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Nick Fitzgerald has served as HHTM’s Chief Marketing Officer for the past 3 years. He is the President and Owner of AuDSEO, a full service digital marketing agency. With over 15 years of digital marketing experience, Nick is a highly data-driven marketer, with expertise in search engine optimization, digital analytics and forensics, social media, digital advertising, and web development. He has been involved in the construction and optimization of nearly 1,000 web presences, including some of the largest Fortune 500 companies.

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GN awarded three CES 2023 innovation honorees

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BALLERUP, DENMARK — GN today announced that it has been crowned CES® 2023 Innovation Awards Honoree for three of its leading technologies. ReSound OMNIA™/Beltone Achieve™, Custom made by ReSound™/Beltone Imagine Custom™ rechargeable hearing aids and Jabra Enhance Plus™ were each recognized by the CES Innovation Awards program. This year’s program received a record high number of over 2,100 submissions. The announcement was

Pathways Interview with Amy Bradbury, Educational Audiologist

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Editors note: Pathways had an opportunity to learn about educational audiology—an area for which our Pathway readers have had a paucity of exposure. So here for your edification, is an interview with educational audiologist, Amy Bradbury. Q Hi Amy, thanks for this interview. Tell us about your background and your employer. Thank you, Frank, for asking for my participation. Q

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Hearing Aid Use in the Workplace

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by Robert M. Traynor, Ed.D., MBA, FNAP, Robert Traynor Audiology, LLC, Ft Collins, CO., and Garry G. Gordon, M.S. Audiologist /CEO E.A.R., Inc., Boulder CO. Introduction The World Health Organization (WHO, 2021) estimates that 1.5 billion people (nearly 20% of the global population) live with some degree of recordable hearing impairment. For 700 million of these individuals their degree of hearing

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Oticon Own, World’s 1st Custom Hearing Aid with an On-board Deep Neural Network, Wins CES Innovation Award

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SOMERSET, NEW JERSEY — The Consumer Electronics Association (CES) has named Oticon Own™ a CES® 2023 Innovation Award Honoree in the highly competitive Wearable Technologies category. The leading international awards program annually selects the best of the best in consumer electronics. Judges for the prestigious technology award praised Oticon Own for “innovative design and engineering features that scored highly across

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IHS Announces Purchase of International Headquarters

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LIVONIA, MICHIGAN – The International Hearing Society (IHS) closed on the purchase of a building complex in Farmington Hills, Michigan, on November 10, 2022. The new international headquarters will house the 71-year-old Society that is “devoted to the education, advancement, protection, and promotion of hearing healthcare professionals and the services they provide to help individuals communicate better”. The move from

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GN Announces Lively Rebrand as Jabra Enhance, Online Hearing Care Platform

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BALLERUP, DENMARK – Today, GN announces the expansion of the Jabra Enhance hearing offering to include Lively, a leader in hearing solutions and convenient, online care for users with mild to moderate hearing loss. Lively has rebranded to Jabra Enhance and launched a new website, JabraEnhance.com, as an online destination for better hearing “enabling consumers to explore, purchase and receive

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OTC Hearing Aids – Why No Telecoils?

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By Stephen O. Frazier For a significant portion of the hearing aid wearing public, the introduction of over-the-counter hearing aids became a non-event. Why – because none of the devices being stocked by the Walmarts and Walgreens of the world contained what is, to those hearing aid users, a “must have” feature – telecoils. Telecoils are the antennas that receive

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Signia Styletto AX and New Augmented Xperience (AX) Platform Updates are Now Available to Veterans, Active Military Members, and Native Americans

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PISCATAWAY, NEW JERSEY – Signia today announced its new Styletto AX hearing aid and two new capabilities for its Augmented Xperience (AX) platform — My WellBeing and CallControl — are now available to U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) audiologists treating military veterans, as well as audiologists within the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), for active military members, and the

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Is it Time to Review Your Clinic’s Digital Presence?

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2021 is over and now we can look forward to turning the page and starting fresh. This makes it a perfect time to run an audit of your hearing practice website. It’s time for a website audit Auditing your website is a lot like taking your car for a routine tune-up. Your website isn’t a ‘set it and

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Ear Device Patents for December 2021

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Hearable is a relatively new word in our vocabulary. It’s only made the title of 6 US patents since it first appeared in 7/2019. Not until this month has a patent title specified a hearable of the type we see on the market: Three patents aim to authenticate or detect of existing devices (Harmon, Apple and Qualcomm) Two Facebook patents