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receiving my device was live
altering I feel my device has changed
the perception of how others treat
me I am a person a human being and for
the first time I feel that's what they
see first
the primary focus of Toby davox is
Healthcare integration program is to
improve the way patients experience
their care when they're in the hospital
it's really important that the our
patients be able to um speak to how
they're feeling you've got a person
there someone who wants to um say
something or be engaged in what we're
doing and that demands an interactive
approach
so this program can benefit healthcare
providers by allowing them to spend a
little less time trying to figure out
what their patients wants and needs
because their patients are now able to
describe those things more directly
they're capable of telling you exactly
what they need or what they want in any
particular situations and I can
communicate back to them in a way that
they could understand we have paired
down the technology to be simple and
straightforward and very easy to use uh
it really opens a lot lot of doors for
those patients Joe is a 16-year-old girl
she is a very intelligent articulate and
uh caring individual when she was a year
and a half she stopped uh being able to
speak and use her hands and found out
when she was 2 and a half that she had
red syndrome Joe um ended up being quite
ill this spring and was admitted to the
hospital but aditt directly into
intensive care yeah Joe's uh command of
the Toby dynabox ey tracking technology
was uh was impressive to the point where
Not only was she able to communicate but
she was actually able to demonstrate her
personality to us when asked how I was
feeling by Dr Conrad upon meeting him in
intensive care I stated I feel like crap
it broke the ice he realized that I was
a teen who isn't afraid to speak my mind
it was a great segue to what in the next
couple weeks would become a wonderful
doctor patient
relationship it really became a joy to
go into her room and not just do rounds
on her and put in place a plan for the
day but actually to engage in a
conversation with her he actively
discussed with me what my needs and
goals were for each day he saw me as a
patient and a person not just a chart I
could tell his goal was to help me get
better the way I thought was best in the
past when she's been in intensive care
situations or even just in a regular
hospital room we've had to speak for her
we've had to stand and and be the ones
to say she needs to try this Joe was
able to have control of her
circumstance in a situation where
otherwise she would not have had control
that power for her was
phenomenal the Toby dynabox ey tracking
technology when I was first exposed to
it was
um a revelation without a doubt um this
has really opened our eyes uh to um the
importance and the necessity of trying
to leverage technology to actually be
able to get better insights as to what
the children are
experiencing we number one design the
solution so it's not as threatening for
healthc Care Professionals to use in
front of a patient and secondly we
provide all of the training and support
needed to ensure that that program is
successful my device allows me to
control the volume of my thoughts and to
express myself freely she's not Her
diagnosis she's not her syndrome she's a
human being and she deserves that right
to communicate with us like anybody else
would I am free to share my sarcasm
humor thoughts and opinions or that I
could tell my mom dad and sister I love
them it's going to make a huge
difference to what we do and how we
provide care to patients who can't
communicate effectively