What Does it Mean When Earbuds Are Hearing Aids?
With the first FDA authorization for OTC hearing aid software, what does hearing aid functionality inside earbuds mean for audiology and HCPs?
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Trends in Hearing Aid Styles
This month we’ll look at US hearing aid style preferences and selection trends, as reported in Hearing Industries Association (HIA) historical statistics, along with estimates by “The Hearing Review.”
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Audiology Rankings and Workforce
On July 12, the “US News & World Report MONEY” website ranked Audiology as the 29th best healthcare job—dead last on this particular list of 29 healthcare professions.
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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OTC: Let’s Get on the Same Page!
Now that we’ve defined (at minimum) what an OTC hearing device should look like, maybe it’s time to start defining a minimal standard for what a professional hearing aid fitting should look like.
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IHS, ADA, ASHA, EUHA: Showtime
Advocacy and involvement on behalf of your profession can be as important as updating your clinical skills, should one day you awaken to find that you do not have the appropriate professional representation for your profession.
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Depression and Hearing Loss
Depression and its connection to hearing loss seems pretty logical and self-evident, especially if you’re a dispensing professional who experiences daily the difference that amplification can make in a person’s life. However, new research indicates the story is far more complex.
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Beyond the Ears
Audiology and neuroscience have the potential to radically change the future of healthcare.
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Industry Consolidation, Act 2?
It’s possible we will see more major M&As and “Industry Consolidation, Act 2” in the next several years.
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Keep Building Your Business
Those practices with larger gross revenues have the critical mass to leverage their advantages in an increasingly competitive market.
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Staff Standpoint: Hearing Aid Sales Increase by 3.4% in 2017
Hearing aid net unit sales in the United States grew by 3.4% in 2017, with a 4.0% growth rate for the commercial/private sector and 0.92% for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), according to statistics generated by the Hearing Industries Assn (HIA), Washington, DC.
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Staff Standpoint: Editor’s Picks: Best Features 2017
It was a wild year, but that’s good in the publishing world because there was never a lack of great information.
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Staff Standpoint: Hearing Aid Sales in Q3 2017 on Low Side of Normal
In the third quarter of 2017, private sector unit sales of hearing aids increased by 2.8%, VA dispensing fell by 1.3%, and the total market gained 2.0% in unit volume compared to the same period last year.
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Staff Standpoint: OTC Debate Moves on to FDA, FTC…and States?
The debate now moves from “if” an OTC class of hearing devices should exist to “what” that OTC class will look like.
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Staff Standpoint: Hearing Aid Sales Return to Industry Norms in H1 2017
Statistics generated by the Hearing Industries Association (HIA), Washington, DC, indicate that US hearing aid sales in 2017 have returned to levels more in line with the industry’s historical norms of 2-4%.
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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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Staff Standpoint: OTC Hearing Aid Debate Revisited
The merits, drawbacks, and risks associated with over-the-counter (OTC) and mail-order hearing aids and personal sound amplification products (PSAPs) have been debated in earnest for at least three decades—and new research and information continues to shed light on this important topic.
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Staff Standpoint: NAS Presents Great Opportunity
A Dissemination Meeting held by the National Academies of Sciences (NAS) facilitated discussion on strategies for improving hearing healthcare access and affordability, and identifying needs, barriers, and opportunities. The meeting also was a brainstorming session for how stakeholders could collaborate, particularly on recommendations that have acquired general consensus.
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