Will Wireless ALD Hybrids Save the Hearing Industry?
The convergence of wireless Bluetooth headset technology with hearing aid technology has the potential to produce a product class that finally appeals to younger, milder-loss patients.
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Ring! “How Much Are Your Hearing Aids?”
The industry and dispensing professionals need to re-think how they do business from a “point-of-entry approach.” The Patient Care Coordinator—or the position often referred to as “the receptionist”—is easily one of the most important people in hearing health care. As such, they need training.
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Twenty Trends Influencing the Hearing Health Care Field
A review of the hearing health care market in 2005, and a look at the current trends influencing the dispensing of hearing instruments—as well as what might be in the wings for 2006 and beyond.
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Why Are Hearing Instruments So Expensive?
When comparing analog instruments of 1980 to those of 2004, and adjusting for inflation, the cost of operating a hearing aid is less today than 25 years ago. Although average hearing aid prices for all hearing instruments have increased in the last 10 years due to CIC technology, programmability, and digital circuitry, today’s consumer has a far greater range of pricing options and choice of quality products and services.
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MarkeTrak VII: Hearing Loss Population Tops 31 Million
The hearing loss population has grown to 31.5 million people and will top 40 million within one generation. Overall customer satisfaction with new hearing instruments is 77%, placing hearing aids in the top-third of products and services in the United States.
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How to Use Live Speech Mapping as Part of a Hearing Instrument Fitting and Verification Protocol
Live Speech Mapping is a fitting process that uses probe microphones and live real-time speech to allow the patient and their family members to immediately see and understand the benefits of hearing aids and fitting adjustments. A protocol for the use of the system is presented.
Read MoreHow Hearing Loss Impacts Relationships: Whose Problem Is It?
In order to make the journey from co-dependence to independence, there sometimes needs to be some tough love. Here is an excerpt from a new book about that journey.
Read MoreNew Medicare Benefit Includes Screening for Hearing Loss and Dizziness
The new “Welcome to Medicare” examination and why it’s important for physicians and dispensers alike.
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Reasons for Optimism: A Look at the 2004-2005 Hearing Instrument Market
In 2004, the digital hearing instrument market grew to constitute 83% of all the units dispensed by hearing care professionals, and in a typical practice, more than 90% of the gross revenues came from digital aids. For the second consecutive year, return for credit rates decreased, and dispensing professionals generally witnessed steady growth in their businesses.
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Bluetooth Technology: Toward More Wireless Hearing Care Solutions
Wireless and Bluetooth technology is influencing diagnostic, assistive device, and hearing aid applications. Bluetooth technology is quickly finding its way into hearing aid applications. Here are three examples of this wireless technology’s use in the hearing care field.
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Heard Around the World! Hearing Aid Compatibility and Wireless Assistive Devices
Telecoils are in more and more hearing aids, induction loop systems are spreading, and hard of hearing advocates are more vocal in their requests for hearing aid compatible phones and assistive listening — all of which bodes well for people with hearing loss, hearing care professionals, and the hearing industry.
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An Online Hearing Screening Test
A review of a new online hearing screening test that uses pure-tone signals to assess consumers’hearing via their home computer.
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How to Measure and Demonstrate Four Key Digital Hearing Aid Performance Features
Part 1 of this two-part series looks at fitting digital aids within the “audibility window” while making accommodations for recruitment. Part 2 will look at how to verify and demonstrate directionality, noise reduction, and feedback suppression.
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Hearing Aid Prices in Historical Context
An examination of historical pricing trends in hearing aids and a comparison of how contemporary prices stack up against previous generations after inflation is considered.
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Brian Kinnerk, President Unitron Hearing US
Brian Kinnerk, president of Unitron Hearing US, Plymouth, Minn, spoke to HR about his company and the role that technological advancements play in product development.
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