CEU Courses

Tinnitus is often associated with hearing loss but can also affect patients without any loss present. Understanding the basics of tinnitus can help identify the different masking options that will work best for patients. This course will examine available strategies to meet the needs of individuals with tinnitus and approaches that may be utilized using Starkey hearing aids.

Starkey’s new Genesis product portfolio, dedicated music processing, and My Starkey patient experience app optimize audibility for soft music and restore the perception of loudness for loud music. This course will review the benefits of a dedicated music processing system, streaming music protocols, and how patients can adjust these features to optimize the world of music around them.

Hearing healthcare practices are responsible for ensuring the safety of the professional staff as well as the patients and others who enter the practice. This course discusses the risk of infection in the hearing professionals’ workspace and risk prevention tools to develop an office infection control protocol.

Prescriptive hearing aid fitting rationales play an important role in successful hearing aid fittings. The ability to optimize the hearing aid response from the first fit forward is necessary to ensure the technology being fit provides amplification that is appropriate for the hearing loss, promotes effective communication, and addresses the individual needs of the patient. Hearing aid fitting formulas can also play a role in the acceptance or rejection of amplification. In this session, Dr. Dave Fabry discusses fitting formulas with Dr. Andrea Hannan Dawkes, Senior Education & Training Audiologist.

Telehealth technology for hearing healthcare has continued to grow in popularity and offers both patient and professional the ease of connecting when convenient. Starkey’s TeleHear Remote programming technology makes remote programming even easier: offering both synchronous and asynchronous tools to truly meet your patient where they are.

With the goal of helping hearing-aid users in difficult listening situations, Edge Mode+, an on-demand processing feature, was designed for Starkey hearing aids to provide additional signal processing to optimize listening experiences. This presentation will review the research studies that demonstrate the benefits of this app-based, on-demand processing feature on multiple measures of patient outcomes

Assistive devices can provide benefit in challenging environments and are available in the form of accessories, telecoils and loop systems. This course will review the rationale for recommending a number of assistive device technologies to increase success for the hearing aid wearer.

In this podcast, tinnitus expert Dr. James Henry provides an overview of tinnitus generally and in the veteran population, closing with a discussion of current tinnitus research.

Pro Fit is Starkey’s professional fitting software for our current product portfolios. This course will examine advanced fitting tools and strategies to maximize patient outcomes with Starkey hearing aids. Troubleshooting basics will also be covered in this course.

Pro Fit is Starkey’s professional fitting software for our current product portfolios. Achieving positive patient outcomes requires a variety of strategies to ensure a successful hearing aid fitting. This course will examine advanced fitting tools and strategies to maximize patient outcomes with Starkey hearing aids using specific case studies.