Two Questions to Ask Every Patient Before Fitting Hearing Aids
This article explores the questions HCPs can ask early within every hearing aid consultation to increase patient adherence to recommendations and reduce returns.
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SafKan Health Partners with Signia on OtoSet Ear Cleaning System
SafKan Health announced its partnership with the hearing aid company Signia, to make the OtoSet Ear Cleaning System available through Signia Aspire.
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Hillrom Launches Welch Allyn MacroView Plus Otoscope
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.
The Age of Telehealth
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.
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Empowering the Wearer: AI-based Signia Assistant Allows Individualized Hearing Care
Results of this study show the Signia Assistant smartphone app ensures the end-user safely gets the best possible solution for any given situation, marking an important step in going from assumption-based to data-driven knowledge—and moving away from a “one-size-fits-all approach” to precisely tuned hearing for each individual via artificial intelligence.
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Widex MOMENT Hearing Aids Now Available
Widex has announced the availability of its new WIDEX MOMENT™ hearing aid, which is designed to offer the industry’s most natural hearing experience by combining the latest in AI and machine learning with two ultra-fast signal pathways.
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USF Audiologists Use Face View Mask to Better Communicate with Patients
The Face View Masks have been generously made by the audiologists and their family members, audiology students, and the community organization, Tampa Gems Sertoma Club.
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HR Webinar “Hearing Healthcare in the Era of Covid-19” Now Available On-Demand
A new webinar featuring Drs Douglas Beck and Clifford Olson addresses how Covid-19 is changing hearing healthcare private practice and the hearing industry. The webinar, recorded on Friday, June 19, 2020, is now available on demand.
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Interacoustics Academy to Host Webinar Series July 13-16
Interacoustics Academy announced a live, online learning event dedicated towards trends in pediatric assessment and hearing aid fitting to take place on July 13-16, 2020. The event will be hosted as an online classroom environment, consisting of video presentations, software demonstrations, and Q&A sessions.
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Results of the Covid-19 Impact Survey #3 (May 13-22) for Hearing Healthcare Practices
Hearing healthcare practices made good progress toward recovery in May and look to do significantly better in June, according to results from The Hearing Review’s third survey that looks at the impact of the coronavirus on our field.
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Efficacy of Directional Microphones in Open Fittings Under Realistic Signal-to-Noise Ratios Using Widex MOMENT Hearing Aids
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.
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Lantos Launches Storefront E-Commerce Portal for Custom-fit Hearing Products
Products currently available cover sleep assistance, personal audio, professional audio, work safety, recreation & sport safety, and hunting & outdoor.
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‘NPR’ Article Explores Safety of Preventative Care Visits
The consensus, according to the article, seems to be that doctors or dentists that are accepting patients are likely to be taking greater precautions—such as deep cleaning, wearing masks and protective equipment, and temperature checks— than normal to protect patients and staff.
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MedPB Webinar: Good News about COVID You’ll Want to Hear
To help you get the practical information you need to speed the recovery of your practice, on Tuesday, June 9, MedPB is hosting a webinar that pulls in top experts to walk you through what you need to know and do to put together your 90-day recovery plan.
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Koalys Launches Home Audiology Solution
Koalys Comfort is a home audiology platform which provides streamlined tele-consultation, remote diagnostic, and fitting capabilities.
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Signia Launches Remote Care
Remote Care from Signia meets “an immediate need among HCPs for a complete and comprehensive way to help their patients remotely.”
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Signia TeleCare Now Available to HCPs Treating Veterans
TeleCare helps enable HCPs to connect via phone, video, or text-based chats with their patients, discuss their success or challenges, and make any necessary adjustments in real time, according to the company.
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Starkey Creates Resource Page for Hearing Care Providers During COVID-19
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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