Interactive sessions included getting “hands-on” with various hearing instruments and cochlear implants while other classes discussed life in private practice and the importance of incorporating Family Centered Care.
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ASHA reports it is collaborating with the American Academy of Audiology (AAA) and the Academy of Doctors of Audiology (ADA) to move this “critical legislation” forward in Congress.
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The RRT is an integrated speech test that provides a platform for individualized counseling. The goal is to provide a better understanding of each patient’s communication difficulties, then use that understanding to set realistic expectations. We believe the use of this tool, along with other tools that allow individualized fine-tuning, could help promote greater patient satisfaction for hearing aids.
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Effects of inserting the probe tube through various sized vents, as well as under the earmold, during real-ear probe mic testing were examined in this study by Stephen Painton, PhD, and Taylor Sweeney. Results seem to support the practice of inserting the probe tube through the vents of earmolds for a “truer” low-frequency measure. This seemed to be the case regardless of the diameter of the vent. All conditions with the probe tube under the earmold seemed to show a “slit leak” effect on the low-frequency output measures that was larger than any effect shown by the probe tube being placed through the vent.
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On July 12, the “US News & World Report MONEY” website ranked Audiology as the 29th best healthcare job—dead last on this particular list of 29 healthcare professions.
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Audiologist Marshall Chasin posits a simple test that can be employed with a piano or keyboard that might quickly screen people for the possibility of a cochlear dead zone.
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Dennis Van Vliet recently attended the American Cochlear Implant Alliance (ACIA) conference and was reminded that “stepping out of the silo of work that I do every day into another, but related, realm is important to broaden my understanding of the larger discipline.”
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The path to personalized hearing solutions has never been easy or friction-free; it’s filled with one large speed bump—namely, the earmold impression. Audiologist Susan Whichard explains why 3D ear scanning technology is set to change the area of custom hearing aid fitting.
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Should you try to compete on price, focus on a specific audiological niche like pediatrics or implants, or differentiate your practice by creating a unique patient experience? Longtime private practice audiologist, Robert Traynor, EdD, MBA, explains how to “avoid getting stuck in the middle” and instead develop a competitive strategy that is right for your hearing healthcare practice and right for your market.
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While hearing care professionals might perceive OTC/DTC as a threat or detrimental to their professional autonomy and livelihood, authors Rupa Balachandran and Amyn Amlani show how there are opportunities to meet the demand of listeners with impaired hearing through the provision of revenue-generating professional services. These service opportunities allow for the preservation of the independent practice channel for those practitioners who understand and recognize the economics of the transformed, and continually evolving, US hearing healthcare environment.
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However, private sales in the UK continued their strong performance with hearing instrument sales up 4.4% on Q1, from 82,573 to 86,250 units sold.
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Their results, published in the journal “eNeuro,” show that the filtering begins at the very beginning of the auditory stimuli processing, ie, in the brainstem. This finding runs counter to earlier hypotheses, which held that it was a function of the frontal cortex control, which is heavily impacted in schizophrenics.
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In his new role, Peterson will be responsible for developing sales strategies, driving improvements, and implementing best practices to deliver quality support and services to Oticon’s professional partners.
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The findings, made by a University of Michigan team using data from nearly 115,000 people over age 66 with hearing loss and insurance coverage through a Medicare HMO between 2008 and 2016, are published in the “Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.”
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This study suggests that not properly treating infections or other conditions that chronically affect the middle ear may lead to neural deficits and increased difficulties hearing in noisy environments.
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