Market
Reasons for optimism in 2021 – what audiology leaders foresee
- Details
- Published on 15 December 2020
hearing healthcare
Reasons for optimism in audiology over the new year ahead range from growing patient control of their devices to more individualised attention and increased collaboration between the players in hearing healthcare.
Tim Clark joins the Starkey team as Managing Director, UK and Ireland
- Details
- Published on 07 December 2020
appointments
Former Sonova Commercial Director, Tim Clark, has been appointed as Managing Director, UK and Ireland for Starkey.
Hearing instrument market recovery continues following first lockdowns in UK and Ireland
- Details
- Published on 28 October 2020
£ performance €
British and Irish hearing device producers have confirmed a continuing brightening of the economic picture for Q3, 2020, as the market recovers from the ravages of spring lockdowns.
CI surgery breakthrough as robot-assisted insertions are completed in Iowa
- Details
- Published on 08 October 2020
surgery
The world's first two robotics-assisted cochlear implant (CI) insertions have been achieved by US firm iotaMotion through its iotaSOFT system, an investigational surgical tool currently in clinical evaluation.
Paradise among factors brightening Sonova financial estimate despite COVID
- Details
- Published on 28 September 2020
crisis
A bright guidance for the first half of the 2020/21 financial year has been beamed out by the Swiss hearing solution giant, Sonova, possibly indicating faster industry-wide recovery from COVID than expected.
Q2 Lockdown battering of UK and Irish hearing market confirmed by manufacturers' data: 85% and 70% falls respectively
- Details
- Published on 23 September 2020
covid
Full Q2 2020 hearing instrument market data has been released, confirming that both private and NHS sales were pushed off a cliff by COVID lockdown policies.
Cochlear launches tool to help adults with hearing aids decide if they could benefit from implants
- Details
- Published on 17 September 2020
implants
A new online tool using language-independent tests to assess a person's ability to discriminate similar speech sounds offers adults struggling to hear with hearing aids a self-testing comparison of how cochlear implants might do the job.
Full programme announced for this year's DIGITAL EUHA 2020
- Details
- Published on 15 September 2020
events
The 2020 Digital EUHA Congress will kick-off on Friday October 9 with an online Future Friday event featuring keynote lectures on crucial technology issues, including artificial intelligence, Bluetooth enhancements, and remote fitting.
2020 UK survey suggests hearing loss self-reporting in UK may significantly top rest of Europe average
- Details
- Published on 08 September 2020
surveys
A 2020 survey by UK hearing aid manufacturers shows higher UK figures for self-reporting hearing loss than in figures from the latest EuroTrak market survey for the same country, and significantly more than the European average.
Success of online GN event underlines audiology's shift to virtual communication
- Details
- Published on 05 September 2020
remote
As with other sectors, hearing healthcare has been pushed into virtual spaces to get across its messages, but the shift to remote needed a landmark event to underline not just its arrival, but perhaps also its effectiveness as a post-COVID medium. Enter GN Hearing.