Ask the Next Question – A Fable
Once upon a time, a man had a home repair job to do and went to his local hardware store. He said to the salesman at the hardware store, “I have a job to do at home and I need a tool for the job.” The salesman said, “I have just the thing for you!” …
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A Modest Proposal: The Case for Speech-in-Noise Testing
The audiometric test battery is getting a little long in the tooth and could use some rejuvenation. For about the last 50 years the time-honored suite of tests has been in place virtually unchanged. Why should it change? After all, hearing is hearing. The auditory mechanism hasn’t changed. And hearing aid technology, well, we are…
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Tackling Two Big Bugaboos in the Hearing Industry
by Paul U. Teie, MS There are two big bugaboos in the hearing industry these days. Well, OK, there may be more – there are OTC hearing aids, audiology assistants, the pointless enmity between audiologists, hearing aid dispensers and ENTs, and I’m sure we could come up with others. But the two that seem to…
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OTC Hearing Aids: The View from Persons With Hearing Loss
Editor’s Note: While our editorial team takes the week off for the holidays, we hope you enjoy the most viewed post this year at Innovations in Hearing. This post was originally published on August 2, 2018. Nancy Williams, a person with hearing loss who holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and is President and Founder…
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Nancy Williams, a person with hearing loss who holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and is President and Founder of Auditory Insight, published an informative paper in MedCity News about the trend toward consumerization of health care. She shared excellent insights about this transformation in the wake of the OTC Hearing Aid Act of…
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Person and Family Centered Care in Audiology: How are we Doing?
by Barbara Weinstein, PhD A guiding principle of work with older adults is patient-centered care (PCC) where patient preferences guide the decision-making process. Three domains of behavior govern shared decision-making. Clinicians must elicit the feelings and belief systems of the persons with which we work. We must be transparent about the diagnosis and expected benefits…
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