Free Webinar on Clinician Well-being Offered by Ida Institute
This four-part course taught by Dunay Schmulian, PhD, addresses causes and remedies for such things as vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, and burnout.
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Starkey Launches ‘Student Series’ Program
This month, Starkey Chief Audiology Officer Dr Sara Burdak and Dr Gyl Kasewurm kicked off the series with an interactive virtual workshop, called “Maintaining the Joy in the Journey.”
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Audiology Network Announces Free Hearing Tests
At Audiologist Hearing Aid Specialists, you can have a free hearing assessment with no obligations. Book an appointment with a local private audiologist from the network, anywhere in the UK.
Blog: Don’t Delay in Filing Paycheck Protection Program Application
If you own a hearing healthcare practice and intend to file an application for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), do it right away. That’s the advice I’ve been receiving from industry experts and banking executives in my local community.
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‘The Hearing Review’s’ List of Teleaudiology Resources
Telehealth, in the age of the coronavirus pandemic, is becoming a critical way to provide service to hearing healthcare patients while adhering to the guidelines from the World Health Organization (WHO) and Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
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European Association of Hearing Professionals Releases COVID-19 Guidelines
The guidelines are intended to help hearing aid professionals continue to deliver vital hearing health care and, at the same time, avoid spreading the COVID-19 virus.
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DocClocker App Helps Provide Patients with Estimates of Waiting Time
With the DocClocker app, which was created and funded entirely by practicing medical physicians, medical providers can help support their patients by providing “real-time wait times and preventing the spread of the highly contagious virus by limiting the exposure of sick patients in waiting rooms.”
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7 Tips for Audiologists Responding to the COVID-19 Health Emergency
The COVID-19 virus is having a profound impact on the daily lives of all Americans, especially audiologists who serve a large senior population and/or who live or work in a heavily affected community or geographic area. Here are seven tips for audiologists in this uncertain time.
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Coronavirus Precautions: Informing Your Hearing Healthcare Staff Members
Current information suggests that older people and people with severe chronic health conditions are at higher risk of developing more serious illness from COVID-19. This may place hearing healthcare practices and their staff members in a uniquely vulnerable place. Here are some resources for informing staff members on how to protect themselves, their families, and patients.
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Hearing Care Calendar of Events: 2020
Here is a list of the major national and international hearing healthcare events you should have on your radar for 2020.
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Canadian Hearing Society Awards ‘Record Number’ of Scholarships
The CHS National Scholarship Program helps to break down financial barriers for students who are often excluded from the full academic experience because of added accessibility costs, and makes it possible for these exceptional students to pursue their dream careers.
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Audiology Rankings and Workforce
On July 12, the “US News & World Report MONEY” website ranked Audiology as the 29th best healthcare job—dead last on this particular list of 29 healthcare professions.
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Are You “Clued-in” to Offer the Ultimate Patient Experience?
While most practices have neither the Imagineers nor unlimited financial capabilities to create an audiology clinic for a “Disney experience,” practice managers should realize that every patient visit to the clinic has to be an unexpected positive experience to turn them into a loyal, repeat customer.
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SPECIAL REPORT: Social Engagement and Hearing Loss
Human beings are social creatures. This special report, featuring comments from leading experts in psychology and audiology, reviews new and important research on hearing loss, and shows why audiological care needs to renew its focus on helping patients regain their communication and social engagement activities—those things that make life meaningful and rewarding.
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Patient-Centered Hearing, Balance, and Tinnitus Care: An Interview with Adam & Jerusha Shulberg
Adam & Jerusha Shulberg are the owners of Cubex Audiology Ltd in London, a private practice that was originally founded by Adam’s father in 1964.
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The PMP Strategy for Maximizing Profit in Your Practice: Plan, Monitor, and Push
How to thrive in today’s increasingly competitive hearing healthcare business.
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FOCAS: Family Oriented Communication Assessment and Solutions
The FOCAS tool is designed to: 1) Actively seek input from both the client and family during the hearing needs and goal setting process; 2) Assess whether these are near- or far-field situations, and 3) Help to determine the optimal solutions for each. This paper by David Crowhen, MAud, and Bettina Turnbull, MAud, describes the survey results, rationale for, and how to use the FOCAS tool.
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eAudiology: Shifting from Theory to Practice
The aim of this consensus statement is to provide recommendations to hearing care providers for integrating eAudiology into their existing practice as a means to reach new patients, enhance patient care, and increase the value of their services. It is the result of an Expert Panel convened by Phonak in January 2018.
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