CEU Courses

Randy Baldwin interviews Joel Parker from AudPractice Group to discuss different approaches to having a financial conversation with your patient. Through this podcast, you’ll be able to hear about Joel’s experience and how he looks at the patient journey through the practices AudPractice Group manages. This learning event focuses on the CareCredit credit card and Allegro Credit, and will not include info on other products or services.

Recent literature suggests an association between hearing loss and healthcare cost, but little is known about the deeper potential mediating pathways linking these variables. In this presentation, we will discuss the results of two studies aimed at characterizing attitudes towards health care seeking and preventable hospitalizations among Medicare beneficiaries with self-report trouble hearing.

The use of remote hearing care has been shown to provide benefits for professionals, patients and their families. Parents of preschool-aged children who wear hearing aids were interviewed to understand their experiences using the Oticon remote hearing care application with their clinical audiologist.

Randy Baldwin interviews Dr. Robert Traynor, to discuss the importance of maximizing patient engagement to support a personal customer experience. This learning event focuses on the CareCredit credit card and Allegro Credit, and will not include info on other products or services.

This course will review Widex MOMENT 440/330/220/110 performance levels, highlighting how MOMENT delivers natural sound across each level. After taking this course participants will be able to match the client’s needs to the appropriate performance level and will be able to distinguish the clinical fine-tuning differences in each level.

Learning Outcomes:

1. After this course, participants will be able to describe the similarities and differences between MOMENT 440/330/220/110 performance levels.
2. After this course, participants will be able to describe the differences in performance levels as seen in Compass GPS fitting software.

Agenda:

0-15 Min: Widex MOMENT 440/330/220/110 – what’s the same/what’s different across performance levels
15-30 Min: Distinguishing Performance Levels by End User benefits and Fine-Tuning control in Compass GPS fitting software

This course is designed to provide participants with information on a new feature incorporated into the Ponto 5 Mini Sound Processor – OpenSound Optimizer. The participant will learn what OpenSound Optimizer is, how to access it in the fitting software, and how it will benefit patients.

Do audiologists really need standards regarding the practice of clinical audiology? At least one group of audiologists thinks so, and that’s the members of Audiology Practice Standards Organization (APSO). This organization was created a few years ago with the purpose of developing, maintaining, and promoting national standards for the practice of audiology. The APSO recently published their first standard: General Patient Intake. In this podcast, Brian Taylor talks with Patricia Gaffney, the chair of APSO, to discuss why these standards were created and how they can be implemented in any clinic.

This course will introduce the latest updates to the TrueFit™ fitting software for fitting the Stride™ hearing instruments on the Blu platform. Key features relative to the TrueFit software will be reviewed. An overview of the new enhancements to the Remote Plus app and enhanced remote adjust will also be reviewed.

This course is intended to provide participants with an introduction to bilateral and binaural hearing, benefits gained from hearing with both ears. In addition, we will explore limitations due to cochlear implant processing of binaural cues, outcomes in patients and new ideas related to cognitive load.

Learn the basics of Starkey’s Inspire Fitting software from the Pre-Fitting section of the software to the resources built directly into the platform. Inspire is easy to navigate and ensures a successful first fit for every patient. With an intuitive work flow the Inspire fitting software makes fittings effortless for the provider.