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Originally posted by HHTM on May 24, 2016 On May 12th, Brian Taylor placed a post on this website about Samsung and Apple perhaps influencing the hearing aid field. By now, everyone can probably discuss disruptive innovation. If you don’t know about this concept and its application to the “P-stuff” in the title, you have probably been off the grid…
Originally posted by HHTM on June 9, 2016 · CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA — Tech industry titan, Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL), was awarded a patent this week by the US Trademark Office for a headset that utilizes bone conduction to deliver improved hearing in the presence of ambient noise. The patent,#9,363,596, was originally filed in 2013. The earphone device uses an accelerometer-based…
Originally posted May 17, 2016 This is the almost-final Econ 202 post on barriers that exist in the US hearing aid manufacturing and delivery system.1 Parts 1, 2 and 3 addressed regulatory requirements that discourage new entrants; legal and economic definitions of barrier to industry entry/exit; structural and strategic barriers in the hearing aid industry; and specific strategic barriers used by incumbent…
Originally posted on May 31, 2016 Before we get started, a disclaimer: This post will name names – hearing aid products, a health insurance company, and hearing health care benefit programs. I have no financial or non-financial interests in any of the products/companies mentioned except as a subscriber to the GEHA national health insurance plan…
On the PCAST Report and the FDA Hearings Originally posted on June 7, 2016 · The focus of the public workshop hosted by the FDA on April 21, entitled “Streamlining for Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) for Hearing Aids” was the recent report from the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). The PCAST report and the…
Version française disponible ci-dessous Last fall the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) provided several recommendations about how hearing aids should be delivered to the hard of hearing public. It should be noted that there were no audiologists or hearing aid manufacturers on the committee and their input was not solicited. In…
Readers of Alberto’s column should by now be used to his predilection for rigorously defining terms that are frequently used in the acoustics side of the field. In keeping with that practice he defines Hearing Protectors, Hearing Loss, and Intelligibility, so that there will be no misunderstandings.
Marshall Chasin explains that while the Speech Intelligibility Index can provide information on the phonemes of a language, one needs to go beyond the phoneme to the word and the sentence as well.
Wayne Staab looks at the evolution of hearing protection for shooters.
Gael Hannan reveals her secret guilty pleasure to and how it’s OK to give in to her inner Green-Eyed Monster now and again.