening using tele-technology : new born hearing screening, school screening, community screening, counselling
• Diagnostic audiological services using tele-technology : video otoscopy, pure tone audiometry, speech audiometry, oto acoustic emission, tympanometry, auditory brainstem response