This Week in Hearing

This special edition of This Week in Hearing offers a candid discussion on the health care landscape, as provided by two accomplished and distinguished physicians: Dr. Ardeshir Z. Hashmi, Endowed Chair of Geriatric Innovation and Section Chief of the Center for Geriatric Medicine at Cleveland Clinic, and Dr. Fred Ma, Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President at Cognivue, Inc.

The role of cognitive screenings in audiology practice has been and continues to be a topic of discussion. In this special edition of This Week in Hearing, HHTM is partnering with the Academy of Doctors of Audiology to bring our viewers a recording of the Panel Session entitled, “Understanding the Relationship between Cognitive Decline and Hearing Loss,” that occurred during

The benefits of aural rehabilitation (AR) for people with hearing loss has been well established for decades. Yet, for a variety of reasons, very few people diagnosed with hearing loss today receive any kind of AR training or support. In this issue of This Week in Hearing, host Amyn Amlani has a conversation with one of the leading voices in AR,

Ever wish you could fine-tune the frequency response of your favorite electronic devices? Well, Mimi Hearing Technologies allows you to do this in products that license their software development toolkit (SDK). In this issue of This Week in Hearing, host Amyn Amlani has a conversation with Chief Research Officer, Sarah Voice, about their technology to test hearing sensitivity, their SDK

In this special edition of This Week in Hearing, Dr. Tom Tedeschi breaks down the FDA’s draft proposal for Over The Counter (OTC) hearing aids. The presentation and subsequent panel discussion was part of the Academy of Doctors of Audiology, AuDacity 2021 conference in Portland, Oregon. We would like to thank Dr. Tedeschi and ADA for allowing us to publish this

Brandon Sawalich, President and CEO of Starkey, returns to This Week in Hearing to follow-up with Dr. Bob Traynor to discuss the FDA’s latest decision to release the draft OTC hearing aid rule, as well as the new Medicare Hearing Benefit currently under consideration in Congress – part of a much larger spending bill the White House hopes to pass

In this week’s technology spotlight. Dr. Bob Traynor speaks with Sandra Porps, Au.D., Head of Audiology for MDHearing. The pair discuss the company’s new QuietTV wireless headset – a device designed to address a common complaint encountered in the audiology clinic: difficulty hearing television. The new QuietTV Wireless Headphones are said to utilize MDHearing’s latest technology to enhance speech and

In this week’s episode, Dave Kemp interviews Delain Wright of Intricon – a company that has been a supplier to the hearing aid industry for decades.   In recent years, Intricon has shifted focus to the value segment of the hearing aid market, which has led to partnerships with UnitedHealthcare in 2012 with hihealthinnovations, and earVenture – a joint venture

The practice of audiology is rapidly changing. It’s simply not enough to passively wait in your clinic for patients to show up looking for help; audiologists must become actively involved in providing care in places beyond the four walls of their clinic. One of the pioneers in the practice of interventional audiology is Lori Zitelli, AuD of the University of

Cerumen, more commonly known as earwax, is one of the leading causes of hearing aid breakdown and a hinderance to the service delivery model as some providers refer patients to other professionals for cerumen removal. In this week’s edition of our webcast, Sahil Diwan, Co-Founder and CEO of SafKan Health, and Jackie Phillips, Vice President of Sales for SafKan Health,