Market
InnerScope looks to private investment to fund its "disruption" of the US hearing aid market
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- Published on 25 February 2020
retail
InnerScope Hearing Technologies' promised over-the-counter onslaught on the US hearing aid market requires a $15m investment which, says the company, will be found from private placement offerings.
Survey shows US growth for rechargeable hearing aids
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- Published on 23 February 2020
surveys
© AndreyPopov - iStock A small survey it may be, with completed forms from just 225 audiologists, but almost 70% of respondents in the 2020 Audiology Professional Dispensing Survey agreed with the statement that they dispensed “significantly more” rechargeable hearing aids in 2019 than in 2018.
EuroTrak hearing loss market survey to add data from Spain
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- Published on 16 February 2020
market data
For the first time, the multi-country hearing loss survey, EuroTrak, is to include data from one of the major markets so far absent from this vital information haul: Spain.
Audacious Boots team-up tailors mobile calls to hearing profiles
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- Published on 15 February 2020
mobiles
Sound processing technology has been developed in the UK to help hearing loss sufferers cope with mobile phone calls, using a service delivered by the mobile network Audacious through the giant retailer and pharmacy chain, Boots.
Starkey's Las Vegas Expo underlines "seismic shift in the hearing industry"
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- Published on 23 January 2020
events
Offering professionals a first glimpse of its soon-to-be launched Livio Edge AI hearing aid, Starkey held its own business and tech show this month in Las Vegas. The key words, of course, were "artificial intelligence" (AI) and "healthable".
Can the audiology business future be predicted from market survey data?
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- Published on 13 January 2020
surveys
Market surveys such as EuroTrak and the long-running MarkeTrak offer up plenty of data, but does it really provide any clues to the future of the audiology business? Raúl García-Medina, new VP of the British Society of Hearing Aid Audiologists (BSHAA), says the data is invaluable but prediction calls for all the tools of the digital revolution.
Will the hearable shape of Phonak's Virto Black bust the great hearing aid stigma into dust?
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- Published on 10 January 2020
launch
The stigma of being seen to wear a hearing aid has been a brick wall for producers and has persisted through generations of hypoacusis sufferers unhappy about visibly earworn apparatus and their accessories. But the smart money must now be on this wall disappearing without so much as a puff of smoke.
Europe's hearing device manufacturers welcome Amplifon into the fold
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- Published on 29 November 2019
trade bodies
The Italy-based hearing care retail company, Amplifon, has joined Europe's major manufacturing association, EHIMA.
Brexit stockpiling powering roller-coaster UK hearing market
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- Published on 26 November 2019
sales
Stockpiling because of Brexit insecurity is behind Q3 unit sales for hearing aids in the UK repeating this year's Q1 pattern, a 12.9% rise on 2018, according to data from the British and Irish Hearing Instrument Manufacturers Association (BIHMI).
Fast gene test to save hearing in babies gets marketability green light
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- Published on 19 November 2019
diagnostics
CE marking has been announced for a half-hour infant hearing loss test to screen babies for the gene mutation that brings lifelong deafness when these susceptible patients are given certain antibiotics.