YHN is a national network of hearing healthcare professionals with nearly 5,000 affiliates, that allows independent providers to generate and maximize patient opportunities while maintaining practice autonomy.
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IntriCon 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.
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Oticon has appointed Josephine Poelma, MS, PMP® to Executive Director, Learning and Development, and Dawn Spring, MBA, to Executive Director, Customer Experience. Additionally, six new directors have been named to strategic positions in Marketing and Sales.
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IntriCon Corporation, the Minneapolis-based manufacturer of branded hearing aids and hearables including hi HealthInnovations and EarVenture and the new owner of Hearing Help Express, recorded sales of $88.3 million, up 29.9% from $68.0 million in 2016. The company is expanding its manufacturing footprint and is looking ahead to the emerging OTC hearing aid market.
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Hearingbenefit.com is the company’s dedicated direct-to-consumer website store, which is designed to complete the purchase phase for the consumer.
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The LOI is designed to give InnerScope a universal tele-audiology solution for professionals to remotely program hearing aid devices, according to the announcement.
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Here are 50 news items, columns, and webinars that you should not have missed in 2017 that were featured in “The Hearing Review,” along with a second list of news stories by month in 2017.
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We must embrace the new OTC technology because of the role it can play in the service of our patients’ hearing care needs. We can expand the market by providing it as a treatment option. We can implement our patient loyalty programs and make sure we hold on to the FDA-approved hearing aid market that is currently served. These new patients/entrants into our practices should stay loyal to us for all of their fitting needs, trading up when medically necessary, all their lives.
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The new BEYOND Z will begin shipping this month in the US and Canada, and shipments to the rest of the markets will begin Q1 2018.
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Affiliates will have the freedom to choose from a menu of business solutions that include national lead generation programs, an outsourced call center, insurance claims verification, and professional educational resources.
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Doppler Labs—the San Francisco-based developer of the DUBS Acoustic Filters, Here Active Listening, and Here One Wireless Smart Earbuds—announced its closing this week. In this blog, Hearing Review editor Karl Strom looks at some of the assumptions about the hearing industry.
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Ellis has over two decades of experience in the healthcare field as a sales manager and senior executive, including experience in the hearing healthcare field where he served as national sales manager and vice president of managed care for Beltone Electronics.
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The short answer: No, but the situation is complex. As this article explains, the key problem with the wireless Bluetooth protocol is latency—or the amount of time it takes to capture, process, amplify, and convey the signals wirelessly to the earbuds.
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The BIHIMA reports what they call “sustained growth” in the NHS market with the number of units distributed through the National Health Service (NHS) up 6.7% in the year to date compared with 2016.
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Hancock brings a vast industry experience on the manufacturing side, in both hearing aid and equipment sales, having worked as a territory sales manager.
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