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A Market in Metamorphosis |
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by Charlie Whelan |
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Hearing health care is undergoing transformations on many levels. This article, which summarizes results of Frost & Sullivan’s recent report on the hearing industry, looks at how manufacturer and dispenser office consolidation, information technologies and changing demographics will all contribute to reshaping the industry and the practices of dispensing professionals. |
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Lunch & Learn: Private Practice Marketing to Physicians |
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by Mark J. Sanford, MS, & Beth Kiekhaefer, MS |
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Sixty-three percent of people who have hearing loss say that their primary care physician is their most important source of information about where to go for hearing health care services. An outline is presented on a program designed to help inform medical personnel about the importance of your hearing health care services and the need for screening patients. |
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Testing Digital and Analog Hearing Instruments: Processing Time Delays and Phase Measurements |
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by George Frye |
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Delay and phase problems could be one of the “invisible” differences between patient satisfaction with hearing instruments and rejection of amplification. |
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Directional Hearing Instrument Buyer's Guide |
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A round-up of the latest directional products and technologies. |
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Design of a Directional Half-Shell Hearing Aid |
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by Oleg Saltykov, MS |
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Tech Topic: A look at the engineering process behind the Siemens HS VoiceMic. |
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Effects of Microphone Mismatch in Directional Hearing Instruments |
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by Jürgen Tchorz, PhD |
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The effect of age-related microphone drift appears to be limited. However, data indicate that dirt in the acoustic pathway can have a strong impact on directivity and speech intelligibility in noise. |
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Hereditary Hearing Loss and Connexin |
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by Dennis Hampton, PhD |
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A review of research on Connexin 26 relative to genetic testing. |
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How Academic Can You Be About Hearing Loss and Deafness? |
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by Roddy Cowie, PhD, with an introduction by Geoff Plant |
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A summary of 20 years of psychological research on people with profound hearing loss. |
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