The new Welch Allyn MacroView Otoscope features a new LumiView clear ear speculum, with “four times the brightness through an adult speculum when compared to a standard ear speculum,” according to the company.
Every crisis has a silver lining and one of the clear front-runners during the COVID-19 pandemic is the increased use of virtual healthcare visits, says author Archelle Georgiou, MD. Telehealth for getting medical care over the Internet has been available for more than 20 years, but use of the technology was low until the pandemic severely restricted providers and patients from having face-to-face visits.
PureSound with ZeroDelay technology has been designed to shorten hearing aid processing delays to less than 0.5 ms across frequencies and therefore greatly enhance the sound quality, particularly for large-vent or open fittings—fittings that can reduce the effectiveness of directional microphones. This study shows the PureSound program on the MOMENT hearing aid is as effective as the premium products of two other manufacturers for managing speech understanding in noise at realistic SNRs.
As local and state governments work to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus by ordering non-essential services to close their doors, hearing care providers have been caught in a gray area, which has reduced access to care for people with hearing loss.
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With Phonak Remote Support, VA audiologists can now extend care beyond the walls of their clinics to patients who are social distancing, have mobility challenges, or to those who prefer virtual follow-up sessions.
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How can we track auditory ecology in hearing aid use? This pilot study pilot study by Danielle Glista, PhD, and her colleagues from Western and Wilfrid Laurier Universities and Unitron Canada looks at the various forms of big-data collection and analysis for increasing the performance of hearing aids.
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Oticon RemoteCare “expands the potential for VA audiologists to assist more veterans remotely, helping them to meet vital hearing healthcare needs when in-person appointments cannot take place or when veterans are unable to travel to the office.”
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This new telehealth technology is comprised of a suite of Phonak eSolutions featuring online hearing testing as well as real-time remote hearing aid fitting, programming, and fine-tuning.
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During a crisis, it’s more important than ever that people stay connected. Hearing healthcare professionals must adapt to a world with Covid-19. They must begin to provide care in a different, but responsible, way.
Read MoreUS hearing aid unit sales dropped off the table after the first week of March. However, even with the “Great Lockdown,” first-quarter US hearing aid unit sales still came in about 1% above the same period last year, according to HIA statistics.
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The technology helps allow hearing care professionals to offer complete hearing care remotely, including hearing assessment and hearing aid fitting.
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The Academy of Doctors of Audiology (ADA) has published guidelines for telehealth procedures that can be provided with existing technologies—such as hearing aid checks and examinations—as well as those that will require special equipment or technology, like pure-tone audiometry and diagnostic analysis of cochlear implants.
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The newest generation of this remote programming capability for hearing healthcare practitioners means that more patients worldwide who use Starkey’s Thrive mobile app will be able to receive care from their homes.
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The new telehealth solution helps expand the potential for hearing care professionals to assist more patients remotely, even when a face-to-face appointment would normally be the most appropriate way to provide care.
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Hearing healthcare professionals across the country are in a tough spot regarding how they should operate their practices during the punishing Covid-19 pandemic. David Smriga provides his perspectives and advice about the question, “Is hearing healthcare an ‘essential service’?”
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These measures include accelerating the delivery of Phonak eSolutions while increasing service offerings for professionals and patients. Also announced is the creation of a COVID-19 Info Hub for all hearing care professionals.
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A new YouTube video, “COVID-19 Response: Telehealth Resources for Audiologists,” posted by Lively offers practical tips and advice for hearing care professionals who are interested in using teleaudiology in their practices.
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The benefits are said to include enhancements to client counseling, real-ear measurement, bone-anchored hearing device (BAHD) verification, and test-box verification.
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