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Hearing Aids with Integrated Bluetooth

Jerry Yanz, PhD, FAAA

August 2, 2010

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Are any hearing aids available on the market today with integrated Bluetooth?

Answer

While no hearing aids available today actually have a Bluetooth receiver integrated into the hearing aid, there are many great options for hearing aid wearers to stream audio from Bluetooth sources such as cell phones, lap tops, gaming systems, etc. to their hearing aids. Instead of Bluetooth in the hearing aid, these systems use a Bluetooth remote transceiver, which then sends a near-field inductive signal to a small receiver in the hearing aids.

At Hansaton, several of our top-end hearing systems, coupled with our Media remote, enable wearers to connect to their mobile phone, for example. Using the Media transmitter, they can connect to television, MP3 systems, stereos, and virtually any Bluetooth enabled device. The Media remote control is available with Hansaton's Auriga, Velvet, Espria technologies, including the award-winning X-Mini Receiver-in-Canal (RIC) design, and the new AQ Custom Rechargeable Hearing Systems.

For more information, please give us a call at 888.984.7432 or visit our website, www.hansaton-usa.com. You may also visit the Hansaton web channel on AudiologyOnline.

Jerry Yanz, Ph.D. is Director of Audiology at Hansaton USA, where he develops education and training programs for Hansaton staff and customers. He has 16 years experience in a variety of roles in the hearing industry, as well as clinical and academic experience. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa.

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Jerry Yanz, PhD, FAAA

Senior Trainer in the Education and Training Department at Starkey Labs

Jerry L. Yanz, Ph.D., is a Senior Trainer in the Education and Training Department at Starkey Labs. After earning a Bachelor’s degree from Stanford University, he went on to earn Master’s and Doctoral degrees in speech and hearing sciences from the University of Iowa. Before entering the hearing aid industry in 1994, he served on the audiology faculty at the University of Minnesota and was Director of Audiology at the St. Paul Hearing Clinic in St. Paul, Minnesota. In his current role at Starkey, he brings those previous experiences to bear on the tasks of delivering meaningful educational programs to hearing professionals, writing articles for professional journals and participating in hearing aid research and development. Dr. Yanz is a Fellow of the American Academy of Audiology and holds memberships in the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Minnesota Speech-Language-Hearing Association and the American Auditory Society.

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