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Survival of the Fittest Audiologists

Holly Hosford-Dunn 1 Comment Accounting / Audio Devices / Audiology / Big 6 / Boomers / Bundling / Class 1 Medical Device / Competitive Market / Costco / Demand / Diminishing Marginal Utility / disruptive Innovation / disruptive technology / Earl Harford PhD / Economics / FDA / Health insurance / Hearing Aid Manufacturers / Hearing aids / Hearing healthcare / Hi HealthInnovations / Internet hearing aid sales / market growth / Medical Evaluation Requirement / Medical Waiver / OTC / Over-the-counter hearing aid / Personal Sound Amplification Product / Price / Price Elasticity / Price Taker / PSAP / Purchasing Decision / Rational Behavior / Regulated hearing healthcare / State Licensure / Supply / Supply Curve / Supply Side / Supply Side Shocks / Technology / Tom J Northey / United Healthcare / Utility / Willingness to Pay / Willingness to Sell

  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

Holly Hosford-Dunn 2 Comments Accountable Care Organization (ACO) / Audiology / Big 6 / Bundling / Competitive Market / Costco / Demand / disruptive Innovation / disruptive technology / Economics / factors of production / FDA / Gross Margin / Health Information Exchange / Hearing aids / Hearing healthcare / Jerry Northern PhD / Made for iPhone Hearing Aids / Marginal Utility / market growth / Operating Profit / Personal Sound Amplification Product / Price / Price Elasticity / product differentiation / PSAP / Purchasing Decision / retail markup / Starkey / Substitute Goods / Supply Curve / Supply Side / Supply Side Shocks / Technology / Utility / Willingness to Pay / Willingness to Sell

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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US Hearing Device Patent Approvals for May and June 2014

Holly Hosford-Dunn 1 Comment Audio Devices / Audiology / Big 6 / Bluetooth Smart supported / Brent Edwards / Class 1 Medical Device / Class II medical device / disruptive Innovation / disruptive technology / Entrepreneurism / factors of production / Hearables / Hearing Aid Manufacturers / Hearing Aid Patents / Hearing aids / Hearing Apps / Hearing healthcare / Internet hearing aid sales / Made for iPhone Hearing Aids / MFi Hearing Aids / nanotechnology / Oticon / Panasonic / Personal Sound Amplification Product / PhD / Phonak / PSAP / ReSound / Rodney Perkins MD / Siemens / Soundhawk / Starkey / Technological Progress / Technology / United States Office of Patent & Trademark Office / US Patents / USPTO / Wearable technologies / Widex

Being an Audiologist wandering through the Wonderful World of Patents is like Alice tumbling down the rabbit hole into Wonderland.  I’m sure it’s better than mushrooms and the supply seems endless. New Patents, Birth Announcements, and Rebirths in WondEAR World   May/June brought a shower of patents having to do with implants, adjustable magnet systems,…

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Hearing Healthcare: Fish or Fowl?

Holly Hosford-Dunn Accounting / Accounting Cost / Accounts Payable / Advertising / Audiology / Audiology Membership Organizations / Bookkeeping and Accounting / Bundling / Cost / Costco / Creative Destruction / disruptive Innovation / disruptive technology / Economic Sectors / Economics / factors of production / Fixed Cost / Hearing aids / Hearing healthcare / Labor / NAICS / Price Taker / Pricing / Profit & Loss (P&L) / Purchasing Decision / Rational Behavior / Retail / Sector 44-Retail Trade / Sector 62-Health Care / Technology / Variable Cost

March Phonak-Costco Madness ushered in urgency to the health of hearing healthcare providers.  March Mayhem was foreshadowed for 3 years in Hearing Economics posts, starting with resurrection of 1990s prognostications of professional schizophrenia and bimodalism stemming from creative destruction. And lo, it came to pass as disruptive technologies and economics came among us and we were sore afraid. Otherwise,…

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Smartphone Control Apps for Hearing Devices: The Science

Holly Hosford-Dunn 1 Comment Amsterdam Medical Center / Andrew T Sabin PhD / Android apps / Audio Devices / Audiology / Consumerism / Dianne J Van Tasell PhD / disruptive Innovation / disruptive technology / Ear Machine / Hearing aids / Hearing Apps / Hearing healthcare / iOS apps / Kevin Franck / smartphones / Technological Progress / Technology / Two-pi / User Control

 Hearing Economics is pleased to welcome back the Guest Contributors from Ear Machine for Part 2 of Smartphone Control Apps. Dianne spent 20 years at the University of Minnesota, teaching and doing research on hearing aids.  She was director of advanced research at a major hearing aid manufacturer, and for the past 10 years has…

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