HHTM Announces Public Voting Period for Hearing Technology Innovator Awards
Through the international awards program, HHTM honors technological innovation and achievement in the hearing industry.
Through the international awards program, HHTM honors technological innovation and achievement in the hearing industry.
In this short interview, Amyn Amlani, PhD, explains why hearing aid sales have been growing, and offers his perspectives on how OTC hearing aids and potential changes in Medicare could change adoption rates.
Amlani has joined the Audigy team to strengthen its footprint within audiology and the industry through audiology expertise and market knowledge in creating new hearing solutions, services, and partnerships.
The argument that a new FDA class of OTC hearing aids will dramatically expand the hearing healthcare market by making hearing aids more affordable is often taken as a “given.” However, research into what economists call “price elasticity”—or how much growth occurs in terms of market penetration when the cost of a product is reduced/increased—tend to suggest otherwise when it comes to hearing aids.
Read MoreThis study assessed the impact of REMs on consumer satisfaction as a service component during hearing aid fittings. For the SERVAL scale, overall results revealed that the REM protocol reduced emotional distress, and improved perceived quality of service and value of the fitting compared to the Quick-fit protocol in 3 groups of participants.
Read MoreIn this blog post, Drs Holly Hosford-Dunn and Amyn Amlani analyze the influence of price on the hearing aid market–specifically, the connection between price and hearing aid adoption rates.
Read MoreIn February letters to the Hearing Review editor, Mead Killion and Elliott Berger comment on some statements made by authors Kris Chesky and Amyn M. Amlani in their January 2016 HR article titled “UNT Develops New Approach for Assessing Musicians Earplugs.”
Read MoreAuthors Chesky and Amlani respond to a recent critique of their data by Killion and Haapapuro in the November 2015 Hearing Review, and provide support for their assertions that musicians earplugs lack “flatness” in frequency attenuation.
Read MoreA self-administered hearing test application could improve patient compliance by funneling self-motivated patients into the healthcare system already primed to succeed with amplification technology.
Read MoreCareCredit and The Hearing Review hosted a dinner on the eve of the AAA convention that highlighted the fast-paced changes in hearing healthcare and also posed some potential solutions for the future.
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