Demystifying REM Verification for Non-Occluding Fittings
Does the real-ear unaided response need to be subtracted for non-occluding fittings? What about Speechmap/SPL-o-gram methods?
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High Drama in Audiology! A Brief History of Binaural Hearing Aid Fittings
Binaural hearing aid fittings have completely changed the hearing healthcare landscape for the better. However, the road to this particular “best practice”—with probably around 85% of all of today’s fittings involving two hearing aids—was not a smooth one in the United States.
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NAL Webinar on Hearing Aid Post-fitting to Take Place August 4
The aim of this project was to investigate the barriers and facilitators between hearing aid users and face-to-face audiological services, in the period after hearing aid fitting, and to attempt to bridge that gap using new technology.
Results of the Covid-19 Impact Survey #3 (May 13-22) for Hearing Healthcare Practices
Hearing healthcare practices made good progress toward recovery in May and look to do significantly better in June, according to results from The Hearing Review’s third survey that looks at the impact of the coronavirus on our field.
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Efficacy of Directional Microphones in Open Fittings Under Realistic Signal-to-Noise Ratios Using Widex MOMENT Hearing Aids
PureSound with ZeroDelay technology has been designed to shorten hearing aid processing delays to less than 0.5 ms across frequencies and therefore greatly enhance the sound quality, particularly for large-vent or open fittings—fittings that can reduce the effectiveness of directional microphones. This study shows the PureSound program on the MOMENT hearing aid is as effective as the premium products of two other manufacturers for managing speech understanding in noise at realistic SNRs.
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Lantos Launches Storefront E-Commerce Portal for Custom-fit Hearing Products
Products currently available cover sleep assistance, personal audio, professional audio, work safety, recreation & sport safety, and hunting & outdoor.
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‘NPR’ Article Explores Safety of Preventative Care Visits
The consensus, according to the article, seems to be that doctors or dentists that are accepting patients are likely to be taking greater precautions—such as deep cleaning, wearing masks and protective equipment, and temperature checks— than normal to protect patients and staff.
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MedPB Webinar: Good News about COVID You’ll Want to Hear
To help you get the practical information you need to speed the recovery of your practice, on Tuesday, June 9, MedPB is hosting a webinar that pulls in top experts to walk you through what you need to know and do to put together your 90-day recovery plan.
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Koalys Launches Home Audiology Solution
Koalys Comfort is a home audiology platform which provides streamlined tele-consultation, remote diagnostic, and fitting capabilities.
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Signia Launches Remote Care
Remote Care from Signia meets “an immediate need among HCPs for a complete and comprehensive way to help their patients remotely.”
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Signia TeleCare Now Available to HCPs Treating Veterans
TeleCare helps enable HCPs to connect via phone, video, or text-based chats with their patients, discuss their success or challenges, and make any necessary adjustments in real time, according to the company.
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Starkey Creates Resource Page for Hearing Care Providers During COVID-19
As local and state governments work to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus by ordering non-essential services to close their doors, hearing care providers have been caught in a gray area, which has reduced access to care for people with hearing loss.
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Phonak Partners with VA to Expand Telehealth Access
With Phonak Remote Support, VA audiologists can now extend care beyond the walls of their clinics to patients who are social distancing, have mobility challenges, or to those who prefer virtual follow-up sessions.
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Combining Passive and Interactive Techniques in Tracking Auditory Ecology in Hearing Aid Use
How can we track auditory ecology in hearing aid use? This pilot study pilot study by Danielle Glista, PhD, and her colleagues from Western and Wilfrid Laurier Universities and Unitron Canada looks at the various forms of big-data collection and analysis for increasing the performance of hearing aids.
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Oticon RemoteCare Now Available Through VA, DOD
Oticon RemoteCare “expands the potential for VA audiologists to assist more veterans remotely, helping them to meet vital hearing healthcare needs when in-person appointments cannot take place or when veterans are unable to travel to the office.”
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New Phonak Telehealth Technology Will Help Enable Remote Hearing Aid Fittings
This new telehealth technology is comprised of a suite of Phonak eSolutions featuring online hearing testing as well as real-time remote hearing aid fitting, programming, and fine-tuning.
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Is Hearing Healthcare Essential?
During a crisis, it’s more important than ever that people stay connected. Hearing healthcare professionals must adapt to a world with Covid-19. They must begin to provide care in a different, but responsible, way.
Read MoreCovid-19 and Hearing Aid Sales
US hearing aid unit sales dropped off the table after the first week of March. However, even with the “Great Lockdown,” first-quarter US hearing aid unit sales still came in about 1% above the same period last year, according to HIA statistics.
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