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Some professionals wonder if these quality control procedures are necessary or still applicable to today’s technology. Dr. Jourdan Holder tells us why these measures for hearing aids are still a critical component to providing best-practice patient care.
Peter Stelmacovich’s “Wired Audiologist” moves to the Features section for this issue with an important overview we can all use on hearing loss terminology.
Marshall Chasin catches up with legendary audiologist Richard Seewald to discuss his outstanding career and find out what’s been keeping him busy in “retirement.”
Originally posted at HHTM on March 21, 2017. Reprinted with permission “Signal & Noise” is a bimonthly column by Brian Taylor, AuD Recall the term “good audiology” is loosely defined as a combination of science and art that cannot be duplicated by a computer algorithm. The first two Signal and Noise posts of 2017 were devoted to this concept of…
Originally posted at HHTM on April 11, 2017. Reprinted with permission Harvey Abrams comes through again in a recent posting on this site entitled “Noise in the Quiet”. Dr. Abrams discusses the value that audiology can add to the patient with the clinical methods we should possess. He states: Note that I purposely avoided the word “bundling” here…
Originally posted at HHTM on April 12, 2017. Reprinted with permission Costco has enthusiastically embraced hearing aids as store-in-store revenue builders in all of its burgeoning warehouse locations since the mid-90s. The rate of Costco hearing aid center growth (feature image, red) has outstripped warehouse growth (blue) in recent years. Both are on fast tracks. Last Giant…
Originally posted at HHTM on April 4, 2017. Reprinted with permission Costco growth has always been spectacular since its inception as a single warehouse in Seattle in 1983. Starting from scratch, Costco was the first company to grow sales to $3B in less than six years. By 2015, it ranked #2 in global retailing, just behind Walmart. The Big Box…
The second edition of this book by Peter C. Weber aims to “demystify the vestibular system and vestibular disorders”. This book does an excellent job of providing a predominantly general overview to all things vestibular without going into too much technical detail, making it a good resource for many different health professions: medicine, otolaryngology, audiology…
Reprinted from HEARINGREVIEW.COM 1 FEBRUARY 2016 Part 1: Commentary by Marshall Chasin: Perhaps the most well-read article of 2017 is “The effects of service-delivery model and purchase price on hearing-aid outcomes in older adults: a randomized double-blinded placebo-controlled clinical trial” by Larry Humes and his colleagues at Indiana State University, published in the March 2017…
Renowned audiologist and researcher Robert Harrison joins Canadian Audiogist as a regular contributor with our new “From the Labs to the Clinics” column.