Evidence of Emerging Technologies as a Treatment Option for Mild-to-Moderate Hearing Loss
by David Maidment, PhD In August 2017, President Trump signed into law the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Reauthorization Act, which included the Over-the-Counter (OTC) Hearing Aid Act. The primary intention of the Act is to improve accessibility and affordability to hearing healthcare in adults with mild to moderate hearing loss. The FDA has one…
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Ear Device Patents in May 2019
Your Own Little Lab Ear real estate continues to attract health technology innovations in search of a place to tuck in and work efficiently, uninterrupted. EarLens patents #10284964 & 10292601 are riding that trend with a customized ear canal hearable/wearable system that has a quiet little laboratory churning away in the background 24/7. Equipped…
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US Ear Device Patents in April 2019
Get Down with Your Music and Up With Your Gym Game Patent #10264339 aims to give ear device and hearing aid wearers “the feel of the sound similar to music being played at a night club, a concert, or when being played by a loud stereo,” and “wirelessly communicate with an additional device.” This…
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The Economic Realities of Tomorrow’s Independent Hearing Health Practice: Part 1
by Dave Smirga, MA, and Greg Frazier, PhD, AuD What makes owning and operating an independent hearing health practice financially successful? The simplistic answer would be “when the practice makes more money than it spends.” Through the nineties and even through the early 2000’s, the engine that could be relied on to deliver this equation…
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US Ear Device Patents in March 2019
People know, without conscious thought, that you can’t talk to someone if they’re asleep. Likewise, we naturally go to sleep or at least zone out if we don’t want to hear someone talking. These are examples of physiological “state” variables, in which the response (e.g., hearing/attending or not) is dependent only on our state of…
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