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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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Apr. 25, 2011

De-capitation Redux: Adventures of Rick, part 2

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In the very first post (https://hearinghealthmatters.org/hearingeconomics/2011/case-of-the-de-capitated-audiologists/), we heard from Dr Rick Lazich and his partner, who were negotiating a contract for audiology services in state long-term care facilities. … and there were a bunch of dentists involved somehow.  At that point, his group had just ponied up big bucks to hire actuaries to help with the process. Today, he’s sent in an update as
Apr. 19, 2011

Spasmodic Batteries

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As we learn more about how what we use affect the environment we will see our products change. When I started my first “real” audiology job there was the change to use the zinc air batteries from silver and mercury. There were some patients who complained up a blue streak about how the battery life changed. I since have experienced
Apr. 13, 2011

Positive Communication Can Be A Reality

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Two things happened last week that prompted me to conduct a Communication workshop for my employees. One was between two workers that were not communicating well and bad feelings were escalating, the other was reading an article (https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2011/03/label-interaction-difficult-patient.html) on Dr. Kevin Pho’s blog about looking at the situation as not about the “difficult patient” but more of the situation the
Apr. 12, 2011

Hearing Aid Insider Trading — Big Time or Bush League?

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The hearing aid industry made the financial pages recently, when the CEO, CFO, and Chairman of Sonova Holding AG announced their resignations, simultaneously and suddenly.  Sonova says it is the “world’s largest hearing-aid maker” and I’ll take their word for it.  Sonova owns a number of well-known hearing aid brands, such as Phonak, Lyric, Hearing Planet, and others.  Here is
Apr. 12, 2011

Hearing care for prisoners: It’s their constitutional right

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By Fred Cohen America’s prisons are bursting at the seams with over 2 million prisoners, of whom perhaps 200,000 are over the age of 50. Older prisoners are subject to the same hearing problems associated with age as the free world population. However, under our legal system prisoners are entitled to medical care that does not exist for persons in
Apr. 06, 2011

If you agree that Hearing Health Matters…

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…HAVE WE GOT A FORUM FOR YOU! A few weeks ago, I was interviewed by Kara Nacarato, editor of The Hearing Professional, the International Hearing Society’s member publication.  Among her questions was, “What will you miss most about your role as editor of The Hearing Journal?,” a job I left at the end of 2010. I had to mull over
Apr. 06, 2011

The Op-Ed Pages @ HHM.org

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  Hearing Views is a forum for anyone with an opinion or comment to share on any aspect of hearing and hearing health. We welcome contributions from providers and consumers of hearing care, or from anyone else who cares about hearing. We also invite responses to posts on this site. Simply post your comment in the Reply box, subject to
Apr. 06, 2011

Welcome to private practice

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Judy Huch, AuD & Scot Frink, MS   In the ever-changing world of private practice, we want to provide, and invite, different perspectives. Every practitioner has his or her own reasons for working independently, but we all want to run a successful practice.  At Hear In Private Practice, we want to give our fellow practitioners a chance to share your ideas
Apr. 06, 2011

How do you grow your practice?

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Welcome!  Here in the Private Practice blog I hope to increase the flow of ideas and have some give and take when it comes to what works and does not in our offices.  There will be patient viewpoints as well as practitioners’ on this site. We want to be as efficient as possible when running our practices but we need
Apr. 06, 2011

Welcome to Hearing Economics!

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  Economics isn’t taught in the hearing healthcare curriculum, but it should be!  We are witnessing Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand at work, steering hearing healthcare markets toward equilibrium through massive and/or rapid shifts in consumer demands, professional training, technological advancement, capital investment, industry consolidation, regulatory control, product and service distribution, and strategic pricing.  We’ll look at some of those market