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Design Thinking in Hearing Health: The Define Phase – Reframing Problems Through Collaboration, Synthesis & Divergent Questions
by Kate Baldocchi, AuD, Trisha Milnes, AuD, & Amyn M. Amlani, PhD In 2019,... Read More
US Ear Device Patents for August 2020
Who Needs a Watch? Not Sanmina Corporation in San Jose, California. Fitness and... Read More
Lexie Hearing’s Innovations in the D2C Hearing Aid Market
Hearing Healthcare Market Development Column In July, Lexie Hearing launched a direct-to-consumer (D2C)... Read More
US Hearing Aid Pricing: Part 1 – Nominal Wholesale-Side Trends
Editor’s Note: The last time Hearing Economics discussed hearing aid pricing was 2016, when... Read More
Online Hearing Testing: Phonak and Digital Service Delivery
Hearing Healthcare Market Development Column During the early months of the coronavirus pandemic,... Read More
Pricing in Hearing Healthcare: Which Race are You Running? Part 1 – Market Segmentation
by Amyn M Amlani, PhD In hearing healthcare, price continues to be a hot-button... Read More
Return of the Zombies: Hearing Secrets and Secret Fears of the Undead
Hearing Economics killed off its Zombie Series last year with these chilling words: The... Read More
The Growing Zombie Hearing Aid Market
Hallowe’en again, a year after Hearing Economics uncovered the under-served but growing zombie population.... 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
Econ 202: Monopolists Have all the Luck
The Rant: “What gets me is that you see some of the Big 6... 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
Hearing Healthcare: Fish or Fowl?
March Phonak-Costco Madness ushered in urgency to the health of hearing healthcare providers. March... Read More
Brave New World of BLE and MFi Hearing Aids Begins
GN Resound stole the show at the 58th Congress of Hearing Aid Acousticians (EUHA) in Germany... Read More
US Hearing Device Patent Approvals for September and October 2014
The list of US patent approvals in the hearing industry grows longer with each... Read More