HIA announced several highlights that occurred during its recent Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, March 4-6, including the election of Scott Davis, Siemens Hearing Instruments, as the new Chairman of the Board.
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The New Jersey Association of Hearing Health Professionals (NJAHHP) announced its 2015 Conference, “New Frontiers in Hearing Healthcare,” to be held April 23-24, 2015.
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Dr Van Vliet explains how standards of care are necessary to help those in the middle of the bell curve, and also to help us identify the outliers.
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This study shows that, if the intended goal of a fitting is to provide the patient with the gain and output of a validated prescriptive method, such as the NAL-NL2, then the dispensing professional cannot rely on the manufacturer’s software version of this algorithm. Real-ear verification is necessary.
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Audiologist Garry G. Gordon, owner of EAR Inc, discusses how to recognize and capitalize on opportunities for business and career success in hearing healthcare.
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The 19th Annual Mid-Atlantic Hearing Expo will be held March 12-14 at the Central Hotel & Conference Center in Harrisburg, Pa.
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“Make the Connection” was the theme of Elite Hearing Network (EHN) 2015 Business Summit held at the El Conquistador hotel in Puerto Rico from January 29-31.
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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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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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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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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 MoreThis 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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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, 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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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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