ADM Tronics’ Tinnitus Technology Featured in OneMedMarket Newsletter
Both ADM’s technologies for the tinnitus marketplace, Tinnitus Shield and Aurex-3, are described in the article.
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Some PSAPs Show Improvements in Hearing Similar to Hearing Aids, Says JAMA Study
Three of the PSAPs were associated with improvements in speech understanding that were similar to results obtained with the hearing aid; one demonstrated little improvement; and speech understanding was worse with one PSAP.
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Loyalty Marketing Strategies in Hearing Health Care
Loyalty marketing refers to building trust among current customers and rewarding them for consistently conducting business with a company, so that they will continue to do so.
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Hearing Aid Sales Return to Industry Norms in H1 2017
Total US unit sales increased by 3.4% and 2.3% in the first two quarters of 2017, making for a total unit sales increase of 2.8% in the first half of 2017 compared to the same period last year—or a total of 1.87 million hearing aids sold.
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ADM Tronics Announces Growth Strategy After 2017 Fiscal Year Results
This financial progress reportedly enables the company to initiate its planned redefinition of its business growth strategy, concentrating the scope of its activities as a medical technology innovator, specializing in the design, development, and production of its own suite of proprietary therapeutic and diagnostic medical devices.
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Brian Taylor Joins Fuel Medical as a Director of Clinical Audiology
In his new role, Taylor will work with Director of Professional Development, Jim Fedio, and Director of Managed Care, Dan Quall, to create efficiencies for patient management and profits for hearing health providers.
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Southwestern Hearing Centers Awarded Top Workplace Honor from ‘St Louis Post Dispatch’
For the second year in a row, Southwestern Hearing was the only hearing aid company in America to be honored, placing 30th in the small business category.
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iHEAR Medical Launches Eva Hearing Aid for Women
Eva’s sound processing is tailored to treat distinct hearing loss patterns experienced by women. Loud sounds above 85 dB are reduced for a comfortable listening experience in noisy settings.
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Some Turbulent Seas Ahead…
This month’s cover is meant to depict the turmoil that our industry finds itself in, as disruptive technology threatens to change some long-standing rules about hearing aid distribution and over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids move a step closer to reality.
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Cooperative Prevention of an Industry’s Decline: Heeding Best Practices
The bottom line is that benefit with a hearing instrument can and should be measured, assessed, adjusted, and documented to achieve maximum performance capabilities for all patients.
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HLAA Announces Support for Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act of 2017
The Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) is in full support of the bill and has issued an Action Alert to encourage consumers—especially those affected by hearing loss—to take action by writing to their senators and congressmen to vote in support of this groundbreaking legislation.
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Staff Standpoint: It Should Be an Interesting Month!
It appears that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is preparing to tender some draft form of a classification for over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids very soon—quite possibly at the June 9 National Academies’ Hearing Health Care Report Dissemination Meeting.
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HIA Reasserts Position on Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids
The Hearing Industries Association (HIA)—the national trade association for manufacturers of hearing aids—believes that if the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) creates an Over-the-Counter (OTC) hearing aid category as required by legislation now under consideration in Congress (S.670/H.R.1652), such medical devices should meet the same FDA standards as existing hearing aids and should be offered only to people with mild hearing loss, HIA announced.
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“Whattage”: A Hypothetical Construct in Hearing Healthcare
“Whattage” represents the frequency with which a listener uses “What?”, cognate words, or behaviors that prompt repetitions by a communicatively significant other. The concept of “Whattage” has broad implications for marketing the value of hearing correction to the general public, as well as individual members of the communicative dyad.
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Researchers Listen to Zebrafish to Understand Human Hearing Loss
Can a fish with a malformed jaw tell us something about hearing loss in mice and humans? The answer is yes, according to a new publication in ‘Scientific Reports.’
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