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US Ear Device Patents for December 2019
Tis the season Baby it’s cold out there, especially for the ears. Hence,... Read More
Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids as a Catalyst for Audiology Reimbursement Updates
Dear Readers: During this holiday season, the editors at Hearing Health & Technology Matters... Read More
US Ear Device Patents for November 2019
Home Alone with Your Ear Devices Zipline Health’s patent #10463241 laments time lost and... Read More
Pricing in Hearing Healthcare: Which Race are You Running? Part 2 – Consequences of Reduced Retail Pricing
by Amyn M Amlani, PhD In Part 1 of the series on “Pricing in... Read More
US Ear Device Patents for October 2019
Behold, The Pinna Pinnas are visible and cute (e.g., Mickey Mouse, Hello Kitty and... Read More
An Ear Full From Canada
Ryan Kalef returns as today’s Guest Editor. Regular readers of Hearing Economics recall Ryan... Read More
Holly’s House of Audiology Feng Shui: Open After Remodeling
My feng sui is restored, thanks to the most unlikely of sources…. My state... Read More
Costco’s Business Model: Build It and They Will Come
Costco has enthusiastically embraced hearing aids as store-in-store revenue builders in all of its... Read More
Turning Gaps into Opportunities by Thinking beyond Traditional Hearing Aid Technology, Part 1
“Signal & Noise” is a bimonthly column by Brian Taylor, AuD. Segmentation is a... Read More
Back to the Future, part VII: How Big is HUGE?
Editor’s note: This series follows predictions by Lars Kolind in the 1990s. Predictions to date... Read More
Survival of the Fittest Audiologists
Last post introduced readers to Tom Northey and his 2000 forecast of Audiology... Read More
Creative Destruction and the Hearing Care Professional as Entrepreneur
Editor’s Note: Brian Taylor, AuD, returns as a Guest Editor this week to, introduce... Read More
The Tiny Company That Could: Intricon
A year ago, odds are low that the name “IntriCon” was tripping off the... Read More
US Hearing Device Patent Approvals for May and June 2014
Being an Audiologist wandering through the Wonderful World of Patents is like Alice tumbling... Read More
Audiologists Get That Strange, Queasy Feeling
Tom Northey’s 14-year-old discussion of the future of Audiology continues today with a look at... Read More