The 2018 Hearing Professional Dispensing Survey
TUCSON, ARIZONA — Hearing Health & Technology Matters (HHTM), a leading online resource for hearing professionals and consumers with hearing loss, has released the results of their 2018 Hearing Professional Dispensing Survey. The online survey was conducted in May 2018, with the purpose of exploring professional opinion and dispensing patterns in the United States. Approximately 300 audiologists…
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Hearing Loss as a Public Health Concern Attracting More Attention
The role audiology plays in public health continues to attract the attention of researchers. Whether policy officials and clinicians apply their findings remains an open question. Over the past several months, a wide range of research papers and assorted commentary on issues related to hearing loss and public health have hit the wires. At the…
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Oticon Launches New Website to Promote Knowledge and Implementation in Pediatric Audiology
SOMERSET, NEW JERSEY – Oticon announced that it is launching a new website to expand access to the resources of the Knowledge and Implementation in Pediatric Audiology (KIPA) group: www.KIPAgroup.org. The KIPA group, which is developed and financially supported by Oticon A/S, “brings together pediatric audiology researchers, clinicians and members of the industry to discuss,…
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New UK Report Provides Comprehensive Clinical Guidelines for Adults Suspected of Hearing Loss
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), a multi-disciplinary committee associated with the United Kingdom’s National Healthcare System, provides evidence-based guidance and advice to improve health care. A primary goal of NICE is to provide all stakeholders, including clinicians and the public with guidance on high quality, cost-effective care options. Last week, NICE…
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HHTM Hearing News Round-up: This Week’s Notable Stories
With so much news happening to report on, this week we bring you a synopsis of timely news items that may be of interest: Age-related Hearing Loss Continues to be a Huge Burden An online report from The US Burden of Disease Collaborators, recently published by JAMA, indicated age-related hearing loss continues to…
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The Big Shift in Patient Counseling That’s Happening Right Before Our Eyes
Audiologists often place patient counseling into two categories: 1.) Informational counseling, which primarily focuses on educating patients and their families about test results, the consequences of untreated hearing loss and the role of hearing aids for treating it. 2.) Personal adjustment counseling, which describes how audiologists help patients deal with the emotional and social impact…
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New Study Delves into Link Between Hearing Aid Use and Healthcare Costs
As members of AAA debate the merits of direct access legislation, a new study, published online April 26 at JAMA-Otolaryngology is apt to capture the attention of Medicare policymakers. Elham Mahmoudi and colleagues at the University of Michigan, using data from the 2013-2014 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, evaluated hearing aid use among 1336 adults, aged…
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Hearing Aids Slow Down Cognitive Decline, Says New JAGS Study
The relationship between cognitive ability and hearing aid use in older adults has drawn considerable interest over the past several years for obvious reasons: Many nations around the world are coping with a growing aging population, along with many of the consequences that accompany it. Hearing loss and cognitive decline being two of the common…
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High Costs are Driving People Away from Necessary Healthcare
U.S. health care costs keep rising, evidence is mounting that these high prices are instrumental in people skipping physician visits. In 2016, healthcare costs amassed a person cost of more than $10,000 a year. According to one recent national poll conducted by the University of Chicago and West Health Institute, over the past 12 months,…
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Giant Retailers are Teaming Up to Change Medical Care, Will Hearing Healthcare Have a Similar Fate?
As Costco continues to gain market share in the hearing aid private market, CVS Health and Lucid Hearing are expanding their presence by opening more retail locations. In addition to this nationwide growth of corporate retail hearing aid centers, Walgreens is testing the waters with a Starkey partnership, and Sivantos announced last week the acquisition…
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