Summary:
Advanced Bionics has launched AB ListenFit, a mobile app that allows cochlear implant users to track their hearing progress through self-assessments, offering personalized insights and empowering users to take control of their hearing health.
Key Takeaways:
- Self-Guided Hearing Assessments – AB ListenFit provides quick, simple tests like the Phoneme and Matrix Sentence Tests to help users evaluate their hearing abilities in real-life situations.
- User-Friendly & Accessible – The app is free, does not require a login, and is available in multiple languages, making it easy for users to track their progress anytime, anywhere.
- Part of a Comprehensive Digital Ecosystem – As part of the Advanced DigiCare portfolio, AB ListenFit complements other digital tools designed to support both cochlear implant users and hearing care professionals in rehabilitation and remote patient care.
Advanced Bionics (AB), known for its cochlear implant technology, has launched AB ListenFit*, a new mobile app that provides quick and simple tests to let users track their hearing progress. This new resource adds to the collection of free, smart, digital connections from AB. The Advanced DigiCare portfolio includes apps, online resources, and community portals for cochlear implant (CI) candidates, users, or those with a linked hearing aid.
Taking Control of Hearing with AB ListenFit
AB ListenFit is designed to give cochlear implant users insights and immediate feedback on their hearing progress by offering self-assessments designed to check the user’s ability to hear and understand in everyday situations. The broad range of these assessments include the Phoneme Test and Matrix Sentence Test.**
Self-paced, simple, and engaging, it allows users to track their hearing performance from home or wherever they are and receive instant results. A journal function also allows users to make notes about their, or their loved ones’, hearing progress. Tracking goals over time this way is easy, allowing users to stay empowered to take an active role in their overall wellbeing.
Key Features of AB ListenFit Include:
- Checking hearing progress from at home or on-the-go: Users can choose when, where, and which self-assessments to conduct, with personalized insights and immediate feedback.
- Motivation through progress tracking: By tracking hearing progress over time, users remain engaged, confident, and motivated in their hearing journey.
- Easy to Use: The app is free to use, doesn’t require a login, and is accessible in numerous languages.
AB ListenFit App Part of Advanced DigiCare Portfolio
AB has digital tools to help everyone succeed in their hearing journey. Encompassing all of AB’s digital solutions, Advanced DigiCare offers apps and online resources for both patients and hearing care professionals. These tools empower people’s hearing journeys, enable hearing rehabilitation, and reduce geographical distances between patient care, lowering costs, and eliminating logistical barriers for more control over their hearing progress.
Whether they use the AB Remote Support App to have their device settings adjusted by their audiologist from home, or if they want to do hearing exercises on their tablets, patients can find information and personal support through AB’s range of digital tools.
AB also offers hearing care professionals tools to support their patients from candidacy, to post-implantation, to longer-term care. While patients can log onto the AB Remote Support App, professionals can use Target 1.5, the ProPortal, and various other online hearing training tools to extend their care beyond clinic walls and support the patient’s hearing progress safely and securely.
AB’s digital tools are designed to make it all easy.
Advanced DigiCare Solutions Include:
- AB Remote Support app: a remote fitting tool that allows audiologists to offer complete, billable, remote CI programming
- HearingSuccess: a free online tool for anyone using hearing aids or cochlear implants to get support and have better conversations
- Hearing Journey: the largest online community for individuals living with hearing loss to connect, chat, learn, and share
- BabyBeats: an early intervention resource filled with motivating and fun musical activities for babies and toddlers with hearing loss
- and the new AB ListenFit app: a mobile app designed to empower, educate, and assist users in tracking their hearing progress
“With Advanced DigiCare, we have digital resources for both hearing care professionals and patients. By providing tools such as Remote Programing, auditory trainings, and community resources, everyone can gain a better understanding of their hearing health, which can improve their overall well-being,” says Alistair Simpson, Advanced Bionics president. “Our new AB ListenFit app gives users even more knowledge and support needed to manage their hearing effectively with easy-to-use self-assessments.”
To learn more about AB ListenFit and the collection of Advanced DigiCare solutions from AB, visit AdvancedBionics.com.
*AB ListenFit is intended for educational use by adults and children aged 13 and older, and younger children with caregiver assistance. It is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment recommendations. Please advise your patients to consult with their healthcare provider for any medical concerns about managing their cochlear implant(s).
** Test availability may vary by region.
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I love the new AB ListenFit app! It’s super helpful for tracking my hearing progress and the self-assessments are really easy to use. Great job, Advanced Bionics!