What happens if you call mike jones

Eleven years later, the number is no longer in service. However, if you pair the number with a Georgia area code which many enterprising fans have ended up doing at random when trying to reach Keys , a retired Baptist preacher named J. Turner picks up. I know this because I called him. When I asked if the Snopes entry about him fielding 20 to 25 calls per day was accurate, he was pretty taken aback by the low number.

And the number is out there. You found me. I have to admire the tenacity of a man who held on to the phone number after 11 years of steady harassment propagated by Alicia Keys and her Georgia-area fans hellbent on terrorizing an elderly man. Leave the man alone. The adlib that will forever be tied to the legendary Houston rapper, whose real name is actually Mike Jones. Mike Jones the artist, who at one point was one of the biggest celebrities in hip-hop, gave his real-life telephone number for the entire world to hear.

During a time when pushing hard-copy albums and going to radio stations to have your records played were two things at the forefront of any up and coming artist — Mike Jones did not fall short. At one point, he was running the H-Town, breaking into the mainstream scene and taking over airwaves all around the city. Despite the fact that that line may not work in , Mike Jones knows the impact he had on Houston hip-hop, giving legends such as Z-Ro and Paul Wall a run for their money.

We got a chance to chat with the enterprising rapper about back-in-the-day H-Town, his original rap name before using his real one and possibly working with Lil Yachty. Mike Jones? Mike Jones: The adlib really got started when I was just trying to get people to really know about me and my music, and people were being really sarcastic at the time.

When they being funny about it, just throw it back in their face. OKP: Can you talk about why you chose to use your real name instead of creating a rap moniker? MJ: I chose to use my real name because I just wanted to be me. Mike Jones is mine [and that was who I was gonna be]. OKP: Did you ever have one before you professionally used your name?

If so, what was it? MJ: I did. OKP: Recently, your manager told us about your Spotify situation. Jones: That's a great idea. I mean, I think the first thing we need to do is demonstrate proof of concept. Right now, as I say, we're very much in the discovery phase, but hopefully in the near future, we'll be able to say, okay, we can identify antecedents that might suggest someone who's going to drop off of their program or stop entirely. And we can intervene to change that, to keep them with their program beyond the expected time at which they would drop off.

So I think the first step we've got to prove that concept, having done that, it'd be great to move into what we call proof of product, implement that in a clinical demonstration that as I say, perhaps compares the conventional outpatient therapy approach to an approach where the therapist can set up the parameters of this sensor-enhanced activity management system.

And it will progress the patient or send feedback back to the clinician to encourage them to intervene or change the program, etcetera. If we can show with that demonstration, that it is more effective and efficient than the conventional model, then I think we're really getting somewhere.

And then what I'd be interested in beyond that is if that works, how readily is it adopted? You know, we've done some preliminary work, surveys and focus groups with clinicians to get their take on this. And I've been frankly surprised at how much interest there is and how much folks are already using, for example, therapy management platforms in their practice.

So they're already using some online management tools for home therapy for their clients. There are concerns about how well it integrates with their existing work processes to make sure that it could be integrated into practice effectively. And part of that is reimbursement. So I think we've got to make the case and perhaps COVID has helped make that case for us, that these strategies can be used effectively, do have benefit and therefore can be reimbursed.

Rabinowitz: So the field might really be ready to start to adopt some of these things. It sounds like and there might be the impetus now to make the reimbursement scheme get on board. Jones: I'm hoping we're there, we've talked about it for years, but I really think that part of the silver lining of COVID is that maybe we now have that demonstration of the value. So, you know, we've talked a bit about how you folks at Moss are using conversation agents in your rehab project, using that to promote the use of behavioral activation in your patients with brain injury.

I know there are other efforts underway at Moss to, for example, use remote sensor technologies, as well as artificial intelligence in rehab. You know, our overall focus has been on mobile rehabilitation in rehab. I wonder if you could share with us your thoughts about how that might change practice at Moss and what you see the future holds for both your patients and clinicians there at MossRehab.

Rabinowitz: Well, one of the things that obviously has been accelerated by the pandemic as we've discussed is this need to deliver more of our services remotely. And so that's something that we've seen accelerate on the clinical side, in a number of different efforts, but also something that I think has shaped and put to the fore, some of the work that was already happening at the Research Institute, so I can give you some examples of that.

One thing that I had been involved in now, going back starting a little over a year ago, was a pilot demonstration project supported by the Brain Injury Association of Pennsylvania that's being funded by the PA Department of Health that was looking at remote delivery of cognitive rehabilitation services.

And so Moss clinicians and some other partners in the area, we've been providing them with technology, with iPads and high speed internet that they can give to their patients and actually do deliver all or part of their outpatient cognitive rehabilitation for brain injury remotely. So that is the clinical program. And at the Research Institute I'm leading a program evaluation project to evaluate the efficacy and the feasibility of that intervention.

So how difficult is it? What equipment do people tend to need? Do we reduce missed appointments? Are clinicians finding that there's some things that they're able to do better because they're actually reaching the individual in their homes instead of the clinic?

So that's a project that was already underway and we're eager to see how those results pan out, because we think that getting more reimbursement support for those kinds of remote services could really open up a lot of possibilities for serving our population. And that's just one example of something that I think Moss has been involved in that I only see broadening in the future. In the Research Institute, a number of my colleagues have been involved in projects that use technology that can be also implemented remotely.

So things like virtual reality interventions for motor rehabilitation in the context of stroke and other clinical issues. We have a number of projects that use remote sensor data that we've evaluated using wearable technology to gather actigraphy data, to get a sense of what people's physical activity levels are like.

We have projects that are looking at that in individuals with traumatic brain injury. And we've also been involved in evaluating a method for assessing sleep after brain injury that can be implemented remotely.

And so we can get a sense of what individuals might be struggling with sleep problems, which are really common after traumatic brain injury. So those are just a few examples of things that are happening on the clinic side or things that are being developed in the Research Institute that we can really see some immediate clinical applications of. Jones: Fascinating. It sounds like Moss has certainly been at the forefront of using these technologies, certainly during this era of COVID and continue to serve our patients at a distance.

I think it'll be exciting for all of us to see where we go from here. Envision a new normal post COVID where this will become part of our standard practice throughout rehab. Rabinowitz: Yeah, I think you've noted this, Mike, a lot of this is we're adapting on the fly to the circumstances that we're in right now, but there's so much promise to actually increase the accessibility of care.

And I think that everybody has recognized that there's transportation barriers, there's financial barriers, there's a lot of things that make it difficult to serve our population in the traditional model where people have to come to the clinic. Home visits have always been a part of rehab, but those can be costly as well.

So, this kind of explosion of digital platforms and this pressing need to adapt what we're doing, I think could really result in an improvement in our service delivery model that lasts far beyond the situation that we currently find ourselves in. Jones: Well, we know necessity can be the mother of invention. I think this shows that it also can be the mother of adoption in terms of the use of these new technologies and rehabs. Rabinowitz: Do you have any advice or recommendations for people who want to learn more about mRehab?

Jones: It's a burgeoning field, as I say, but I'd certainly encourage people to check out our website, mrehabrerc. We've got a start of a bibliography there. And so there are a lot of references to both our work and others', much of that is still conceptual, certainly, but that may be useful to folks that are interested in learning more about this area.

For those folks that are in rehab and active in ACRM check out the technology track, the technology networking group. There are a number of presentations have been over the last couple of years and I think a couple planned this year that are focused on mRehab strategies. Rabinowitz: Well, thank you so much for your time, Mike, it's always, it's always such a delight to talk to you. I learned a lot about mRehab and the other things that are going on. So this is really a treat.

Thanks for speaking with us today. Go to mossrehab. Thanks for listening. Amanda Rabinowitz, PhD, and Mike Jones, PhD Developing Apps for Mobile Rehabilitation Along with communications, entertainment and interpersonal relationships, modern technology, smartphones and devices such as Siri and Alexa are now at the heart of some revolutionary changes in therapy and rehabilitation, allowing healthcare providers to guide and monitor their patient's progress.

Read the Transcript Here is a transcript of our conversation with Drs. Rabinowitz and Jones: Along with communications, entertainment and interpersonal relationships, modern technology, smartphones and devices such as Siri and Alexa are now at the heart of some revolutionary changes in therapy and rehabilitation, allowing healthcare providers to guide and monitor their patient's progress. And then most recently funded center on mobile rehabilitation, which has a great group of partners, of which you're one of them, reached out to our team a couple of years ago, wanting advice on tech transfer.

Jones: Well, it's my pleasure, Amanda, and thanks so much for taking time to chat.