Category: Sergei Kochkin

Hearing Aid Market Penetration

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Is There a Real Percentage Change in Hearing Aid Market Penetration rates?   This week’s post continues a discussion of hearing aid market penetration.  This was not the intended topic, but after reading last week’s presentation, some readers challenged Figure 1 of that post, even though the overall message was not challenged – that market penetration…

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Trimming the Sails – Part II

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Part II of “Trimming the Sails” by Dr. Christopher Schweitzer continues as a provocative treatise relating to directions and thoughts as to why hearing aid market penetration fails to meet desired goals.  Dr. Schweitzer is Director of HEAR 4-U International; Chief of Auditory Sciences at Able Planet, Inc.; and Senior Audiologist, Family Hearing Centers in Colorado.…

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