Apple’s new Loud Sound Reduction capability scans the environment 46,000 times a second for sudden peaks in sound, reducing them to a safe level.
Strategies for combating the infiltration of a set of societal beliefs that leads to poor health outcomes is what makes anti-smoking campaigns a compelling analog on the eve of a new OTC hearing aid category.
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A bill introduced by Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) and Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) in March would allow patients to visit an audiologist to get a hearing test to diagnose a hearing problem without first being referred by a physician or nurse practitioner.
By reducing the number of follow-up visits, telehealth apps help free up more time for healring health professionals to attend to revenue-generating tasks, such as diagnostics or new patient fittings.
In the near future, medtech may take a cue from rock music. Indie musician Imogen Heap and her team of scientists and designers have launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise 200,000 pounds by May 3 to fund production of a data glove that can translate the wearer’s motion into sound. While the wireless data glove’s first purpose […]
In a bid to make customized hearing aids more accessible and less expensive to people who have a hard time hearing, iHear Medical is cutting the audiologist out of the equation. The medical device startup is making mail-order hearing aids that consumers can fine-tune at home using an accompanying hearing test kit. Inside the test […]
In a landscape where complexity has long been the norm, the power of one lies not just in unification, but in intelligence and automation.
The latest wearable tech isn’t digital. It isn’t even really all that complicated. The Cynaps Enhance Project uses bone conduction technology in the form of a baseball cap to enhance hearing. While this technology has been long-used as a hearing loss solution in the form of bone anchored hearing aid implants, the company claims the […]