GN Hearing Acquires Online Hearing Care Provider Lively
GN Hearing has acquired a controlling interest in online hearing care provider Lively, obtaining a 91% ownership stake in the company for $94.8 million.
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How to Manage in Managed Care, Part 3: How to Survive and Thrive in this Brave New World of Hearing Healthcare
Getting answers to important questions about managed care and how it fits in your unique practice is vital. Here are some basic business calculations and metrics for understanding how a managed care plan might benefit, or not benefit, your practice.
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Neuromod USA Appoints Teri Minard As Director, Gov Sales
Neuromod Devices Ltd, the medical device company which specializes in neuromodulation technologies, has announced the appointment of Teri Minard as Director, Government Sales of its recently established US entity, Neuromod USA Inc.
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GN Hearing Scholarship Winners Announced
GN Hearing announced that Shamine Alves and Darchayla Lewis have been named the first recipients of the GN Hearing Scholarship. Both are seniors pursuing degrees at Hampton University in Virginia in the Communicative Sciences and Disorders program.
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Whisper 1.3: Changing the Hearing Industry One Upgrade at a Time
Hearing Review interviews Andrew Song, co-founder and president of Whisper, which is celebrating its one-year anniversary with its third planned upgrade of the company’s AI/software-based hearing aid system.
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GN Hearing to Delay Key 2021 Product Launches, Restructure R&D
GN Hearing, the parent company of ReSound and Beltone, announced in a profit warning that it is experiencing delays in product development deliverables leading to postponement of key product launches planned for H2 2021. The company has decided to initiate a transformation of R&D with the objective to increase quality, predictability of delivery times, and R&D efficiency.
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Preparing Your Hearing Care Practice for OTC Hearing Aids
OTC hearing aids don’t have to be something you dread. You can use it as an opportunity to revolutionize your practice and make changes that work in both your and the consumers’ favor.
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The ‘Good Life’: What 40 Years of Consumer Comments Suggest About Hearing Aid Use
In hearing healthcare, we tend to look for dramatic moments which bring a person to appreciate their need for hearing aids and audiologic services. However, in large part, it’s the more trivial, everyday activities that can define the immense impact of better hearing.
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Jackie Phillips, AuD, Named VP of Sales at SafKan/OtoSet
SafKan Health—the developer of automated and FDA-cleared ear cleaning device Otoset®—has announced the appointment of audiology sales veteran Jackie Phillips, AuD, as Vice President of Sales.
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Inventis Adds Mike Deshler as Regional Sales Manager
Inventis, a company that develops and manufactures audiology equipment has announced the expansion of its local team in the Southeastern United States. Mike Deshler has joined the company as a Regional Sales Manager.
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Amplifon to “Wind-down” Elite Hearing Network; Purchases Bay Audio in Australia
Amplifon announced it will wind-down its wholesale business, the Elite Hearing Network, by the end of the year. It also announced the purchase of Bay Audio, a large independent hearing care provider on Australia’s East Coast.
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Hearing Aid Market Roars Back in First Half 2021
The latest statistics from the Hearing Industries Association (HIA) indicate a big comeback in 2021 for US hearing aid dispensing. For the first half of 2021, net unit sales rose by 61.6% when compared to H1 2020, and by 13.5% when compared to the pre-pandemic period of H1 2019.
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Eargo Introduces Eargo 5 Hearing Aid
Eargo 5 is Eargo’s fifth-generation device and is a medical-grade, FDA Class II exempt hearing device designed to be “customizable by the user to their hearing preferences through all new Sound Match technology,” according to Eargo’s announcement. Through Sound Match, Eargo 5 “helps enable custom tuning with no clinic visits or waiting rooms.”
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Biden Executive Order Looks at Cost of Hearing Aids
According to “NPR,” the orders includes plans to allow hearing aids to be sold over the counter at pharmacies, much like Obama administration efforts that strived to make hearing aids less like pricy medical devices and as easy to purchase as reading glasses.
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ASHA Issues Hearing Protection Advice for July 4th
A single loud blast or explosion that lasts for less than 1 second can cause permanent hearing loss right away. This noise, called impulse noise or impact noise, can come from sources such as fireworks or gunfire.
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