Alessia Paglialonga|Annette Cleveland Nielsen|Elisabeth Ingo|Caitlin Barr|Ariane Laplante-Lévesque
eHealth and the hearing aid adult patient journey: a state-of-the-art review
Institute of Electronics, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering|National Research Council|Oticon Medical (Denmark)|Linköping University|University of Melbourne|Linköping University
number variety ehealth services adults older adults use hearing aids growing rapidly area holds promise increase costefficiency enable better access care improve patient outcomes satisfaction despite increasing interest field uptodate picture recent research area ehealth adults lacking stateoftheart review assessed literature past decade ehealth use ha adult patient journey systematic searches conducted cinahl pubmed scopus web science total 34 peerreviewed empirical records identified searches reference lists searched records records characterized based ehealth platform ie offline internetbased mobilebased service ie education information screening assessment hearing rehabilitation general teleaudiology phase patient journey ie prefitting fitting postfitting review highlighted growing interest field revealed increasing trend search period 2 records 20092010 17 records 20152016 internetbased platforms frequently used present half included records stable trend period onethird records introduced services offline platforms whereas mobilebased platforms used 6 34 records suggesting clinical uptake mobile services still limited compared mature offline internetbased platforms ehealth services observed related areas education information 425 hearing rehabilitation 404 whereas 107 related screening assessment 64 general teleaudiology services many services covered different phases patient journey especially fitting postfitting phases overall review showed field ehealth context ha rehabilitation adults grown recent past research still needed increase uptake efficacy ehealth clinical practice especially terms technology developments technical clinical validation optimization strategies service delivery