Should you bundle or unbundle your clinic fees? How do you determine which method is best for your business and your patients?  Michael Valente, PhD, joins Dave Kemp to discuss the essential elements every practice owner or clinic manager should know to ensure the viability of their clinic. He describes how he has been able to successfully manage the audiology clinic at Washington University for years, ensuring the clinic remains viable and able to meet the needs of patients for years to come.  

In this special presentation, Dr. Valente explains:  

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This week, Heather Malyuk sits down with Lisa Tannebaum to discuss how she came to specialize in music audiology. Tannenbaum has more than 30 years’ experience providing ear protection and hearing devices for thousands of clients. 

She established Musician’s Hearing Services in 1993—the first practice on the West Coast to focus on the audiological needs of musicians, sound engineers, and production personnel.  

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Envoy Medical® Corporation recently announced that the FDA has approved its Investigational Device Exemption application to begin a clinical trial with its fully implanted Acclaim® cochlear implant. The single-center Early Feasibility Study for the Acclaim will take place at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.  

In this week's episode, Brian Taylor sits down with Envoy Medical CEO, Brent Lucas to discuss the company's Acclaim CI and clinical trial.   

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In this episode, Ashley Hughes is joined by Riley DeBacker with a discussion on LGBTQ+ inclusivity in the audiology profession. They discuss how clinicians can be more inclusive with their patients and co-workers.  

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This week, Ashley Hughes is joined by Audrey Taylor, a clinical audiologist in Texas, to discuss her experience as a student and now as a clinician with hearing loss. Dr. Taylor helped create and develop the Student Academy of Audiology's resources for students with hearing loss, and continues to serve as an advisor to the group.   

In this episode she also offers advice for colleagues and those working with people with hearing loss on how they can help support their peers who have hearing loss.  

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Today, a growing number of audiology practices are looking at ways to expand and differentiate their clinic offerings. In today's episode, Heather Mayluk talks with Brad Stewart about what it takes to begin and grow a mobile audiology practice.  

Dr. Stewart has extensive experience in mobile audiology, having grown a mobile practice to over seven figures in collected revenue in under 3 years, and now provides consulting services to other practice owners.  

Transcript available: https://hearinghealthmatters.org/thisweek/2022/malyuk-stewart-mobile-audiology/

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The new mantra in hearing care is to meet the patient where they are. One segment of hearing care within this service delivery domain is assisted living care.   

In this segment, Hank Sarazin, CEO and Founder of Onsite Hearing Care, discusses how his company has grown to be one of the largest, and most successful, providers of hearing health services to independent and assisted living communities in the Northeast.  https://onsitehearingcare.com/

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The Northern Virginia Resource Center for Deaf & Hard of Hearing Persons (NVRC) is a non-profit organization that empowers Deaf and Hard of Hearing people and their families through education and community involvement.   

NVRC does not directly diagnose and treat patients; instead, they offer a myriad of educational materials and technologies for patients, their families, and their providers.   

In this episode, Amyn Amlani sits down with NVRC staff members Dr. Joan Ehrlich, Bonnie O’Leary, and Debbie Jones on their various community outreach strategies, many of which could be implemented in a traditional private practice.  

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Kate Carr, Executive Director of the Hearing Industries Association (HIA), joins Brian Taylor to discuss some of the key findings in the latest MarkeTrak 2022 report.  Since 1989, HIA has been collecting data on the estimated incidence of hearing loss within the U.S., household income and education related to hearing aid use, satisfaction with hearing instruments, new user rates by age, mental and physical health effects of hearing loss, and many others.

Kate also reviews HIA's new public awareness campaign, Hear Well, which can be found at: https://www.hearing.org/

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The ecosystem of hearing care service delivery continues to evolve as technology enables patients to self-fit their amplification intervention.  

In this episode, David Akbari, AuD, Senior Medical Science, Clinical and Regulatory Affairs Liaison at Intricon Corporation shares the research methods and outcomes of Intricon’s self-fitting amplification technology called Sentibo. In particular, Dr. Akbari shares the nuances of how the Sentibo device uses a proprietary algorithm that is not based on traditional hearing prescriptive models, and yet provides optimized audibility and sound quality to the end user.  

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