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Will Hearing Aid Sales Top 4 Million Units in 2018?
By Karl Strom, editor [Click on image to enlarge.] Quarterly US net unit hearing aid sales for the private/commercial (blue) and VA (red) markets, with year-on-year percentages for each and overall...
View ArticleGN Reports Strong 3rd Quarter Powered by Headset Division
GN Store Nord, Copenhagen, Denmark, issued its third quarter (Q3) 2018 corporate report, showing the company delivered 12% organic revenue growth and an EBITA margin increased to 18.0% as a function of...
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CEDRA: A Consumer Questionnaire to Detect Disease Risk Before Hearing Aid...
Patient Care | December 2018 Hearing Review By Donald W. Nielsen, PhD To maintain consumer safety while dispensing hearing aids and other hearing amplification devices when licensed providers are not...
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Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring: An Interview with Paul R....
Inside the Research | December 2018 Hearing Review By Douglas L. Beck, AuD Paul R. Kileny, PhD Paul R. Kileny, PhD, is a Professor of Otolaryngology and Director of Audiology and Electrophysiology at...
View ArticleNew CMS Revisions to Family of Codes for Reporting CROS/BiCROS Hearing Devices
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published significant revisions to the family of codes for reporting contralateral routing hearing devices, commonly known as CROS/BiCROS...
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Lessons from the Past: Two Influential Articles in the Early History of...
Research | December 2018 Hearing Review Within a span of 8 months in 1946, two papers dramatically changed the course of audiology By James Jerger, PhD A look at how these two formative papers—each by...
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Evaluating Select Personal Sound Amplifiers and a Consumer-Decision Model for...
Research | December 2018 Hearing Review Six case studies replicating previous research – but using people with moderate hearing losses By Ron Leavitt, PhD, Ruth Bentler, PhD, and Carol Flexer, PhD OTC...
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CEDRA: A Consumer Questionnaire to Detect Disease Risk Before Hearing Aid...
Patient Care | December 2018 Hearing Review By Donald W. Nielsen, PhD To maintain consumer safety while dispensing hearing aids and other hearing amplification devices when licensed providers are not...
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Mythbusters’ Myth #7: “Including Family Members in Decisions Just Complicates...
Family-centered Care | December 2018 Hearing Review By Jill Preminger, PhD, Gabrielle Saunders, PhD, and Gurjit Singh, PhD Phonak has convened a select group of hearing healthcare experts who propose...
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The PMP Strategy for Maximizing Profit in Your Practice: Plan, Monitor, and Push
Practice Management | December 2018 Hearing Review By Gyl Kasewurm How to thrive in today’s increasingly competitive hearing healthcare business The hearing healthcare industry is changing. When I...
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Starkey Releases World’s First Hearing Aid with Fall Detection and Alerts to...
Starkey Hearing Technologies, Eden Prairie, Minn, has released its new Fall Detection and Alert feature in Livio AI hearing aids to a limited number of hearing professionals, and plans to offer the...
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Editor’s Picks: Top-25 ‘Hearing Review’ Feature Articles in 2018
Last week, we showcased the most important news items in The Hearing Review during 2018. This week, we’ll present the Editor’s Picks for the 25 most important feature articles featured in Hearing...
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Letters: Hearing Loss Severity and OTC Hearing Aids: Larry Humes Comments on...
Letters | OTC Hearing Aids Dear Editor: I read the article “Evaluating Select Personal Sound Amplifiers and a Consumer-Decision Model for OTC Amplification” by Ron Leavitt, Ruth Bentler, and Carol...
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Evidence that Hearing Aids Could Slow Cognitive Decline in Later Life
Research | January 2019 Hearing Review A summary of important recent research from the EU’s SENSE-Cog Project By Piers Dawes, PhD; Asri Maharani, MD, PhD; James Nazroo, MD, PhD; Gindo Tampubolon, PhD,...
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Biosensors in Hearing Aids: Technology to Enable Daily Healthcare through...
Tech Topic | Biometric Sensors in Hearing Aids The future of biometric sensors in hearing aids from a company that is developing them By Kow Ping WBD101’s heart rate monitor and fitness app. The system...
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Acoustic Neuromas and Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss: A Case Study
Case Study | January 2019 Hearing Review By Carl A. Croutch, AuD, and C. Michael Hall, AuD Patients presenting with sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) may be thought of as one of the few true...
View ArticleAuDStandard Announces Partnership with ESCO
AuDStandard—a Texas-based hearing aid buying group that’s said to provide exclusive pricing, practice growth solutions, detailed analytics, and other services to hearing health care practitioners—has...
View ArticleMedicaid Program in Maryland Now Covers Hearing Devices for Adults Over 21
With 2019 health insurance plans ready to begin January 1, the Governor’s Office of Deaf and Hard of Hearing (ODHH) and the Maryland Department of Health (MDH) announced a recent change in Maryland...
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US Hearing Aid Sales Increase by 5.3% in 2018; Approach 4-Million Unit Mark
[Click on images to enlarge.] Annual US net unit hearing aid sales for the private/commercial (blue) and VA (red) markets, with year-on-year percentages for each and overall sales increases in bold at...
View ArticleOregon Health Now Offers Two Hearing Aids to Patients
Oregon residents that qualify for the state’s Medicaid plan—known as the Oregon Health Plan—will now be able to receive two hearing aids as part of their coverage, according to an article on the Oregon...
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