The PMP Strategy for Maximizing Profit in Your Practice: Plan, Monitor, and Push
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CEDRA: A Consumer Questionnaire to Detect Disease Risk Before Hearing Aid Purchase
To maintain consumer safety while dispensing hearing aids and other hearing amplification devices when licensed providers are not involved, a multidisciplinary research team developed the Consumer Ear Disease Risk Assessment (CEDRA) questionnaire, which is designed to identify the risk of diseases with ear and hearing symptoms.
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InnerScope Signs Lease for Hearing Aid Retail Clinic in California
The opening of the Sac Clinic, dba Value Audiology & Hearing Aid Center, is part of InnerScope’s 6-12 month Northern California Audiological Clinic Expansion Plan.
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FDA Announces Revamping of Product Approvals and 510(k) Program
The FDA has announced it will be modernizing its 510(k) clearance pathway, which accounts for the majority of devices that the Agency reviews, in what it characterizes as a “generational change.” Specifically, the Agency says it will concentrate on more recent predicates and technological advances in its future decision-making process, and ramp up its post-market surveillance of products.
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CEDRA: A Consumer Questionnaire to Detect Disease Risk Before Hearing Aid Purchase
To maintain consumer safety while dispensing hearing aids and other amplification devices when licensed providers are not involved, a multidisciplinary research team developed the Consumer Ear Disease Risk Assessment (CEDRA) questionnaire, which is designed to identify the risk of diseases with ear and hearing symptoms. Noted researcher Donald Nielsen, PhD, explains its development and how the self-administered test can be used online for free.
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Will Hearing Aid Sales Top 4 Million Units in 2018?
According to HIA statistics, the US hearing aid market has experienced sales gains of 5.9% and may exceed 4 million hearing aid units dispensed by the end of 2018. Here’s a summary of the US hearing industry statistics through the third quarter of this year, including a look at the most-common styles of hearing aids sold.
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IntriCon Reports 20% Sales Gain in Third Quarter 2018
For the 2018 third quarter, the company reported net sales of $30.1 million, up 20.2% from $25.1 million in the prior-year period. According to the announcement, the increase was primarily due to year-over-year revenue gains from IntriCon’s largest medical customer and growth in its value-based hearing healthcare business.
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Staff Standpoint: Bose and Self-fitting Hearing Aids
On October 5, the FDA granted De Novo status to Bose Corporation for a self-fitting hearing aid for mild-to-moderate hearing loss.
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Atlazo Appoints Adnan Shennib President of Life Sciences
Shennib brings over 30 years of experience in healthcare innovations, starting his career in implantable cardiac pacing, and later taking leading roles with several hearing aid manufacturers including ReSound and InSound Medical, where he invented and developed the Lyric™ hearing device.
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ADA 2018 Convention Is “Bolder than Ever” in Orlando
The 2018 Academy of Doctors of Audiology (ADA) Convention had the theme, “Bolder than Ever,” and lived up to it with 3 days of excellent seminars and events in Orlando, Fla, on October 22-24.
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InnerScope Launches Zounds Hearing Aids on Walmart Website
The Zounds product portfolio featured on Walmart.com includes the Vizara, a 16-Channel digital rechargeable hearing system; the Prezia, a 16-Channel premium digital hearing aid, and the Hearing in a Box digital RIC hearing aid.
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Coupler and Real-Ear Performance between PSAPs and Hearing Aids
Before jumping to the conclusion that any PSAP and/or future OTC hearing device would be suitable for the many different types of hearing losses, we need to look at their coupler and real-ear performance data. This study by Adam Voss, Kristi Oeding, AU Bankaitis, John Pumford, and Michael Valente suggests current PSAPs are suitable for mild losses only.
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New Self-fitting Hearing Aid Class and Special Controls Described by FDA Letter
The FDA has concluded that the Bose Hearing Aid should be classified as a Class II device under the generic name “self-fitting air-conduction hearing aid,” according to an October 5 letter from the Agency. Accordingly, Bose is free to market the device immediately subject to general provisions and special controls required by FDA. Subsequent applications for a self-fitting hearing aid will need to undergo premarket notification requirements, according to the Agency.
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‘Bloomberg’ Reports Drop in Shares of Three Large Hearing Aid Companies
Shares of three large hearing aid companies—GN Store Nord A/S, William Demant Holding A/S, and Sonova Holding AG—dropped significantly on Monday, according to an article on ‘Bloomberg.’
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'Bloomberg' Reports Drop in Shares of Three Large Hearing Aid Companies
Shares of three large hearing aid companies—GN Store Nord A/S, William Demant Holding A/S, and Sonova Holding AG—dropped significantly on Monday, according to an article on ‘Bloomberg.’
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