Today’s Hearing Aid Buyers, Part 2
Jerry Northern continues his analysis of the New Hearing Aid Consumer, a newcomer with more expectations and sophistication than buyers of the past. Today, Dr. Northern covers the dizzying array of technological features confronting those consumers as they attempt their due diligence. As usual, Northern’s writing is user-friendly. His examples and use of Audiologists’…
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Today’s Hearing Aid Buyers
This week’s post, the 184th post published at Hearing Economics, is written by Dr. Jerry Northern, who returns for another round in the guest contributor ring. As usual, his timing is perfect. Hearing Health Matters! is celebrating two milestones today — our millionth page read and our 500,000th unique reader. What better way to…
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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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Wholesale Hearing Aid Pricing – Is It On the Level?
Today picks up on a series begun in response to a headline-grabbing proclamation by a manufacturing CEO: “‘The hearing aid industry uses every new thing … to raise prices.” To which Hearing Economics posed rhetorical questions and slowly began addressing them: What is the basis for making such a claim? Are claims like this true or do…
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Hearing Aid Flexible Elongated Member Prompts Patent Probe
Hearing aid manufacturers are pursuing market power with a vengeance, if you credit the comment in last week’s post that “Patents and patent protection… extend a firm’s market power.” Siemens wins for Most Patents Issued, a good place to be if they’re once again putting themselves up for top-dollar sale. Panasonic and Phonak tie for Title…
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