The IHS Board of Governors have named Alissa Parady as executive director of IHS. Formerly the IHS Director of Government and Chapter Affairs, Parady will work closely with the IHS Board to execute their strategic initiatives to the benefit of the hearing healthcare professionals who comprise IHS membership.
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What do the recent mergers and acquisitions (M&As) of hearing care dispensing networks mean for private practice audiologists and hearing aid specialists?
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The HLAA has been busy working with the FDA, FTC, FCC, HHS, NIDCD, CTA, and the various professional and industry groups in hearing healthcare on virtually everything related to hearing and access issues.
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The American Academy of Audiology (AAA) 2022 Convention in St Louis attracted about 2,200 people for four days of excellent learning opportunies, networking, and fun. Academy leaders are urging members to become more involved in this era of rapid change.
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Nuheara Limited (ASX:NUH) (Company or Nuheara) announced that it has taken the final step in its plans to secure US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for its self-fitting hearing aid by providing its 510(k) submission to the FDA.
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Why person-centered care is the answer to OTC hearing aids…and much more.
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Specific Signia hearing aids that will be spotlighted at the show include the Signia Insio Charge&Go AX, the “world’s first custom hearing aid with contactless charging and streaming to iOS and Android,” and Signia Pure Charge&Go T AX, the company’s “smallest receiver-in-canal hearing aid to date” that comes standard with telecoil.
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WS Audiology, the parent company of Signia and Widex, has postponed its plans to submit its subsidiary, Hear.com, for an IPO “due to current challenging equity market conditions.”
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Mergers and acquisitions came back strong in 2021 after the pandemic, and M&As have started strong in 2022.
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Under the terms of the agreement, Altaris will acquire all outstanding shares of Intricon for $24.25 per share in a transaction that values Intricon at an equity value of approximately $241 million. The purchase price represents a meaningful premium of approximately 39% to Intricon’s closing stock price on February 25, 2022.
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This 3-part series is a high-level review of the data that has accumulated across more than 10 years of clinical research with the technology at the heart of the Earlens system. In Part 1, we dove into the speech understanding data to demonstrate how increasing the audible bandwidth of processed sound results in improved speech understanding performance from several perspectives. In Part 2, we discussed the perceptual benefits to naturalness and overall sound quality. Finally, in Part 3, we’ll deep dive into the restoration of audibility and how the Earlens approach to overall audibility improvement is reliably achieved in fittings via direct drive—as well as who may benefit from this.
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Beltone announced the upcoming availability of the Jabra Enhance Plus earbuds that will bring “hearing enhancement in a sleek design to help address the hearing needs of those with mild-to-moderate hearing loss” starting February 25 at select Beltone Hearing Care Centers nationwide.
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This latest innovation offers “powerful hearing aids that provide clarity in sound and convenient hands-free phone and FaceTime calls from iPhone and iPad,” according to the company.
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GN announced availability of the “first-of-its-kind innovative Jabra Enhance Plus earbuds engineered for hearing enhancement” in the US on February 25.
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A statement from Starkey President Brandon Sawalich addresses President Biden’s announcement about the White House Competition Council, which was established by the July 2021 Promoting Competition in the American Economy executive order advancing US economic competition.
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