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User Engagement with Signia TeleCare: A Way to Facilitate Hearing Aid Acceptance

Options to offer services and solutions based on electronic processes and communication have in recent years been increasingly explored within the entire healthcare industry. Depending on the specific processes and technologies involved, such solutions are often referred to using umbrella terms like eHealth, mHealth, connected health, telemedicine or telehealth, but more field-specific terms have also been introduced.

Audiology Online

2019-02-05 Publication

Hearing Review: Better Hearing is Better Living

This study supports the idea that modern hearing aid technology improves patients’ quality of life to a greater extent than shown in previous studies. While it is not possible to determine the degree of the direct relationship, it appears that Own Voice Processing leads to talking more in important communication situations, and in turn, this helps lead to the improvement.

January 10, 2019

How to Fit Bluetooth-integrated Hearing Aids to Maximize Patient Satisfaction

Today’s hearing aid fitting and counseling session should extend beyond the traditional hearing aid fitting & counseling protocol, in order to ensure user satisfaction in daily life right from the start. Exploring the benefits of Bluetooth technology and counseling regarding realistic expectations should therefore be routinely provided prior to leaving the Hearing Care Professional’s office. The paper gives detailed guidance how to conduct such an assessment for all manufacturer’s Bluetooth hearing aids, with further tips for Signia products utilizing manufacturer specific tools and features.

Comparison of streamed audio signal quality: what matters in the real world

Few manufacturers offer technology that incorporates both bilateral full-audio sharing of signals as well as direct streaming from a mobile device. In a comparative research project, the effectiveness of the streaming for such hearing aids was evaluated. The findings reveal a crucial difference between streaming indoors and outdoors, which is important to consider when counseling patients. Results show a substantial streaming advantage for the Signia product, and indicate that a Bluetooth based wireless approach as applied by the competitor brand does not deliver on all basic user needs.

2018-11-27 White Paper

Signia Nx Proven Benefits

Our goal at Signia has always been to allow our patients to live their lives to the fullest despite hearing loss. Therefore, we develop hearing solutions designed to ease and facilitate communication in a variety of listening situations. This paper describes several of our advanced features on the Nx platform and corresponding studies that demonstrate clinically proven benefit to patients.

2018-09-07 Publication

New Solutions for ITE Direct Streaming

The latest study shows that the streaming audio quality of the Signia Nx ITC instruments have achieved “best-in-class” audio streaming as compared to the only competitive custom streaming device.

Canadian Audiologist

2018-07-20 Backgrounder

What’s The Preferred Rechargeable Hearing Aid With Direct Streaming?

How does Pure Charge&Go stack up against leading competitor hearing aids? A study was conducted in April 2018 with 100 participants to find out.

2018-03-26 White Paper

The Case for Bilateral Wireless Streaming During Phone Use

An increasing number of wearers are relying on Bluetooth to stream phone calls to their hearing aids. Some options on the market which feature streaming to both ears contend that the bilateral signal fosters better speech intelligibility, but is this supported by research evidence, or just conjecture?

2018-03-06 Backgrounder

The art of designing Pure Charge&Go Nx

Connectivity is undoubtedly one of the most im-portant topics in the hearing aid industry today. While most people immediately associate the word connectivity with being able to link their hearing aids with electronic devices such as smartphones, in a genuinely patient-centric hearing system the ap-plication of connectivity encompasses more than simply connecting to personal electronic devices.

2017-12-17 Publication

Sound Quality as the Key to User Acceptance

This AudiologyOnline article describes Nx improvements in sound quality.

AudiologyOnline.com

2017-12-10 video

Full Live remote Tuning Video

Since the introduction of TeleCare, anonymous analytics data shows that there have been more than 150,000 patient-professional interactions around the world, including 5,000 remote tuning interactions. With this large amount of data available, valuable insights can be deduced to help hearing care professionals improve their service and business success. Learn what Signia TeleCare can do for your practice and what's new with version 3.0.

2017-10-03 How to use

How to use Basic Remote Tuning 2.0

The myControl App 2.0 provides the wearer with a convenient way to control their Bluetooth direct-streaming hearing aids as well as to monitor their hearing performance closely. Here is how to use the app.

2017-10-03 How to use

How to Perform Remote Fine Tuning via Full Live remote Tuning 3.0

When working with Signia Nx Bluetooth hearing aids such as Pure Nx, TeleCare 3.0 turns the patient’s Apple or Android smartphone into a programming interface, and enables full remote programming functionality via Connexx. Here is how to do it.

2017-10-03 Feature in Brief

Full Live remote Tuning

Since the introduction of TeleCare, anonymous analytics data shows that there have been more than 150,000 patient-professional interactions around the world, including 5,000 remote tuning interactions. With this large amount of data available, valuable insights can be deduced to help hearing care professionals improve their service and business success. Learn what Signia TeleCare can do for your practice and what's new with version 3.0.

2017-10-03 Feature in Brief

myControl App 2.0

The myControl App 2.0 provides the wearer with a convenient way to control their Signia Bluetooth hearing aids according to their needs as well as to monitor their hearing performance closely.

2017-08-28 Publication

Comparison of Music Sound Quality Between Hearing Aids and Music Programs

While hearing aid users often wear their hearing aids for music listening, they are frequently dissatisfied with the sound quality of music. This AudiologyOnline article details a study which describes music sound quality ratings between the universal and music programs of five premier market hearing aids, and which hearing aid achieves the best overall sound quality ratings.

AudiologyOnline, August 2017

2017-07-13 Publication

A Comparison of Signal Quality of Direct Streaming Hearing Aids

Study shows that Signia Pure 13 BT consistently received the highest mean ratings compared to the average of the four competitor products. This advantage held true for five different genres of music and for a streamed mobile phone speech signal. Signia Pure 13 BT also was rated considerably higher than the other products regarding annoying artifacts.

Canadian Audiologist, Vol. 4, Issue 4, 2017

2017-05-30 White Paper

Telecare 2.0 - New tools to enhance patient care and fitting outcomes

The second generation of TeleCare builds up on the success of TeleCare 1.0 to improve the link between the HCP and the user.

2017-05-05 White Paper

Pure 13 BT, motion detection and myControl App - The next step in connectivity

Taking advantage of the powerful computers we carry around in our purses and pockets – our smartphones – hearing instruments have just reached a new level of precision. By adding information from the motion sensors in our smartphones through Bluetooth (BT), Signia Pure 13 BT can detect the wearer’s listening situation in a much more sophisticated way.

2017-05-05 Feature in Brief

Direct Streaming with Pure 13 BT

“Direct streaming” describes transmitting an audio signal from a mobile device to a wearer’s hearing aids - without using an intermediate accessory to relay the signal. Direct streaming is the most desirable streaming technology available for hearing aids, and has become even more important because of increasing usage of smart phones.

2017-05-05 White Paper

The Connected Ear

“Connectivity” is a word that is used a lot in today’s society, and for good reason. Whether we are connecting with friends and acquaintances on Facebook, using our smartphones to connect to media and news websites, or checking the weather, the theme of connectivity plays a big part in most people’s lives.

2017-05-05 Feature in Brief

Motion Detection. A System for the Listener on the Move.

Pure 13 BT is the first solution that marries the until-now separate worlds of hearing instruments and advanced smartphone technology to improve signal-processing. With the new myControl app from Signia, the hearing aids can access information from the wearer’s smartphone, enabling them to detect the acoustic environment and anticipate the listener’s intent and preferences more precisely than ever before. The hearing aids cannot know for certain what the wearer wants to hear, but with the movement information, they can predict it with better accuracy. In addition, the user can control their instruments, monitor their acoustic environment and, of course, stream directly from their iPhone or iPad.

2017-04-11 How to use

How to use the myControl App

The myControl app provides the wearer with a convenient way to control their Bluetooth directstreaming hearing aid Pure 13 BT (1). The myControl app is available for Apple mobile devices (iOS 9.3 and onwards), and can be downloaded free of charge from the App Store.

2017-04-11 Feature in Brief

myControl App

The myControl app provides the wearer with a convenient way to control their Bluetooth ® directstreaming hearing aid Pure 13 BT. The myControl app is available for Apple mobile devices (iOS 9.3 and onwards), and can be downloaded free of charge from the Apple App Store.

2016-11-29 Publication

Telehealth Apps and Hearing Aid Trial Periods: New Technology to Revolutionize Patient Care

The Hearing Review, November 29, 2016

2016-10-26 White Paper

Signia TeleCare – the Future of Hearing Care Starts Now

What would you say if smartphones can even help you provide hearing care? What if there is a smartphone application which could ensure a continuous and secure communication channel between the hearing care professional (HCP) and the patient? What if during the critical hearing aid trial period, there is an app which provides continuous support to help the patient’s adjustment to the new devices? What if the HCP can easily send new settings remotely to the patient’s hearing aids as needed without the patient coming into the office? There is no need to wait any longer: Signia TeleCare has just arrived.

2015-06-07 Publication

Improving Cell Phone Listening With Hearing Aids: A New Adaptive Streaming Volume Algorithm

AudiologyOnline, June 7, 2015

2015-02-06 Feature in Brief

Feature in Brief: Adaptive Streaming Volume

No matter where the wearer is, Adaptive Streaming Volume automatically adapts the volume of the streamed input according to the changing background noise level so that it is always audible above the noise.

2014-10-15 Feature in Brief

Feature in Brief: binax Spatial Configurator

Spatial Configurator is the easy user control by which the experienced wearer can steer his hearing instruments in ambiguous situations according to his listening preferences.