Articles

Times are changing and the need for new tools to provide support has never been higher. The Signia Assistant is founded on over 130 years of audiological experience and trust in the hearing care professional. Build on the Artificial Intelligence technology Neural Networks, it’s able to identify which adjustment suits the current environment best, based on both global and individual learning. For the user it means they can tailor their sound to meet their everyday situation, for the HCP it means a completely new insight tool into their wearer’s real world experience and use of the hearing aids. Relevant for the special situation we’re facing globally: The Assistant is also able to support with handling and troubleshooting and can act as the extended arm of the HCP. In this white paper, the Assistant is put to the test. Let’s see how it performs is real world user studies.

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

A large portion of individuals with dementia also have hearing loss. When these patients are fitted with hearing aids for the first time, the use and operation of the instruments can be a struggle, and the struggle often carries over to their caregivers. This research found that the use of teleaudiology via Signia TeleCare for these new hearing aid users increased awareness, improved benefit for several different communication settings, and reduced associated stress for the caregivers.

May 21, 2019

One of the main concerns of Hearing Care Professionals (HCPs) who are fitting and dispensing hearing aids is knowing how to achieve excellence in patient service. A study involving 88 HCPs and more than 5600 first time users revealed the benefit of Signia TeleCare in creating higher hearing aid adoption rates with patients. The use of TeleCare was also found to result in high user satisfaction ratings in all the most relevant hearing situations for the individuals. The findings showed that a careful and consistent implementation as part of the HCP’s patient care workflow was key to leverage the remote care potentials provided by Signia TeleCare.

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.

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.

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.

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