OTC Hearing Aids: Access, Affordability, and Advancements
The availability of OTC hearing aids caused changes in the hearing health landscape, including wider awareness and acceptance.
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FDA Proposed Rules for OTC Hearing Aids Extend Beyond OTC
The 114-page rules document published today in the Federal Register covers most aspects related to OTC hearing aid manufacturing, electroacoustic requirements, packaging and labeling, returns, and conditions for sale. In an effort to promote more consistency in the regulations and enforcement of hearing aid manufacturing and distribution, the FDA is also proposing several important changes that could affect the industry and state-wide hearing aid dispensing.
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Trends in the Aging Population—Economics and Hearing Aid Affordability
While financing is increasingly making an impact, too many consumers are still unaware of the many ill effects of poor hearing. HR sat down with Dr Brian Taylor to get an idea of the level of knowledge within the general public, and what can be done to improve the situation.
Perspectives on Paying for Hearing Aids and Audiological Services
Increasingly, consumers would rather pay for expensive goods and services with a series of loans, so they can stick to their budget and easily see what they owe. One may be for hearing aids, another for the car, making it easy to see how much money is going out. Many of these loans are low-interest and some may even be no-interest, ultimately adding value to the hearing care practice and potentially attracting many more patients.
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British Government Offers BSL Interpreters to Coronavirus Benefit Claimants
BSL users can now access Universal Credit through a video relay service provided by the Department for Work and Pensions. The move will support many of the 87,000 deaf BSL users currently living in the UK.
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Phonak ABCs of eAudiology #3: 10 Steps to Clinical Applications & Providing Feedback for eAudiology
When conducted via eAudiology, effective communication between hearing care practitioners and patients and their significant others is dependent on both technical and interpersonal factors.
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RIT Researchers Study Changes in Nicaraguan Sign Language over Four Decades
They are asking whether languages change so they are easier to produce, or whether they change in ways that make them easier for others to understand. Initial results challenge a long held notion that signs move toward the face in order to be easier to understand.
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Starkey Livio AI Wins ‘2019 CES Innovation’ Award for Accessibility
Livio AI interfaces with a brand-new mobile app — Thrive™ Hearing and three new wireless accessories—the Starkey Hearing Technologies TV, the Remote, and the Remote Microphone +.
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HIA Stresses to FDA Importance of Hearing Professional, Regulation
The HIA submitted a comprehensive Addendum on June 30, 2016 to the FDA in response to questions the Agency posed in its April 21, 2016 Workshop regarding hearing healthcare and devices in the US.
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FDA Releases Agenda for April 21 Workshop on Regulations
Updated: The FDA has released the agenda for its April 21, 2016 workshop on “Streamlining Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) for Hearing Aids,” which can be viewed via FDA webcast. Dave Fabry, PhD, of Starkey will represent HIA on a panel that examines quality standards.
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Staff Standpoint: The Invisible Hand
The fourth quarter (Q4) of 2015 marked strong growth for the private sector, with an 8.2% increase in sales compared to Q4 2014. The VA increased its dispensing activity by 2.3%. Total hearing aid unit sales grew by 7.0% in Q4 2015. What is not known is how much private sector growth can be attributed to the market gains of low-cost retailers like Costco.
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Institute of Medicine’s 3rd Meeting on Accessible and Affordable Hearing Care
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) and its Committee on Accessible and Affordable Hearing Health Care for Adults will hold its third of three public workshops on Thursday, September 10 at the Keck Center of The National Academies in Washington, DC. Remote registration is available.
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Tuesday: Institute of Medicine’s 2nd Meeting on Accessible and Affordable Hearing Care
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) and its Committee on Accessible and Affordable Hearing Health Care for Adults will hold its second of three public meetings on Tuesday, June 30. The IOM meetings will culminate in a consensus report that may provide context for future top-down governmental responses and influence decisions related to affordability and accessibility of hearing aids, PSAPs, tinnitus devices, and hearing care services.
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