WASHINGTON, DC, March 21, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hearing Industries Association (HIA) held its 2018 annual meeting in Washington D.C. March 19-20. As the trusted voice on hearing healthcare, HIA addressed patient safety and education, delivery care, innovation and public policy at the meeting themed “Hearing Forward 2020.” HIA members, partners and guests received insight and updates on topics including collaborating with government rule-making agencies, digital health technologies, advances in telemedicine, and aging in America.
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minnesota –November 7, 2017 – Harris Communications, Inc., a leading supplier of affordable hearing loss solutions, recently published a new brochure highlighting amplified phones and captioned phones for the hard of hearing. View a digital copy of the brochure at http://online.flipbuilder.com/wuzc/dwbb/mobile/index.html.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – Clarity, a division of wearable technology leader Plantronics (NYSE: PLT), today unveiled the TV Listener™–smart, lightweight wireless headphones that pair with TV and other Bluetooth devices to provide a rich and crisp personal listening experience. The TV Listener™ has been designed so users can watch television at the volume they need without disturbing others.
It's been a busy week that reflects growing interest in aging and new technologies. Just after the third annual Louisville Innovation Summit, some of the attendees and/or exhibitors dashed to San Francisco for the Aging 2.0 Optimize event. The founders, Stephen Johnston and Katy Fike, launched Aging 2.0 in 2012 'to pick up the pace of innovation that benefits older adults.' The program includes the Generator Ventures fund, an 'Academy' to cultivate classes annual classes of startups, distributed worldwide events, and competitions that feature finalists who participate in pitch competitions. Their flagship and well-attended Optimize event concluded today in San Francisco – with five of the exhibiting/pitching startups featured below. Information is from their websites or press materials:
Hearing technology advances -- the hearing aid industry considers changing. It’s a positive when you see disruption of industries that have too tight a lock on the consumer, whether it is in categories of health insurance, telecom carriers or hearing aids. You spend time with people everywhere you go – those with significant hearing loss but no hearing aids; they have hearing aids, but hate to wear them. According to a recent NY Times article, two-thirds of adults over 70 have hearing loss that warrants hearing aids, but only 15-30% of those wear them – and at $5000 a pair, no wonder. In recent years, personal sound amplification products (PSAPs) that are not classified as hearing aids and thus do not require the audiologist role, though the FDA may change that. Just asking, if the device is called a ‘Wearable’, does Silicon Valley find it more worthy of funding? But anyway. In July, Consumer Reports published an explanatory guide that should be required reading for organizations that serve older adults. It would seem to be the wild west of innovation. Here is a sampling of five recent product announcements:
CES 2018 is off to a noisy, rainy and motion-filled start. The 