Brian Taylor, AuD, summarizes findings from recent studies about people who complain of hearing loss but are found to have near-normal audiograms, and introduces strategies and tools for assessing how our field might be of greater service to them—while paving a path for what he calls “interventional audiology.”
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In this webinar on “Battling Big Box Retail: Private Practice Hearing Care in the Era of Mass Retailers,” Tina Soika, MS, provides the 6 most successful strategies private practices can utilize to compete effectively against Big Box stores. Now available on demand.
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What is the lowest priced hearing aid you can afford to offer and still retain financial viability? How do you establish a service charge for people coming to your office from another practice, a Big Box store, the Internet, or elsewhere? Dan Quall addresses these questions in a short webinar.
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Widex USA President Jeff Geigel has announced the return of Eric Spar as the company’s VP of Strategic Development.
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Earlens has hired long-time Starkey executive Phil Lyons as its senior VP of sales and professional education. The company plans to launch its unique Light-Driven Hearing Aid in the second quarter of this year.
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France’s Autorité de la concurrence (Ac) is gathering information to assess the French hearing aid retail sector, with the goal of publishing possible recommendations for improving competition in hearing healthcare and increasing the utilization of hearing devices.
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The rumors about Starkey Hearing Technologies, Eden Prairie, Minn, purchasing Audigy Group, Vancouver, Wash, are untrue, according to both companies.
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Apple Inc has asked the FCC for permission to remove telecoil functionality requirements from its iPhone smartphones and instead recognize its MFi platform as a viable alternative to hearing aid compatibility (HAC) compliance.
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In the fourth quarter of 2015, GN ReSound delivered 9% organic growth and EBITA of DKK 340 million (US$51.8 MM). The full-year 2015 organic growth was 8% and EBITA was DKK 995 million (US$142.6 MM).
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AudioNova International BV, Europe’s second-largest hearing aid retailer, is being put up for sale and could garner an offer of around $500 million euros ($559 million), according to a report from Bloomberg Business.
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About 3,200 practice owners and industry guests attended the third biennial Starkey Hearing Innovations Expo in Las Vegas on January 20-23 where they were treated to information from Presidents Clinton and Bush, stars from the hit TV series Shark Tank, Magic Johnson, Ben Affleck, several bestselling authors, as well as some of the field’s best researchers.
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Starkey Hearing Technologies’ former president Jerry Ruzicka has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the company. Starkey says that Ruzicka is the person who is under investigation by the FBI and IRS, not the company.
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Hearing aid net unit sales in the United States grew to 3.36 million units in 2015, a 7.17% increase over the 3.13 million units dispensed in 2014. For the first time since 2006, private sector unit growth exceeded that of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
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The 2016 Unison Hearing Health Global Summit, which would have for the first time joined the International Hearing Society (IHS) and the Academy of Doctors of Audiology (ADA) conventions into a single venue with separate programs, has been cancelled. Each organization will hold their own separate conventions this year.
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Starkey Hearing Technologies is not the subject of any FBI investigation, and the company briefed staff members on Friday, saying “as much as was legally possible about an ongoing Federal investigation” that allegedly centers on one or more of the recently fired top executives.
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