Hearing Technologies

HAUPPAUGE, NEW YORK — Widex Inc. announced that Widex MySound, a portfolio of AI features that enable intelligent customization of Widex MOMENT hearing aids, has been recognized as a winner in the third annual Hearing Technology Innovator Awards. Recipients were honored for their technological innovation and achievement across 30 product categories.  Widex MySound was selected in the Assistive Technology & Software:

MINNETONKA, MINNESOTA — UnitedHealthcare is now administering AARP Hearing Solutions, which the company says will help “make it easier and more affordable for millions of Americans to purchase prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids”.   Under the new relationship, AARP members can now purchase prescription hearing aids through UnitedHealthcare Hearing starting as low as $699 per hearing aid. This price is significantly

EDEN PRAIRIE, MINNESOTA – Starkey has announced that its Evolv AI, has been named a Gold Globee Award winner in the Health and Pharmaceuticals Product category of the 2022 Business Excellence Awards. This annual international awards program recognizes outstanding products that set industry benchmarks in excellence.   “By believing in better innovation and technology, we’ve paved the way for cutting-edge products

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the CY 2023 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized an exception to the physician order requirement for certain diagnostic testing services to broaden patient access to services furnished by audiologists.  The finalized policy will allow beneficiaries direct access (without an order from a physician or NPP) to

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

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

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

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

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

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