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New hearing healthcare service-delivery models with connected technologies

1 November 2019 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic
Connected hearing healthcare can improve access to affordable hearing healthcare. DeWet Swanepoel discuss how innovative trends in connectivity and technology offer opportunities for novel and decentralised models of delivering high-quality hearing healthcare. Megatrends in connectivity and technology have ushered in...

Promoting human rights of deaf communities in low-resource settings

4 May 2021 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric
Stigma and misconceptions about deafness are serious impediments for many deaf people to realise rights and potential in some of the most challenging situations globally. Around 430 million people are estimated to live with moderate or higher levels of hearing...

In conversation with Lucy Carter

1 July 2014 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric
Sound Seekers is a UK based charity, seeking to help deaf people, particularly children, in the poorest communities in the world. The aim is to work in partnership with local organisations and institutions to ensure we deliver sustainable and cost-effective...

In conversation with Professor Gao Zhiqiang

1 March 2017 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck
Prof Zhiqiang, President of the Chinese Society of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck surgery takes us on a journey spanning over a hundred years of ENT in China: A story of an amazing achievement in a country with a population over...

Dr Huw Cooper, Consultant Clinical Scientist: upcoming Chair of British Society of Audiology

1 September 2014 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Auditory Implants, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric
Can you start by telling me something about your own background? After my first degree in Psychology at Reading and a year doing other things, I went to Southampton to do the MSc in 1982. My first job after that...

Livio™ AI: In Conversation with Achin Bhowmik

1 July 2019 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric
A hearing aid? A Fitbit? A falls alert device? A ‘Healthable’? Achin Bhowmik discusses how Starkey’s Livio AI came to market and what it means for the future of amplification devices. Achin Bhowmik. Achin, you have an interesting background in...

Prof Tanon of the Côte d’Ivoire and Stephanie Unterrieder of MED-EL: challenges and successes of a public-private partnership

5 July 2022 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-ENT
The Côte d’Ivoire (RCI) is a large country on the West African coast. It has recently launched a pioneering neonatal hearing screening programme. Dr Cheka Spencer caught up with Prof Marie-Josée Tanon to discuss this and other recent developments which...

Current management of unilateral sporadic vestibular schwannoma

10 March 2023 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Skull Base Surgery, ENTA-Vestibular Disorders
Vestibular schwannoma is the commonest tumour of the cerebellopontine angle (80%) and accounts for around 8% of all intracranial tumours. The commonest primary presenting symptoms are audio vestibular. Hearing health professionals are often the first contact for patients with potential symptoms of vestibular schwannoma, with the majority then being seen and diagnosed by otorhinolaryngologists.

Getting started in research

10 March 2023 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult
Dave had a passion for research and was very encouraging in developing a research interest in others. Bhavisha and Amanda are currently working with a team of researchers, patients, research funders, the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England, to develop the 2023-2028 UK Action Plan for Hearing loss and Tinnitus Research - a set of recommendations to grow hearing research in the UK. Here, they discuss their journey to hearing care research and how you could get involved in the world of research.

Adult speech testing in the UK

4 May 2023 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Speech and Language Therapy
What do hearing healthcare providers see as the benefits and barriers to delivering speech testing? This article explores the latest research. Why speech testing? Speech tests have been used across ENT and audiology practice to measure an individual’s speech recognition...

The history of person-centred hearing care

3 November 2023 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult
In the World Report on Hearing, launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 3 March 2021, the use of person-centred care is highly recommended. In this article, we learn about the history of person-centred healthcare and hearing care. But...

The business of audiology: unbundling

8 January 2024 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult
Many professions, such as law, accounting, engineering and some areas of healthcare charge hourly rates in a fee-for-service model. Administratively, this can be a challenge to track hours, bill clients/patients, and collect payment, but this does lend toward greater transparency...