Beyond Hearing Screening: The Importance of Holistic Hearing Care and Audiometric Analysis
For patients to get the most out of hearing screenings, the service should ensure a path to further diagnosis and appropriate follow-up care.
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What Is Important to Your Hearing Aid Clients… and Are They Satisfied?
What are the major drivers of customer satisfaction with hearing aids? Almost all surveys emphasize the importance of hearing speech in noise. Recent consumer surveys also indicate that the main drivers of hearing aid satisfaction are sound quality or hearing aid performance over their satisfaction with the hearing care professional (HCP) or hearing aid physical qualities. Listening situations most important to hearing aid users for speech understanding are: 1:1 conversations and group conversations in noise, soft speech in quiet, understanding speech without visual cues, and speech at a distance.
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Acclarent Launches New ENT Navigation Technology
Acclarent, Inc announced the US launch of its “first-ever AI-powered ENT technology, designed to simplify surgical planning and provide real-time feedback during ENT navigation procedures.”
CLEAR Launches Amptify Digital Therapeutic for Hearing Loss
ClEAR, a company that develops products for individuals with hearing loss, announced the launch of its “category-defining digital therapeutic for hearing loss that enables organizations to offer comprehensive, evidence-based hearing healthcare to their populations,” called Amptify.
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Starkey Partners with Inventis on Fitting Technology
Compatible with Starkey’s REM Target Match tool, the Inventis Trumpet is “capable of performing quick and accurate in-situ measures thanks to its small and lightweight probes and its built-in amplified speaker,” according to the company’s announcement.
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New Telehealth Guidelines for Patients with Dizziness Published in ‘The Cerebellum’
The taskforce offered two important tips: (1) How to identify a patient who needs urgent evaluation, expedited evaluation, or one who could wait to be seen in clinic at a later date; and (2) How to evaluate a patient with dizziness using the virtual platform of telemedicine.
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Study Shows Benefits and Challenges of Telehealth
The study reported several boons for telehealth patients, including reductions in stress, missed work, the number of hospital visits, travel time, and exposure to pathogens, in addition to improving access to care with the option for out-of-state consultations.
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AMA Releases 2021 CPT Code Set
These foundational modifications were designed to make E/M office visit coding and documentation simpler and more flexible, according to the AMA. The changes to CPT codes ranging from 99201-99215 are proposed for adoption by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on January 1, 2021.
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Researchers Find Up to One-third of English Adults May Have Undetected Hearing Loss
The findings reveal many hearing loss cases remain undiagnosed in primary care, since people very often cannot recognize their hearing has been affected, and highlight gaps in the continuity of hearing care pathways.
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Maico Diagnostics to Hold Free Webinar on Newborn Hearing Screening
The webinar will help inspire you to look at the hearing screening process in a positive light by providing information about how important the screening is to the future of a child with hearing loss; explain the methods used to perform the screening so you have a good understanding of the techniques you are using; and give practical recommendations for obtaining high-quality hearing screening results in the shortest possible time.
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Senior Access to Telehealth Technology May Be Limited
The article cites hurdles such as small icons, difficult-to-read typefaces, and inadequate captioning that hinder usage by those who may need the technologies the most, given their increased susceptibility to COVID-19.
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AuDNet and Earways Medical Partner on EarWay Pro Earwax Removal Product
The product is ideally suited to treating patients with impacted ear wax or excessive wax buildup, an increasing likelihood as patients practice months of stay-at-home behavior in response to the current pandemic, the companies say.
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‘Forbes’ Article Examines Link Between COVID-19 and Potential Hearing Loss
In an article on “Forbes,” professor and journalist Bruce Y. Lee reviews the evidence currently available regarding the link between COVID-19 and hearing loss.
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Researchers Find Evidence of SARS-CoV-2 in Middle Ear and Mastoid
Warning that the results have “significant implications for otolaryngology procedures,” the authors of the study recommend personal protective equipment (PPE) such as eye protection and N95 masks be worn by health care practitioners performing ear surgery.
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MedRx Launches USB Video Otoscope
MedRx’s otoscope software has many features that allow users to record videos, take images, print custom reports, and integrate with several office management systems. The software can display live video feeds to show patients their eardrum.
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The Age of Telehealth
Every crisis has a silver lining and one of the clear front-runners during the COVID-19 pandemic is the increased use of virtual healthcare visits, says author Archelle Georgiou, MD. Telehealth for getting medical care over the Internet has been available for more than 20 years, but use of the technology was low until the pandemic severely restricted providers and patients from having face-to-face visits.
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An Interview with Michael Valente, PhD: Considerations after 45 Years in Audiology
On July 31st, Michael Valente will retire after 45 years in audiology and 34 years at Washington University. In this article, Douglas Beck conducts an “exit interview” with one of our most distinguished clinician-researchers about his journey in the profession, the Best Practices documents which he spearheaded, OTC devices, and the future of hearing healthcare.
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Empowering the Wearer: AI-based Signia Assistant Allows Individualized Hearing Care
Results of this study show the Signia Assistant smartphone app ensures the end-user safely gets the best possible solution for any given situation, marking an important step in going from assumption-based to data-driven knowledge—and moving away from a “one-size-fits-all approach” to precisely tuned hearing for each individual via artificial intelligence.
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