At our Business Partner Summit last week, Sarah Aesoph and Jonathan McGiverin presented on Financial Management and Cash Flow. The session covered financial basics, making data driven decisions and being proactive in your practice management. Financial Basics Knowing your financials is the pathway to making precise decisions. • Balance sheet = The health of the […]
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By Stephen Hallenbeck, Au.D One of the benefits of Remote Microphone Technology is that it takes advantage of the natural directivity afforded by the pinna and external ear. The shape and orientation of the pinna provide directivity by enhancing sounds from the front and providing less amplification for sounds originating behind the head. Placing the
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Last week, we held our very first Business Partner Summit in St. Paul, MN, focused on strategies for successful practice management. We had 85 private practice attendees and received some great feedback on the quality of the sessions. For those private practice owners that were unable to attend, we’d like to share the highlights from
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By Stephen Hallenbeck, Au.D The location of the microphone is extremely important during the design phase of hearing instrument because of the differences in sound energy. Prior to reaching the ear, a sound wave interacts with the environment. Absorptions and reflections inherent in any acoustic environment provide amplification or attenuation to certain frequency regions of
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By Stephen Hallenbeck, Au.D This week, I’ll be posting a number of blog posts about the science behind Remote Microphone Technology and the patient benefits in terms of localization, directivity and wind noise reduction. Remote Microphone Technology works by leveraging the natural effects of the pinna and external ear. The pinna carries out an important
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By Tammara Stender, Au.D. & Rena Appleby, Au.D. Verification and validation are techniques that are used to ensure hearing aid performance and end-user satisfaction. Despite the many benefits, these techniques are often overlooked during fitting. Some common reasons are: Unclear on test result interpretation or how to convey results to patients, and/or belief that digital
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By Jennifer Groth, M.A. One of the best ways to personalize a fitting for your patients is to choose the most appropriate hearing aid experience level. ReSound’s Aventa 3 fitting software includes 4 levels specific to the patient’s hearing aid experience level: Comfort User, First Time User, Experience – Linear, and Experience – Nonlinear. This
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Wax build-up is the most common cause for “weak” or “dead” custom instruments being returned to ReSound for repair. To illustrate the impact of a plugged wax filter, response curve Hearing Instrument Test (HIT) measures were obtained for a hearing instrument in two different scenarios. It was run once with a plugged wax filter and
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ReSound’s Reconfigure option can be used when the physical receiver or the open versus closed configuration that you are using is different than that identified in Aventa 3. Reconfigure allows you to customize Alera BTE aids to best fit your patients’ needs. Follow these guidelines to take advantage of Reconfigure: After connecting the instruments in
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ReSound has developed a new technology for wind noise protection. WindGuard, which will be available in the Fall, is a dual-microphone signal processing technology designed to effectively reduce the level of wind noise in hearing devices. While hearing devices have come a long way in eliminating wind noise, hearing instruments that use dual microphones still
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