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PSAP and Hearables Market Encroachment, part 1

HHTM Leave a comment Audiology / Definitions of hearing aids and PSAPs / economic substitute / FDA / FDA regulated hearing aids / MarkeTrak 9 / Personal sound amplification products / PSAP

Editor’s Note:  The Hearing Disruptions series seeks to cover the rapid changes taking place in hearing healthcare. Today’s post is culled from recent topics presented to the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) Committee on Accessible and Affordable Hearing Health Care for Adults.     Comments on PSAPs and Hearables    Holly Hosford-Dunn.  Based upon an address presented…

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Boundary Areas Between PSAPs and Hearing Aids, Part 1

Richard Einhorn 1 Comment Age-related hearing loss / Audiogram / Charlie Geyer / Definitions of hearing aids and PSAPs / Etymotic Research / FDA regulated hearing aids / Gail Gudmundsen / hearing / Hearing Aids / Hearing impairment / Hearing loss / Hearing test / HIA / Institute of Medicine / Low cost amplification / Low-cost hearing aids / MarkeTrak 9 / Mead C. Killion / Normal hearing / Personal sound amplification products / Professionally-fitted hearing aids / PSAPs / PSAPs and hearing aids

This is first in the Device Disruptions series edited by Richard Einhorn. Editor’s Note:  In the 70’s, Mead Killion, PhD, ScD (hon), urged high sound quality for hearing aids when hardly anyone else cared, let alone understood, its crucial importance. He is the inventor of the legendary K-Amp, the Digi-K, the QuickSin, some of the…

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