Telehealth cochlear implant programming in Chile yields outcomes comparable to in-person clinical care

Key Points

• This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of remote cochlear implant programming compared to in-person methods.
• Conducted a comparative analysis of telehealth and in-person programming for cochlear implants.
• Measured speech recognition results from both remote and in-person programming sessions.
• Assessed participant satisfaction with the remote programming experience.
• Speech recognition outcomes were comparable between remote and in-person programming.
• Participants reported similar levels of communication ease and quality regardless of the programming method.
• The remote programming method was found to be useful and acceptable to participants.