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.
A hearing healthcare veteran consultant, who has significant hearing loss, describes 7 market-tested best practices. Understanding the consumer-patient journey is crucial to developing strategic priorities for companies across hearing healthcare, from hearing aids to cochlear implants to gene/drug therapy.
The progress in artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping patient care, across various dimensions, from facilitating faster discharge to curating treatment plans and suggesting lifestyle changes.
Through the partnership, AARP members are able to purchase prescription and over-the-counter hearing aids through UnitedHealthcare Hearing. They'll also be able to receive free hearing tests.
If FDA's decision on making hearing aids available over the counter leads to greater adoption, it could encourage consumers to learn more about their condition, and therefore improve the health literacy of the public. The downstream effect of this is to increase the perceived value of the audiologist beyond mere salespeople of a medical device, which audiologists everywhere should applaud.
The FDA's final rule could make hearing aids available as soon as October. With nearly 30 million American adults struggling with some form of hearing loss, the change will greatly expand access to hearing care, experts say.
Only 1 in 5 Americans use hearing aids because of the prohibitive costs — an average of $2,500 — so two senators are telling the FDA to stop dragging their feet to issue new regulations allowing over-the-counter hearing aids.
As technology advances, AI-powered tools will increasingly reduce the administrative burdens on healthcare providers.
President Joe Biden's new executive order aimed at reducing anti-competitive behavior across industries includes directing federal agencies to revise guidelines for hospital mergers, enable people to comparison shop health plans on the ACA marketplaces and work with states to import drugs from Canada.
An overlooked yet central aspect of Apple’s solution is that the AirPods Pro now integrates customized amplification with hearing protection against noise in a single device.
The Bay Area hearing device-maker planned to raise $141.3 million in an upsized IPO. Its stock started trading on Nasdaq under the ticker “EAR.”
Data empowers insight and decisionmaking, so introducing devices that constantly monitor at-risk patients is a definite way to deliver the best possible health outcomes of any situation.
The future looks bright for the integrated specialty pharmacy model – for health systems, providers, and most importantly, for patients.
Last week, the FDA approved an expanded indication for single-sided deafness and asymmetric hearing loss for MED-EL's Synchrony cochlear implant device, opening up the potential for millions of new patients to access the technology to improve their hearing health.
The idea behind the partnership is that consumers will be able to use their Android devices without relying on an intermediate tool for streaming audio to their hearing aids.
Once the FDA finalizes guidelines, the six global hearing aid companies will face a trajectory familiar to other sectors that have shifted to OTC in the past. They will likely confront dramatically lower prices but also the opportunity to develop the larger market
An important trend contributing to the consumerization of healthcare is the transformation of select prescription categories to over-the-counter.
Hearables point to the potential convergence of traditional hearing aids with consumer product audio devices.