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Harvard Economist Clayton Christensen’s Take On Telehealth
The Hearing Blog     [link] Christensen, Flier and Vijayaraghavan: The Coming Failure of ‘Accountable Care’ The Affordable Care Act’s updated versions of HMOs are based on flawed assumptions about doctor and patient behavior. By CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN, JEFFREY FLIER And VINEETA VIJAYARAGHAVAN Spurred by the Affordable Care Act, hundreds of pilot programs called Accountable Care...
Sat, Mar 09 2013

Superimposing deafness on top of watching a 3D movie
The Hearing Blog  Or, “when you’re up to your ass in alligators, it’s hard to remember you’re draining the swamp” Life of Pi has opened to deservedly huge crowds due to rave reviews; but what is the experience if you are hearing impaired and watch the 3D version? Author Shanna Groves describes her experience watching this movie with the new [...]
Wed, Nov 28 2012

Guest article by “Deafinitely Girly:” My life enhancing...
The Hearing Blog From time to time we find interesting articles by other bloggers we syndicate. This one is by “Deafinitely Girly,” who is an anonymous severely Deaf blogger in London who just got her first pair of hearing aids. We are republishing this with her permission, to stress the point to our readers that Yes, hearing aids work, and work well. [...]
Mon, Nov 26 2012

Surge Impedance: Why you see the spark when you unplug your...
The Hearing Blog One morning last month started off over coffee with a Sherlock Ohms article in Design News Magazine titled Noise Messed With the Automation System …Hmmm, this looked interesting, so lets see what the problem was [annotated with my comments in blue]: I manage the new product verification team for a small manufacturer of industrial automation equipment. We sell [.....
Sat, Nov 10 2012

Made for iPhone Hearing Aids Are Coming!
The Hearing Blog Guest article by Caleb McNiece on the Starkey roadmap, with comments by Dan Schwartz It’s been a whirlwind day and a half so far at the ADA Conference. The Biltmore resort area is beautiful, and the weather has been very balmy. Definitely a big improvement over Memphis this time of year. Yesterday was our special [...]
Fri, Nov 09 2012

Digital “Moore’s Law” Radio: The Enabling Technology...
The Hearing Blog Moore’s Law, named after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore from his 1965 Electronics Magazine article, posits that the number of transistors on a chip will double about every two years. This has mostly held true for the better part of the last five decades (though advances seem to be coming faster) for computers, but other technologies [...]
Mon, Oct 01 2012

Individuals With Hearing Loss Process Sound Differently In...
The Hearing Blog   New research out of the labs at Purdue University is providing another crucial piece of the puzzle over just how sound in general, and speech in particular, is detected and coded for transmission to the brain: This finding shows how temporal resolution and processing is eroded in the presence of noise, which has a [...]
Sun, Sep 30 2012

Made For Apple Cochlear Implants: The Dominos Are...
The Hearing Blog The Bluetooth 4.0 dominos are falling: Following up on our Apple Hearing Aid? Not So Fast…  post on Friday 14 September, we have this post from the Official ReSound Blog: Cochlear Adopts GN ReSound’s 2.4 GHz Wireless Technology Cochlear Pty… has entered into a Technology Development and License agreement with GN ReSound to leverage [their] [...]
Tue, Sep 18 2012

Apple Hearing Aid? Not So Fast…
The Hearing Blog What we at The Hearing Blog believe will be the foundation of the "Made for Apple" hearing aids by the Big Six hearing aid manufacturers, starting out with a discussion of telecoils and their shortcomings.
Fri, Sep 14 2012

Frustration with so-called �minimal� hearing loss
The Hearing Blog Better Hearing Institute �director Dr Sergei Kochkin had an interesting reply�to Jason Galsters' What motivates hearing aid use: “So many of the people with hearing loss have mild hearing loss and are simply not candidates for amplification.“ I don't buy that statement, for two reasons: (1) When a person walks through the Hearing Aid Professi...
Tue, Feb 07 2012

FM: A Success Story In The Library
The Hearing Blog Sarah "Speak Up Librarian" Wegleys' first-person account of her success story using a Bellman Audio Domino Pro FM system in her workplace to help her perform her daily job duties.
Wed, Sep 28 2011

New Research Shows Listening And Hearing Is Different For...
The Hearing Blog New Research presented at the recent Acoustical Society of America research meeting by Dr Derek M Houston at Riley Hospital for Children (Indianapolis) shows how both listening and hearing is different for children who have cochlear implants; and significantly, how this affects word recognition for years. This research has broad implications for auditory-verbal teache...
Mon, Sep 26 2011

Less-than-honest NBC Today segment on hearing loss
The Hearing Blog Audiologist Dr Shelley Borgia and her patient Jim McDade were less-than truthful about the causes of McDades' hearing loss during their appearance on the August 10 edition of NBC Today
Wed, Aug 10 2011

FM: The Unfair Classroom Advantage
The Hearing Blog Tweet FM: The Unfair Classroom Advantage. For those of us who are�hearing impaired, it is vitally important to clearly hear speech, as we are especially sensitive to any kind of noise interfering with the information our brains are trying to decypher... And this is especially true with children, as they are even more sensitive.� In [...]
Fri, Jul 22 2011

Please Don�t Use Sarcasm With My Students: Guest article by...
The Hearing Blog Because hearing impaired children cannot hear or fully decode the nuances of speech, they can be easily confused when an adult speaks with a sarcastic tone, as the inverted meaning will often be lost on them. Author and teacher "e)" explains why in this Hearing Blog Guest Article~
Tue, Jul 05 2011

Our Nomination of Pat Kricos for the Oticon 2011 Focus on...
The Hearing Blog The Hearing Blogs' nomination of Pat Kricos for the 2011 Oticon Focus on People Awards in the Hearing Care Professional category. Please also see: [link] for the full description of this prestigious award~
Thu, Jun 30 2011

Smashing Success: HLAA Convention 2011
The Hearing Blog The 2011 edition of the Hearing Loss Association of America Convention was a smashing success, with over 1200 people preregistering & well over 1500 attending, making it the biggest convention in theior 32 year history
Sun, Jun 26 2011

Wired to Fail: The Second International Loop Conference
The Hearing Blog The Second International Hearing Loop Conference started out as a troubled convention as far back as last June, culminating when HLAA Convention Planner Nancy Macklin bungling the conference site booking by not anticipating demand (after HLAA pimped the conference for six months), with many people being turned away; and many more not even coming, because [...]
Sun, Jun 19 2011

Cochlear Implant Channel Crossover: First Person Report
The Hearing Blog Pianist and instructor Daniela Andrews unintentionally -- Yet so eloquently -- describes cochlear implant channel crossover, where the charge from the electrode buttons stimulate the wrong nerve endings in the spiral ganglion.
Thu, Jun 02 2011

Advanced Bionics: Fingers tapping�
The Hearing Blog As many �readers are aware, last week Advanced Bionics has received�T�V approval to ship newly modified HiRes 90K implants with the CE marque, with submission to the US FDA pending. Over the last four days, we have repeatedly reached out to AB media relations, corporate, and other individuals with requests for more information contained in [...]
Thu, Apr 21 2011

TIA Urges FCC to Retain Existing Hearing Aid Compatibility...
The Hearing Blog The Telecommunications Industry Association Urges FCC to Retain Existing ANSI C63.19-2007 Hearing Aid Compatibility (HAC) Requirements
Sat, Feb 19 2011

Guest column: Lost in Music Trivia
The Hearing Blog Guest author Sarah Mosher of the Kansas City chapter of the Hearing Loss Ass'n of America writes a first-person account of she and her hearing boyfriend going to a noisy bar for a music trivia game.
Tue, Feb 01 2011

Auditory Therapy: The Missing Ingredient
The Hearing Blog Auditory Therapy: The Missing Ingredient. AR resources from Advanced Bionics, MedEl, Cochlear; Neurotone LACE,
Thu, Jan 27 2011

BREAKING: Advanced Bionics Layoffs
The Hearing Blog BREAKING NEWS: Advanced Bionics lays off 150 employees in the wake of the FDA Recall, including longtime field support staff. Details to be posted as they become available.
Sat, Jan 15 2011

Failing Ugly II: More on the Advanced Bionics Recall
The Hearing Blog Failing Ugly II: More on the Advanced Bionics Recall, including new documents.
Fri, Dec 10 2010