Mobile-cloud platform for raising hearing loss awareness

According to W.H.O., 360 million people worldwide have disabling hearing loss [1]. However, a number of patients are afraid to consider hearing loss a problem and subsequently are afraid to seek medical help for the hearing loss. This may potentially lead hearing impaired individuals to a further level of disability and handicap. [2] In the concepts of raising hearing loss awareness, a mobile platform is presented, allowing individuals at risk to conduct a day-to-day hearing test. The data gathered from these tests are uploaded to a cloud database, where health care professionals, e.g. audiologists and ENT clinicians, have access and assess the data provided by users in order to inform them about their condition and raise their awareness levels by providing information addressed to each individual separately.

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