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Aug. 19, 2022

Sonova to Acquire Chinese Retail Hearing Chain, HYSOUND Group, with Over 200 Clinics

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STAFA, SWITZERLAND – Sonova Holding AG today announces the agreement to acquire the HYSOUND Group, one of the leading nationwide chains of audiological care clinics in China. The HYSOUND Group will significantly enlarge Sonova’s store footprint and direct consumer access in this fast-growing market, by adding around 200 clinics in over 20 provinces and more than 70 cities across China.
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Aug. 17, 2022

GN to Register Jabra Enhance Plus in OTC Hearing Aid Category to Expand Access

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COPENHAGEN, DENMARK – The US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) announced yesterday the regulation enabling access to Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids for millions of Americans. GN shares this ambition to bring hearing support to the millions in the US who have mild or moderate hearing loss but no hearing aid. Accordingly, GN confirms today its intention to launch Jabra Enhance Plus,
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Aug. 17, 2022

Beltone Announces Launch of Two New Hearing Aids

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GLENVIEW, ILLINOIS – Beltone announced two new hearing aids, the Beltone Achieve and Beltone Imagine Custom CIC. These hearing aids were designed and engineered with advanced hearing technology “to offer more benefits to users so hearing loss doesn’t have to slow them down.” “Our goal is to encourage more people to treat their hearing loss sooner as there are options available for
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Aug. 17, 2022

Best Buy to Launch New Experience for Customers with Hearing Loss

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Following the FDA announcement on OTC devices, Best Buy today announced that it will be introducing a new experience for hearing devices this fall for the millions of Americans with mild to moderate hearing loss “to get the products and support they need”. The new experience will include an expanded collection of hearing devices, an in-store experience in more than
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Aug. 17, 2022

Challenges and Rewards of Building a New Hearing Care Platform – Tuned Audiology Roundtable

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Heather Malyuk sits down with her audiology colleagues, Kathleen Wallace and Laura Sinnott, to discuss their experience helping develop the Tuned hearing care platform – what has surprised them about the patients they are seeing, and the many different ways audiologists can leverage the telehealth platform to better serve patients. To learn more about Tuned and to register as a
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Aug. 16, 2022

Auditory Insight Urges Hearing Health Executives to Size OTC Market Now

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NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT — Auditory Insight, a leading consultancy for the hearing healthcare industry, has created a proprietary process for calculating the OTC hearing aid market size. Developing addressable market size has new urgency now that the FDA has released a final rule for a new OTC hearing aid category. The final rule contains the product specifications required to size the market.
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Aug. 16, 2022

FDA Issues Final OTC Hearing Aid Rule and PSAP Guidance

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a final rule to improve access to hearing aids which may in turn lower costs for millions of Americans. This action establishes a new category of over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids, enabling consumers with perceived mild to moderate hearing impairment to purchase hearing aids directly from stores or online retailers without
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Aug. 16, 2022

GN Launches New ReSound OMNIA Hearing Aid Platform

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BALLERUP, DENMARK – GN Hearing today announces the launch of ReSound OMNIA – a new hearing aid platform that “will set a new standard in hearing technology and improve how people interact with the world around them”. The new ReSound OMNIA is said to provide significantly better hearing in noisy environments than any previous ReSound hearing aid.  Despite advances in hearing
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Aug. 15, 2022

Running a Successful Audiology Clinic: Is a Bundled or Unbundled Approach Best?

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How can you ensure your clinic will remain viable in the face of a changing hearing care landscape? Should you bundle or unbundle your clinic fees? How do you determine which method is best for your business and your patients? Michael Valente, PhD, joins Dave Kemp this week to discuss the essential elements every practice owner or clinic manager should
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Aug. 15, 2022

Program Released for Upcoming 2022 EUHA Congress

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FRANKFURT/MAINZ — The program of the 66th International Congress of Hearing Aid Acousticians (EUHA) has been released, debuting a science symposium on Wednesday morning.   The opening ceremony of the Congress will this year be held on Wednesday, 12 October  2022, at 10 a.m. Prof. Dr. Michael Hüther from the Cologne-based German Economic Institute will give the keynote address. This will