Olive Union Launches Olive Pro Hearable
Olive Pro helps customizes your hearing by “optimizing audio frequencies to your sound profile, while automatically cancelling background noises and feedback.”
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Oticon Shifts Brand Identity to ‘Life-Changing Technology’: An Interview with Gary Rosenblum
Oticon is changing its brand message—but not its philosophy. Earlier this year, the company announced the change of its longtime “People First” branding to “Life-Changing Technology.”
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Battle Big Box and Online by Honing Practice Strengths and Offering Options
Big box hearing aid sales are estimated to make up more than 14% of US sales, and OTC hearing aid regulations are now expected to be in place by at least the second quarter of 2021. Here are some tips for how to compete with and differentiate your practice against these competitors.
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Whisper: A New Subscription Hearing Aid with Big Brains for Hearing Care
Whisper may have a quiet name, but it could reverberate loudly in the hearing healthcare industry. Launched by an impressive group of AI, Silicon Valley, and hearing care executives, Whisper features an external brain for the dedicated processing of sound, a subscription-based system, and regular software-based upgrades for consumers.
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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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