Survey of UK Audiologists Highlights Key Challenges in Hearing Care
The BIHIMA shared initial findings from its 2024/2025 Audiologist Survey, revealing critical issues affecting hearing care professionals.
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Empower Conference 2021 Announces Call for Papers
The Your Hearing Network conference was established as an opportunity for all hearing care providers to learn, engage, and stay current in the hearing healthcare business, and succeed in offering an impressive and diverse variety of learning sessions.
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US Hearing Aid Sales Fall by 59% in Second Quarter 2020
According to statistics generated by the Hearing Industries Association (HIA), US hearing aid net unit sales decreased by 58.6% in the second quarter of 2020 due to the negative effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and mass shutdowns during March through May.
A Skin Cancer Screening Model for Hearing Care Professionals
Screening a patient for potential skin cancer lesions and referring patients to a medical professional, when warranted, can result in a life-saving intervention. Here’s how to do it.
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Online Tools Help Patients Self-manage Hearing Loss
Based on principles of person-centered care, a new suite of online tools engage people in the self-management of their hearing loss and help structure the conversation between clients and hearing care professionals. The tools provide patients with strategies for everyday life with hearing loss and prepare them for their first appointment and follow-up.
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Happy Holidays: 5 Free Webinars on Hearing Care
The Hearing Review posts its December 2016 list of free webinars, sponsored by CareCredit, which are now available on demand here at HearingReview.com. The webinars are for hearing care professionals, private practice owners, and others in the hearing healthcare industry.
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Sonic Sound Studio Sets Stage for More Customized Fittings
The new Sound Studio from Sonic is a sound player tool for fitting and verification supported in EXPRESSfit 2016.1 fitting software. Sound Studio creates sound scenes that enable hearing care professionals to set the stage for more customized fittings and greater patient satisfaction.
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Staff Standpoint: Diversifying Offerings; Emphasizing Expertise
Editor Karl Strom explains how the October 2016 edition of The Hearing Review, guest-edited by Brian Taylor, AuD, outlines for hearing healthcare professionals a clear path to a more prominent position in the future of general healthcare as the hearing care market undergoes rapid changes.
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What Hearing Care Professionals Need to Know About Today’s Healthcare Economics
Hearing care professionals will be increasingly involved in general healthcare and working more closely with doctors as healthcare economics change how primary care physicians are compensated by insurers.
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Interventional Audiology Services: Meeting the Demands of Today’s Consumer
In the October 2016 edition of The Hearing Review, Guest Editor Brian Taylor, AuD, outlines how offering interventional audiology services is a way forward for hearing healthcare professionals who wish to innovate and improve the industry.
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FDA Clears Madsen Zodiac for Immittance Testing
GN Otometrics and Audiology Systems announced that the MADSEN® Zodiac—a new immittance testing solution—was cleared by the FDA. Zodiac was developed with a special focus on the probes to bring greater control, confidence, and efficiency to immittance testing.
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Automatic Feature Steering and Adaptation for Seamless Listening Experiences
The author discusses how, in addition to faster processing than previous Phonak automatic steering systems, AutoSense OS can quickly detect the acoustic environment in real-time, and seamlessly adjust nuanced algorithms in the hearing aid accordingly.
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Steering Into the Winds of Change, Part 3: Discovering Your Patient’s “Why”
Using The Discovery Conversation can improve your in-clinic success. It focuses on creating an emotional connection with clients by asking questions that uncover their personal story around how not hearing well impacts them during important situations in their life.
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The Tinnitus Toolbox Guide to Support the Full Patient Journey
Hearing care professionals need to be able to recognize which tools in their tinnitus toolbox to utilize on a patient-by-patient basis, and also to be aware of research, to help make navigation of the treatment process easier for both clinician and patient.
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Are Hearing Care Professionals ‘Future-Ready’?
Telehealth, self-adjusting hearing aids, PSAPs, running a sustainable audiology practice. . . these trends are already influencing the future of hearing care. Ida Institute asks: As a hearing care professional, are you future-ready?
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Back to Basics: Linguistics 101 for Hearing Healthcare Professionals
The Speech Intelligibility Index (or SII) shows some interesting characteristics. The difference between 340 Hz and 3,400 Hz (coincidentally the bandwidth of the telephone) is fairly similar for continuous discourse, whereas there is a high frequency bias for nonsense syllables. That is, whenever there is a context to speech, there is a greater reliance on lower frequency sounds.
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Happy Holidays from HR: 8 Free Webinars, Now Available on Demand
This month, Hearing Review posts a list of its 8 webinars for hearing care professionals from 2015. Seasonally timed as HR’s “Happy Holidays” message, these free webinars are intended to serve as helpful resources for HR readers as they gear up for a successful 2016.
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Auditdata and Sycle Introduce Hardware-as-a-Service Concept
A new Hardware-as-a-Service (H-a-a-S) concept, created through a collaboration between Auditdata and Sycle, is designed to provide hearing care professionals the opportunity to obtain the newest audiometers and fitting equipment at a fixed monthly fee.
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