To facilitate the sharing of insights, ideas, and best practices, CareCredit has created ‘Insights from the Outside’, a panel of “doctorpreneurs” from across many healthcare specialties, including audiology, dentistry, veterinary medicine, ophthalmology, and optometry. CareCredit will also be leading a panel discussion at the 2018 ADA Convention in Orlando.
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Widex has announced the launch of WIDEX TV PLAY™, a high-end TV accessory and streaming solution for WIDEX EVOKE™ hearing aids, which also recently received the Red Dot Design Concept Award.
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Sonova has once again been recognized for an inspirational film about hearing loss—this time by the Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards. “Life without Limitations–The Story of Jason Brügger” won gold in the category “corporate image films” and silver in the category “fairs, shows, events, conference openers.” It features Brügger–a Swiss aerialist and Phonak hearing aid user–and how innovative hearing solutions enable people with hearing loss to live a life without limitations.
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The free app, which will be officially launched on Wednesday, October 10, is designed as an accurate hearing test that can link consumers to their closest audiologist when a hearing problem is detected.
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Nearly 700 audiologists and office staff representing 270 independent hearing care and ENT practices across the United States and Canada convened in Las Vegas on September 20-22 for 3 days of hands-on learning, a robust exchange of experiences and ideas, and discussions about the future of the industry at Audigy’s biennial Team Summit.
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Hansaton has announced its most powerful SHD technology-based hearing aids yet, the beat SHD RS13 and beat SHD RS675, for people with significant to profound hearing loss. The new devices are designed to provide users with advanced hearing loss with precise speech, localization, and optimization functions, spatial acoustics, and a comfortable hearing experience.
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Seliforant (formerly SENS-111) is currently being studied in an ongoing Phase 2 trial for the treatment of acute unilateral vestibulopathy, a debilitating disease of the inner ear. Its maker, Sensorion, has announced the publication of data in the ‘British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology’ from a Phase 1 study evaluating the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics of the drug in healthy subjects. More data are expected at the end of 2018.
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The privately-owned company delivered net turnover of DKK 4,466 million (US$695 million), an increase of 8.1% compared to the previous year. Widex has recently completed its successful long-term business plan, and is embarking on a new 5-year plan designed to double the size of the company.
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Debbie Abel, AuD, currently Audigy Group’s manager of coding and contracting, has been named the next president-elect of the Academy of Doctors of Audiology.
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A study published in Trends in Hearing looks at how users of an iPod-controlled app tend to adjust their hearing aid settings after being fit to an NAL-NL1 prescriptive fitting. They found that the users’ gain adjustments were, in general, consistent for each person, but the adjustments varied substantially between individuals. However, despite their adjustments, the majority of their final preferred settings achieved similar speech-in-noise results as the NAL-NAL2 target settings with which they’d originally been prescribed.
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Valente et al found that 79% of the study participants preferred the programmed fittings using REM versus the first-fit. They conclude that “Using a first-fit alone without reprogramming using REM is fitting hearing aids blindly and not determining whether the patient is being provided appropriate audibility for soft and average speech…The audiologist or hearing aid dispenser can never be certain if he/she is appropriately fitting the patient without using REM.”
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Hearing care professionals often encounter people who complain of hearing difficulties and trouble hearing in noise, but when tested, present with hearing sensitivity and thresholds that are within “normal limits.” This article reviews the audiological evidence regarding this unique population and makes the case for educating them about sophisticated technology options—including hearing aids and wireless technology such as remote microphones—which have been proven to be extremely useful for enhancing their communication and quality of life.
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Given that the Over-the-Counter (OTC) Hearing Aid Act of 2017 is now law and a new FDA class of OTC hearing aids will be established by the end of 2020, “efforts should now focus on ensuring that older adults also have access to affordable hearing care services,” write Nicholas Reed, Frank Lin, and Amber Willink, PhD, in the September 13 “JAMA Network.”
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Dr Van Vliet explains a recent clinical encounter in which the patient ultimately had an initially grudging, but eventually open, embrace and acceptance of his amplification.
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What the hearing care field formerly knew as Sonitus Medical’s Soundbite system, a bone-conduction hearing device that resembled a dental bridge, has now re-emerged as Sonitus Technologies and a high-tech communications device called the ‘Molar Mic’ for military and rescue applications.
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