Thomas Balkany, MD, First Recipient of Noel L. Cohen Award from American Neurotology Society
The ANS created the Noel L. Cohen Award for Significant Contributions to Otology and Neurotology to honor Dr Cohen’s legacy and life’s work.
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Cochlear Launches ‘Hearing 20/20’ Campaign
According to Cochlear, the campaign is supported by 10 hearing health nonprofit and industry partners, and establishes a simple, common metric—defined as 20 decibels in each ear—to help simplify the ongoing conversation and actions related to monitoring hearing health and treating hearing loss, especially among adults 55 years of age and older.
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UnitedHealthCare Launches 2021 Medicare Advantage Plans
UnitedHealthcare announced the launch of its 2021 Medicare Advantage and prescription drug plans, showcasing “affordable coverage, exclusive benefits, expanded plan access, and a simplified member experience that connects people to quality care— when and where they need it.”
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Answering Patients’ Questions About Hearing Aid Costs—and Providing Solutions
With the abundance of online and Big Box offerings, questions about the price of hearing aids are more pointed than ever. Here is a look at how some hearing care professionals are dealing with this issue.
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What’s Going On? More Loops and Fewer Telecoils
Back in 2017, listings in the “Consumer’s Guide to Hearing Aids” indicated that 83% of the hearing aids capable of containing them had or could be fitted with telecoils. The figure for the “2020 Guide” has shrunk to 75%, but that is not a completely accurate picture of the situation.
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How to Differentiate Your Patient Care with 5 Best Practices
Audiologists and other hearing care providers are rapidly finding themselves in an era of “self-serve” hearing care. These new times afford us all an opportunity to examine how we practice and begin to incorporate improved means of addressing the hearing needs of our patients.
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Blog: Sound Quality as a Tipping Point for the Younger, Milder Hearing Loss Market
Exceptional sound quality—above all the other “bells and whistles” that the latest generation of hearing aids provide (eg, connectivity, remote fine-tuning, hands-free phone calls, motion-sensors and tap controls, virtual assistants, etc)—may turn out to be THE final hurdle for convincing younger people with milder hearing losses to purchase a hearing aid.
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Auditory Insight Research Shows Online Hearing Tests May Not Encourage People to Seek Treatment with Hearing Aids
Hearing aid companies report that patient usage of online hearing tests has increased by as much as 500% since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in late March 2020.
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E.A.R. Inc and Robert Traynor Audiology to Offer Training Seminar for Industrial and Recreational Hearing Market
The seminar presents how to corner the market on a new group of patients including hunters, shooters, musicians, law enforcement, motorcyclists, farmers, ranchers, dental, construction workers, pilots, and industrial workers.
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GN Hearing Launches ReSound ONE Hearing Aid
This solution places an additional microphone inside the ear canal, “for the first time, allowing people relying on hearing aids to experience the world with their own ears while preserving the comfort of an open-fit device.”
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Maintaining Consumer Protections for All Hearing Aids
Three years ago on August 18, 2017, what has become known as the “OTC Hearing Aid Act” was signed into law, and we’ve now reached the statutory deadline for proposed rules for this new class of hearing aid. Although FDA is obviously focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, the complexities of federal preemption of state laws related to hearing aids also loom large. To ensure strong consumer protections, HIA conducted exhaustive research of hearing aid laws in the 50 states, identifying five primary areas of consumer protection to flag for FDA.
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‘Forbes’ Article Cites Benefits of COVID-19 for Hearables Market
A spokesperson for the FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health has said that it’s likely that the deadline for the release of guidelines on the “OTC Hearing Aid Act” may be pushed back due to the coronavirus, according to Forbes.
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How to Use Teleaudiology Technologies in a New Setup or in an Existing Office
A large selection of teleaudiology solutions now exist that provides greater practice efficiencies and much higher levels of outreach and accessibility for your patients—and for other consumers who should be your patients. Here is just a brief sampling of some of the options for enhancing your teleaudiology capabilities.
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An Interview with Michael Valente, PhD: Considerations after 45 Years in Audiology
On July 31st, Michael Valente will retire after 45 years in audiology and 34 years at Washington University. In this article, Douglas Beck conducts an “exit interview” with one of our most distinguished clinician-researchers about his journey in the profession, the Best Practices documents which he spearheaded, OTC devices, and the future of hearing healthcare.
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HHTM Announces Inaugural ‘Hearing Technology Innovator Awards’ Program
Through the annual Hearing Technology Innovator Awards, HHTM will honor technological innovation and achievement in the hearing industry.
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