A licensed hearing aid dispenser and owner of Syracuse Hearing Aid Centers in New York was recently arrested on charges that he operated a criminal scheme in his insurance billing practices. According to reports, the business fraudulently billed more than $1.6 million by selling public employees custom fit earbuds, then billing the state insurance for hearing aids.
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Plural Publishing announced the publication of a new book, Tinnitus: Clinical and Research Perspectives, which summarizes findings from basic and clinical research regarding tinnitus mechanisms, effects, and interventions. The text features international authors, clinicians, and researchers.
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A recent study assessed the capability of Phonak AutoSense OS to provide optimal and preferable listening in three complex, real-life listening environments: 1) A highly echoic room with presentation of speech from behind and noise interference, 2) a running car, and 3) a busy coffee shop. The findings suggest that AutoSense OS not only provides significantly greater ease of use than a manual program, but can also provide optimal hearing in challenging, realistic listening environments.
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Save the date: The 14th International Conference on Cochlear Implants and Other Implantable Technologies (CI2016) is May 11-14, 2016, in Toronto, ON, Canada. CI2016 features speakers and international podium and poster sessions on research of cochlear implants and other implantable technologies across the age continuum.
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Dr Chasin discusses how most audiologists (himself included) tend to sweat upon hearing the word “impedance.” Although “admittance” is a much less nuanced word, it can be just as scary. Most audiologists and hearing care professionals would rather hear about the phrase “equivalent volume.”
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Penn State acoustical engineers have used functional MRI scans, which measure brain activity by sensing changes in blood flow in the brain, to better understand our emotional responses to sound reverberation and room acoustics.
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The Hear the World Foundation has released a newly completed 2016 calendar featuring star portraits, which will be available this holiday season as gifts for a good cause. The Hear the World 2016 Calendar is a powerful collection of shots photographed by Canadian singer Bryan Adams.
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At EUHA 2015, held October 14-16, 2015 in Nuremberg, Germany, Sivantos presented three new families of Siemens hearing aids in the Essential segment. The Intuis 2, Sirion 2, and Orion 2 product series are all equipped with a range of current technologies. They can be remotely controlled depending on the model–also via free apps for Apple and android smartphones–and can be connected to modern communication and consumer electronics.
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Sonic released its Cheer hearing aids in three technology levels plus new power instruments to accommodate a range of hearing loss needs and preferences. Cheer aids have features that improve sound performance built on Sonic’s Speech Variable Processing platform. Many Cheer models include wireless connectivity as a standard feature.
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The UNIQUE, a new hearing aid from Widex, is designed to provide effortless hearing by addressing the nuances hearing aids need to capture and process for patients’ unique, individualized listening needs.
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The authors take issue with recent reports about the performance of Musicians Earplugs, and show that the ways in which data were graphically displayed explain the differences in interpretation.
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In the last several years, technologies have become available that have shifted up the maximum input that can be digitized through an A/D converter to over 110 dB SPL. One element—the final element—remains when optimizing a hearing aid for music, and it is surprisingly very “low tech” — a single-channel hearing aid. Dr Chasin discusses its merits for music.
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The European Union of Hearing Aid Acousticians (EUHA) will host its 60th annual convention in Nuremberg, Germany, on October 14-16.
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GN ReSound headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark announced the global launch of ReSound Enya hearing aids with features and wireless technologies that were previously only available at higher price points, but are now available in lower-priced solutions. Users can stream sound from the TV, mobile phone or music player directly to ReSound Enya hearing aids with ReSound Unite wireless accessories, and use a smartphone to control the hearing aid volume and program settings.
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The HyperSound system is designed to reproduce sound in a confined, narrow beam to a targeted area for situations like listening to a teacher in a classroom or to the TV at home. This field study suggests that, by making a directed audio solution part of a broader portfolio of intervention options, hearing care practices have an opportunity to meet the needs of more patients with hearing loss.
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