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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.

Why I Blog

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This week’s Hearing View is written by my blog colleague Dr. Holly Hosford-Dunn, Editor-in-Chief of Hearinghealthmatters.org. If it sounds as if it starts in the middle of a post, that’s because it does. So, first go to Holly’s latest post at Hearing Economics, entitled Aaargh!! Time for Ruthless Publishers to Walk the Plank. There you will find her insightful critique

What Do They (Your Patients) Get Out of It?

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In private practice we get price shoppers on the phone and it is up to our front desk to turn the phone call into an appointment. Though it rarely happens, it can be a challenge for my staff because I have never given a free hearing exam. In my earlier posts I went over some pros and cons of being

Illinois agreement is good news for those with hearing loss: Will NYPD take note?

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By David H. Kirkwood Passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 has had many benefits. Among the most important is that a great many people with disabilities are now doing jobs that pre-ADA they would have either had to give up as their disability developed or would never have been hired for in the first place. Today, thanks

Psycho… what? Musings on hearing vs understanding speech

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The following Hearing View was written by my Hearinghealthmatters colleague Dr. Holly Hosford-Dunn for the blog that she and Sharon K. Hopkins publish at their practice Tucson Audiologists/TAI, Inc. With Holly’s permission, I am re-publishing her thought-provoking essay on Hearing Views to give it the larger audience that it deserves. It also serves as an insightful contribution to my blog’s

Is Insurance Defining Your Practice?

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The decision to become a participating provider is not as easy as you think. We have seen managed care change dramatically over the past 20 years. Even though hearing health care and hearing aids were often value-added discount items rather than covered benefits, it helped having the office or audiologist/dispenser’s name in the providers directory for referrals alone. In Arizona,

Year-end thoughts on hearing: Here are mine. What are yours?

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By David H. Kirkwood It is a traditional year-end duty of an editor, whether in print or online, to comment sagaciously on the year that is nearing its end while also offering some perspicacious thoughts on what lies ahead in the incoming year. Being dutiful by nature, I will attempt to take on those tasks, though not without first issuing

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Mystery Shoppers, Audiology Ethics, and Two-Timing Neutrinos

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This week’s post is long because it is a dialog between two, maybe three, people over the past few days: myself, a self-anointed Mystery Shopper, and the Mystery Shopper’s friend, Hubert. See what you think. Consider how YOU would have responded and send in your corrections/additions/redacts and other commentary to improve my crabby response. This is your chance to be

Online rating of hearing care providers: If it’s going to be done, let’s do it right!

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By David H. Kirkwood Action on Hearing Loss, a non-profit private organization in the United Kingdom, is about to embark on a public service program that I fInd of great interest. I think you will too, if you either treat people with hearing loss or have a hearing loss yourself. This year, Action on Hearing Loss marked 100 years of

Red Is More Than a Color of the Season!

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Name that disorder The first is an “attack” of burning pain and redness of the pinna of one ear and is made worse by a variety of common things: touch, neck movement, lying on affected ear, contact with hot or cold water (drinking or touch) or straining. Depending on the person, it can go on from 15 min to a

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The Case for Application-Specific Practice Management Software: An Insider’s View

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Hearing Economics is pleased to host Christine Diles, AuD as a guest blogger this week.{{1}}[[1]]Christine Diles, Au.D. and Bill Diles, M.A. have owned Kenwood Hearing Center Sonoma County, CA for over 30 years. They have expanded the practice to 3 full time locations with a staff of both audiologists as well as hearing aid dispensers. Dr. Diles is a