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ADA and IntriCon Partner to Launch earVenture Low-Cost Hearing Aids
In a bold move intended to bring low-priced hearing aids to the professional market and reinstate the provider’s vital place in the treatment of hearing loss, the Academy of Doctors of Audiology (ADA)...
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Audigy Group Wins Top Workplaces Award for Second Year
Audigy Group staff, from left to right: Greg Damico, VP of Membership Development; Heather Sager, Director of Learning and Development; Connon Samuel, COO of Audigy Medical; Paul Paradise, Director of...
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The Final Word: Complex Problems; Often-incomplete Solutions
Final Word | October 2015 Hearing Review By Dennis Van Vliet, AuD It is 9:00 PM at the Minneapolis airport, MSP Concourse G, Gate 13. A uniformed Delta gate agent finally picks up her microphone and...
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Maximizing Results and Minimizing Risks
Practice Management: Pricing & Productivity | October 2015 Hearing Review Making sound decisions is critical to the future success of your business. By Tina Soika, MS, and Michael Edgar As the...
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An “Intentional” Patient Referral Program: A Key to a Successful Hearing Care...
Marketing: Patient Referrals | October 2015 Hearing Review A cost-effective marketing tool for recruiting new patients to your practice By Gyl A. Kasewurm, AuD, and Julie M. Duensing The average cost...
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Top-10 Reasons Why Big Box Retailers Have a Love Affair with Hearing Aids
Opinion: Retail Competition | October 2015 Hearing Review Mass retailers are finding hearing aids to their liking By Granville Y. Brady, Jr, AuD For mass retailers looking to tap into health conscious...
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Precepting for Private Practitioners: Enjoying the Perks and Avoiding the...
Practice Management: Precepting | October 2015 Hearing Review Taking on externs is good for your business and your profession. Here’s how to do it. By Bettie Borton, AuD, Debra Abel, AuD Externs can...
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The Final Word: Adjusting Our Recommendations to a Changing Technological...
Final Word | November 2015 Hearing Review By Dennis Van Vliet, AuD Recently, I’ve been spending some time looking at the MarkeTrak 9 (MT9) data released earlier this year (see June 2015 HR). We have to...
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Back to Basics: The Final Element
Back to Basics | November 2015 Hearing Review By Marshall Chasin, AuD The Final Element may sound like the title of a movie starring Bruce Willis (or was that The Fifth Element?), but this is all about...
View ArticleThird Quarter Hearing Aid Unit Sales Up 4.2%
US hearing aid sales increased by 4.2% in the third quarter of 2015, aided by a 5.6% increase in private-sector dispensing, according to statistics generated by the Hearing Industries Association...
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The Professional Practice: Three Ways to Stay Competitive in a Changing Market
Practice Management | November 2015 Hearing Review By Peter Kossek and Jeanette Fitzke, AuD Today, more than ever, hearing care professionals are looking for ways to stay competitive without...
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16-Minute Webinar: Top-3 Ways to Attract More Patients
Kevin St Clergy, MS October 29 at 1:30 PM EST/10:30 PST, The Hearing Review will air the free 16-minute webinar, The Top-3 Ways to Attract More Patients, by Kevin St Clergy, MS, co-founder of Medical...
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New Webinar: “A Front Office to Back Office Marketing Approach for Physician...
A new 23-minute webinar about implementing a layered approach to physician and patient marketing using disease state messaging is now available on-demand. In the webinar “A Front Office to Back Office...
View ArticleIntriCon Purchases UK’s PC Werth; Continues Industry Expansion
IntriCon Corp, Arden Hills, Minn, has purchased PC Werth Ltd of London, one of the oldest multi-line suppliers of hearing healthcare products and equipment in the UK and a supplier to the National...
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The Final Word: Leading Consumers to a Logical Solution
Final Word | December 2015 Hearing Review By Dennis Van Vliet, AuD I’m using spare weekends to convert the old barn at my childhood home into a guest house. I’m capable of learning about or using...
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California Tele-audiology Program Improves Access to Audiologists
Researchers at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) have shown that the California Tele-Audiology Program (CTP), which provides follow-up diagnostic evaluations for infants who did not pass...
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It’s Not Denial. It’s Observation.
Why people find it difficult to detect changes in their own hearing, and implications for hearing care providers. Practice Management | December 2015 Hearing Review By Curtis Alcock Our traditional...
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Audigy Group Launches Private-Practice Podcasts
Audigy Group, Vancouver, Wash, announced that it has entered the world of podcasting. The medical management company has launched “Attainable.FM,” an online portal of audio-based shows that speak on a...
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The Final Word: Matching Our Treatment Recommendations to Our Patients
Final Word | January 2016 Hearing Review By Dennis Van Vliet, AuD When I first started working with patients as an audiologist in 1976, I wasn’t yet 30 years old. I grew up in the 1950s. I have no...
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Hearing Aid Sales Increase by 7.2% in 2015 after Strong Q4 by Private Sector
[Click on graphic to enlarge.] Annual net unit sales of hearing aids based on HIA statistics, with estimates by Hearing Review on Costco’s market growth.According to statistics generated by the Hearing...
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