Illustrative Analogies for Dispensing Professionals
Author Roy Bain explains how framing ideas in ways patients can easily understand positively reinforces their decision about purchasing a hearing aid.
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Blog: Why Not a Joint Fall Convention?
More than ever before, the fields of audiology and hearing aid specialists need each other. A joint convention of IHS and ADA members—politically unthinkable just 10 years ago—might just be one of the revolutionary moves our industry needs.
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Staff Standpoint: Stick to Your Guns
What hearing care professionals cannot lose sight of is that you have a proven and comprehensive solution for an extremely detrimental and debilitating (if untreated) chronic health condition: hearing loss.
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IHS Heats Up Palm Springs with 63rd Annual Convention
The 2014 International Hearing Society (IHS) Meeting offered over 50 exhibits of the latest products and services, nearly 20 seminars and educational sessions, preconvention workshops on ear impressions, tympanometry, and tinnitus therapy, as well as keynote presentations about leadership and entrepreneurialism. It also offered an Industry Leadership Panel that provided perspectives from many of the largest hearing aid manufacturers and distributors both in the United States and abroad.
Read MoreState of the Industry Presentation, Part 5 of 5: Q & A and Comments
This week, in Part 5, we wrap up The Hearing Review & CareCredit State of the Industry Presentation Series with comments from the dinner’s audience, including viewpoints from Drs David Fabry, Kim Cavitt, Scot Frink, Edward Aleo, and Roy Sullivan.
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State of the Industry Presentation, Part 4 of 5: Dan Quall on the Value of Private Practices and KPIs
This week, in Part 4 of the series, Dan Quall of Starkey Hearing Technologies provides a comparison of the fields of audiology, optometry, and dentistry—demonstrating a vital need for hearing healthcare to retain its tradition of private practices. He also details a number of key performance indicators (KPI) for practice owners to watch closely.
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Barry Freeman Joins ZPower As VP of Business Development
Barry Freeman, PhD, takes his 35 years of experience serving the Audiology community to ZPower, a developer of rechargeable hearing aid battery technology.
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State of the Industry Presentation, Part 3 of 5: Brian Taylor on “Interventional Audiology”
In Part 3 of this series, Brian Taylor, AuD, looks at the unmet needs of individuals with hearing impairment and the increasing importance of establishing deep, long-lasting relationships with your community, physicians, and patients through education on health issues—or what Dr Taylor refers to as “interventional audiology.”
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State of the Industry Presentation, Part 2 of 5: Price Inelasticity, Unbundling, and Smartphone Apps
This week, in Part 2 of our 5-part “State of the Industry” series, Amyn Amlani, PhD, presents an overview of his research that involves the inelasticity of hearing aid pricing, the advantages of unbundling prices, and how smartphone amplification applications and devices for use as starter hearing aids may reduce the adoption time for consumers who ultimately purchase a hearing aid.
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Mapping HRTFs: Acoustic Cues for Three-dimensional Spatial Hearing Across Hearing Aid Styles
Head-related transfer functions, or HRTFs, represent the location-dependent information about sound sources used by the brain. This article describes extensive sets of head-related transfer functions for different styles of hearing aids that have recently been made available for researchers, developers, and any interested clinicians.
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State of the Industry Presentation, Part 1 of 5: Dispenser Survey Results Summary
Last April, just prior to the American Academy of Audiology (AAA) Convention in Orlando, The Hearing Review hosted a “State of the Industry” dinner sponsored by CareCredit that drew more than 100 distinguished audiologists and industry experts to see presentations on four important topics that are central to private practice hearing care from Karl Strom, Amyn Amlani, Brian Taylor, and Dan Quall.
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Knowles Ships Two Millionth MEMS Microphone
Knowles Corporation announced the shipping its two millionth MEMS microphone for hearing instruments.
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Staff Standpoint: Distribution Solution
Commoditization and changes in hearing aid distribution are unsettling. Hearing Review Editor-in-Chief takes a look at the issues of concern in his July 2014 Staff Standpoint column.
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EarQ, Technology Partners Lead Discussions on the State of the Industry
EarQ and its technology partners, Oticon, Siemens, and Starkey, recently held exclusive events for EarQ members to discuss the state of the industry.
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ZPower Secures $10 Million to Support Growth
ZPower has announced it has raised $10 million in additional funding from existing investors, bringing the total to $110 million from investors.
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