HearUSA Opens 2 New Hearing Centers in Houston Area
HearUSA has opened two new hearing centers in Houston, aiming to enhance hearing health access with modern facilities and personalized support.
HearUSA has opened two new hearing centers in Houston, aiming to enhance hearing health access with modern facilities and personalized support.
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This acquisition will reportedly allow AuDStandard “to provide the industry’s most innovative and effective marketing services to current and future clients,.”
Hearing aid net unit sales in the United States increased by 2.5% during the first quarter (Q1) of 2019, totaling 1,000,653 units—the second time unit volume has ever exceeded 1 million in a quarter.
Read MoreCommentary on the recent purchase of BlameySaunders Hears by Sonova and the future potential for the “blended service model” in hearing aid dispensing.
Read MoreOne of the most striking responses from the survey revealed that over half of all respondents said they believed hearing aids are not affordable and accessible for most Americans today.
Read MoreAuDConnex announced the addition of Paul Harkness to their team as executive vice president. Harkness has more than two decades of experience in the hearing care industry.
Read MoreWilliam Demant—parent group of Oticon, Sonic, and Bernafon—has announced a licensing agreement with Philips to bring Philips-branded solutions to hearing healthcare. Combining William Demant’s hearing aid technology with Philips’ global brand presence in healthcare, the cooperation will enrich the hearing healthcare experience and support the healthy lifestyle and active life of even more people with hearing loss, say the companies.
Read MoreAmplifon SpA has announced its intent to purchase the privately owned GAES Group, Spain’s largest hearing aid distributor, for €528 million (US$616.6 million). “This major acquisition represents a key milestone in the history of our company and perfectly fits Amplifon’s growth strategy, allowing us to consolidate our global leadership and enabling us to become a market leader in Spain, as well as consolidate our market position in Portugal while also entering the Latin American region,” said Amplifon CEO Enrico Vita.
Read MoreTwo well-known names and company owners in hearing device manufacturing are joining forces. Etymotic Research Founder Mead Killion announced that his company has merged with Lucid Hearing/Lucid Audio, a prominent hearing aid and PSAP manufacturer owned by Henry Smith, founder of Authorized Hearing Systems (AHS), America Hears, and more recently Liberty Hearing Aids and Lucid Audio.
Read MoreHearing aid pricing trends relative to practice affiliation and gross revenues.
Read MoreWhile Costco’s Christian Anthis likes the article, he takes exception to the characterization of the devices being offered at Costco as “entry-level hearing aids.”
Read MoreCalled Walgreens Hearing, the new outlets are unique to the marketplace because they are designed to create new business opportunities for existing dispensing offices to partner with Starkey and serve patients at Walgreens stores in their communities. Walgreens Hearing currently exist in two pilot stores that opened last month in the Minneapolis-St Paul market, with about six others opening in three other states, some by mid-April.
Read MoreIntriCon has taken another major step forward in its hearing aid and hearables offerings—this time adding audio streaming functionality. IntriCon’s and NXP’s R&D teams merged hearing aid engineering and wireless audio streaming semiconductor technology to deliver hearing aid devices that can stream wireless audio from IntriCon’s wireless accessories. It intends to launch this technology—coupled with a remote microphone—into its Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) and Direct-to-Insurance (DTI) channels in the first half of 2018.
Read MoreThe Elite Hearing Network, a network of more than 1600 hearing care offices across the United States, has announced its new Member Advisory Board. The board consults with executive leadership on business trends, legislative agendas, services, and solutions to the hearing health industry.
Read MoreTwo well-known hearing aid group purchasing networks, AuDNet Inc and Marcon Hearing Group, have announced their merger into the newly formed AUDNET Hearing Group (AHG).
Read MoreCVS Pharmacy has added audiologist-staffed hearing centers within seven of its store locations in the Baltimore-Washington, DC area, and plans to expand to a total of 50 locations by the end of 2017, according to an article in Drug Store News.
Read MoreBig changes are happening in hearing healthcare and EarQ is at the forefront. In addition to redefining its next-level solutions for independent practices, the company has brought on industry-experts, Ron Gleitman, PhD, as vice president of sales and practice development and Catherine Richardson, MA, as outside national sales director.
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