Editor's Perspective
April - May 2013
Editorial written by Stavros Hatzopoulos
We have dedicated a considerable time to the solution regarding the issue of the OAE FORUM. We have received numerous responses regarding the usefulness of a FORUM , considering that the majority of visitors can access the various communications channels of the Portal easily. A lot of users have suggested to eliminate the FORUM , due to the high levels of Spam, and to focus only on a communication between users and members of the OAE Portal. My personal opinion is that the FORUM provides a service, even when the user has resolved the issues he has been troubled with....
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April-September 2013: Pediatric Applications of Tele-Health technology and evoked otoacoustic emissions
Guest editorial Mark Krumm, Ph.D.
Telehealth, or telemedicine, is the provision of health care services using a telecommunications medium (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2005; Ricketts, 2000; Wootton, 2001). Specifically, telehealth indicates that practitioner services are provided to patients using an electronic medium such as a computer network, the telephone, satellite or two way radio (Mun & Turner, 1999; Stanberry, 2000).Telehealth services are used to serve people with limited healthcare access who typically live in rural or inner city communities. Applications have advanced substantially since the first telehealth services were explored. Also, it is likely that the most important telehealth advancements have occurred in the past decade...
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02/04/2013
We great pleasure we welcome to the sponsors of the OAE Portal the Institute of Physiology and Pathology in Warsaw, Poland. The Institute is a state of the art organization responsible for new methodologies in the area of Cochlear Implants and Neonatal / Children hearing screening. Within 2013 the staff of the Institute will generously contribute a number of white papers in the areas where they excel.
Read more22/01/2013
We have received a number of messages regarding the fact that some links in the OAE Portal do not appear to work. This is caused by the fact that NOT all the material has been transfered to the new platform. When we finish translocating a section, THEN we control the links and we update them accordingly. Everything should be in order by the end of March 2013 , mid-April the latest.
Read more14/01/2013
The Recent Articles category was updated with the latest 100 articles ( Recent Articles: 2013, Volume 1) of 2012-2013.
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The latest news, prior to the forthcoming festivities break: A good percentage of the Portal pages is already on-line, but as it is mentioned in the December 2012 Editorial, a considerable amount of time is spent for revision purposes not only in terms of text but in terms of graphics as well. For the period till the end of December please expect some formatting issues .. since we are setting things right !!! We have a good visualization of the Portal on Mobile devices (landscape mode on phones of course, both modes for tablets). Due to time restrictions we have decided to update the PowerPoint...
Read more08/12/2012
We can report that the new Portal implementation has entered in stage Beta 3. The January 2013 deadline is still valid but we are considering publishing a part of the material and updating the site gradually.
Read more14/11/2012
The WordPress designing phase is on -time and most probably the platform model should be ready by the end of this month. The Question is : Should we post the available material as soon as possible, or should we wait for the whole site to be translated into the new medium ? Here we would appreciate your feedback, so please if you want to contribute to our decision process, send us a message or post something in the Forum.
Read more01/10/2012
The program for the face-lifting of the site is on schedule but we are facing delays with material related to our sponsors, therefore a realistic date for the "revamped" material should be in early January 2013. If you have a COMMENT to make on something you would like to see in the new site please tell us , or leave a message in the FORUM area.
Read more30/09/2012
There is an announcement for the International Conference on Neonatal Screening, thic coming November : The invitation text goes like this : In Europe, approximately 5 million newborns are screened yearly based on the drawing of a drop of blood from an infant's heel or from a dorsal hand vein. European policies around newborn screening are challenges by various policy controversies, including questions to what degree newborn screening panels should be expanded, to what degree informed consent of parents should be obtained, how carrier status results should managed, and how storage and research use should be dealt with. Continuing on...
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