Sonic’s newest addition to the Cheer family, the Cheer20 miniRITE hearing aid, combines technology, convenience and value, creating opportunities for more users to experience natural sound, along with features not always expected in an entry-level model.
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Dr Van Vliet argues that providing affordable, accessible hearing care is complicated, and technology alone won’t solve the problem, but improvements in the process will help. As recommendations from NAS are reviewed, it is important to consider processes as well.
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This study evaluates 11 low-end and high-end hearing aids and PSAPs, and shows that all high-end hearing aids were able to fit most audiometric configurations, and 2 high-end PSAPs and 1 app were able to fit up to a moderate loss configuration.
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At AudiologyNOW! 2016, The Hearing Review and CareCredit offered data from two recent surveys and hosted a panel of four experts from audiology, dentistry, and private practice.
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Sonova Holding AG—the world’s largest hearing aid manufacturer and parent company of Phonak, Unitron, and Advanced Bionics—has announced its intention to purchase AudioNova, Europe’s second-largest hearing aid retailer for US$952 million.
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Auditdata’s increasing activities in the US have been fueled by its acquisition of Otovation, and its relatively new partnership with Sycle.net–growth that demanded a strengthening of the US team, which Joy Glen joined as VP of US Sales in March 2016.
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Covering AudiologyNOW! 2016, The New York Times reports that hearing aid technologies at the event were impressive, but the real issue on attendees’ minds was how consumer electronics are encroaching on the industry by offering less expensive PSAPs.
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Brian Taylor, AuD, summarizes findings from recent studies about people who complain of hearing loss but are found to have near-normal audiograms, and introduces strategies and tools for assessing how our field might be of greater service to them—while paving a path for what he calls “interventional audiology.”
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Earlens has hired long-time Starkey executive Phil Lyons as its senior VP of sales and professional education. The company plans to launch its unique Light-Driven Hearing Aid in the second quarter of this year.
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Signia, the new hearing aid brand from Sivantos, has unveiled primax, described as the company’s most advanced hearing aid platform to date, and the first technology clinically proven by independent studies to reduce listening effort throughout the day while providing “better than normal” hearing in challenging listening environments.
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Betty DeKraker, AuD, the owner of a small hearing clinic in Ontario, is one of five small business owners receiving an AMFB 2016 Small Business Achievement Award. DeKraker’s clinic achieved exponential growth within its first 18 months, with sales numbers she hadn’t forecasted reaching until year five.
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France’s Autorité de la concurrence (Ac) is gathering information to assess the French hearing aid retail sector, with the goal of publishing possible recommendations for improving competition in hearing healthcare and increasing the utilization of hearing devices.
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Hansaton Acoustics announced Adam Miller as its new regional sales manager for the upper midwest territory. Described by Hansaton as an “industry spitfire,” Miller has seven years of sales experience, including three years at Starkey Hearing Technologies.
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AudioNova International BV, Europe’s second-largest hearing aid retailer, is being put up for sale and could garner an offer of around $500 million euros ($559 million), according to a report from Bloomberg Business.
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iHear Medical announced that it received FDA clearance for the iHearTest, the first hearing test approved for over-the-counter (OTC) sales. The iHearTest is intended to profile hearing ability based on WHO guidelines, targeting adults who suspect they have hearing loss, or those reluctant to seek professional evaluation for a basic hearing assessment.
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