'These products are the latest clinical care innovations to come out of Cochlear's extensive R&D program,' said Jan Janssen, Senior Vice President Design and Development at Cochlear. Ultimately, they will help us deliver the gift of sound to more people and make their long-term experience richer and more enjoyable.' I believe the future needs to be designed and our clinical care tools, like our other market leading products, are how we are designing it. 'It has always been a guiding principle for Cochlear. 'Technologic innovation is the turbo-charger of growth,' said Chris Roberts, CEO at Cochlear. Remote Assistant Fitting also won a design award in the medical and scientific category at the 2013 Australian International Design Awards. This can reduce the need for clinic visits for small program adjustments saving valuable time for both recipients and their audiologists. The wireless functionality also enables recipients themselves to make small adjustments to their programs, should they be required over time. Remote Assistant Fitting enables audiologists to do this wirelessly, which can make programming sessions a lot easier, especially with infants, who often like to move about. This is also done using a computer and cables. Soon after surgery recipients get their cochlear implant systems programmed by audiologists to set the levels. Remote Assistant Fitting, also an industry first, allows wireless cochlear implant programming on the recipients' own handheld remote assistant. The product also won a design award in the medical and scientific category at the Australian International Design Awards 2013 and beat all other entries in those awards to win the Powerhouse Museum Award. The Intraoperative Remote Assistant was a silver award winner in the implant product category at the prestigious Medical Design Excellence Awards, recently announced in Philadelphia, USA. If required, the Intraoperative Remote Assistant can also be used by the surgical team itself, as it requires minimal set-up and training. For audiologists, this vastly simplifies the current practise of testing recipients' cochlear implants using a computer and cables. *Georgia now issues eWIC cards instead of vouchers to provide food benefits to participants.The Intraoperative Remote Assistant is the implantable hearing industry's first wireless hand-held device that performs fast diagnostics on the cochlear implant before recipients leave the operating theatre. The Georgia WIC program has provided nutrition education and supplemental foods to low-income families for over thirty years. There are over 1,400 authorized vendors that are participating in the WIC food delivery system, redeeming approximately one million vouchers * each month. Services are provided at over 200 locations including health departments, community health centers, hospitals, military bases, and the Division of Family and Children Services (DFACS) offices. Georgia WIC services are provided through 18 health districts and one contract agency. Infants and Children age 1 to 5 years (including foster children).The Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Supplemental Nutrition ProgramĀ© is a federally-funded health and nutrition program for: At the state level, the Georgia Department of Public Health, Georgia WIC Program administers the program. The Food and Nutrition Service administers the program at the federal level and provides funds to state agencies for implementation. The Georgia WIC program is the nation's fifth-largest Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children. Office of Health Indicators for Planning (OHIP) Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) Occupational Health and Safety Surveillance
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