Survival of the Fittest Audiologists
Last post introduced readers to Tom Northey and his 2000 forecast of Audiology in the future, which predicted that today’s audiologists would fall into camps of survivors or scatter to the wind as competitive forces eased out the losers. Today’s post is for those of us interested in operating in survivor mode. Northey contrasted our…
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That Vision Thing
How many readers remember Tom J. Northey, The One That Got Away? Mr. Northey is a ghost guest contributor this week, not because he’s deceased but because he came to Audiology, he saw the future, and he left for greener pastures. In 2000, he wrote a monumental forecast of our profession, published in audiologyonline. It probably…
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The Unraveling of Hearing Healthcare Delivery, part 2
Dr. Jerry Northern returns as guest contributor this week to review a number of converging factors that threaten the viability of Audiology as a profession. The factors emanate from the rapid transition of hearing aid distribution from a medical model toward the electronic commodity market, as he discussed in Part 1. Specific solutions are in short…
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Drilling Down into the DNA of Buying Groups
Editor’s Note: David Smriga is Hearing Economics’ guest contributor this week. He brings new views and more data to the ongoing discussion of hearing aid buying groups. As noted, buying groups are not new but they’re getting renewed interest and scrutiny as hearing aid distribution channels continue to change rapidly. I read…
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Siemens Files for Divorce (again)
“The Past, Present and Future walked into a bar. It was tense.” time warp in a bar Hearing Economics hit its stride by writing a 21-post series involving Siemens back in the good old HearUSA days of 2011. You’d think that would be enough, but stray remnants kept trickling in, getting buried on the desk, cluttering up…
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