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Signia TeleCare Facilitates Improvements in Hearing Aid Fitting Outcomes

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1.  What are some benefits of Signias TeleCare for patients? It reduces barriers for hearing impaired individuals living in underserved areas It helps people who are not able to drive or take public transport It reduces traveling and waiting time for all patients All of the above

2.  How else does TeleCare facilitate the hearing aid adoption process? TeleCare incentivizes hearing aid adoption by offering a monetary discount TeleCare provides hearing aid wearers with the opportunity to become more involved in the fitting process TeleCare allows patients to freely adjust hearing aid frequency shape by themselves TeleCare allows patients to directly report problems to hearing aid manufacturers

3.  MarkeTrak data show that over __ of individuals purchasing hearing aids are repeat patients. 90% 75% 60% 10%

4.  How does TeleCare benefit hearing care professionals? TeleCare helps them reach more patients TeleCare helps them deliver extra patient-centered care TeleCare strengthens the "doctor/patient" relationship All of the above

5.  Whats a new feature in Signia TeleCare 3.0? It features a new texting function It allows patients to directly share their fitting experience via popular social media platforms. It allows patients to directly schedule in-office appointments via the app It offers full live remote tuning so that audiologists can fine-tune patients' hearing aids in the real-life situations for which they are intended.

6.  What are some specific features of TeleCare 3.0 designed to increase patient acceptance, benefit and satisfaction with their new instruments? The option to deliver at-home patient care by solving issues after the initial fitting through remote programming changes to the gain, output, frequency response, noise reduction and other algorithms. Ability to track the patient's satisfaction for different real-world listening conditions to determine if programming changes or additional counseling is warranted. Ability to track patient's location throughout the day which helps in identifying specific listening situations when patients report difficulties. A&B

7.  Participants rated their ability for different listening situations important to them, before and after the home trial using TeleCare. How the two ratings compare? A substantial decrease in the ability ratings occurred, with mean values going from 87% to 58% following the fitting of the new hearing aids. A substantial increase in the ability ratings occurred, with mean values going from 58% to 87% following the fitting of the new hearing aids. No noticeable change in ratings occurred. A slight increase in the ability ratings occurred, with mean values going from 58% to 65% following the fitting of the new hearing aids.

8.  How did participants rate their satisfaction of their performance in selected situations before and after the home trial? There was nearly a two-point improvement following the home trial with TeleCare assistance. There was nearly a two-point drop following the home trial with TeleCare assistance. The ratings did not change significantly following the home trial with TeleCare assistance. There was nearly a five-point improvement following the home trial with TeleCare assistance.

9.  Following the fitting and TeleCare intervention, __ of situations received a highly satisfied rating. 40% 50% 60% 70%

10.  How did the study participants ratings on the IOI-HA compare with norms? The participants' ratings were substantially higher than normative values in 5 out of 7 domains. The participants' ratings were substantially higher than normative values for 3 out of 7 domains. For all 7 domains, the participants' ratings were substantially higher than normative values. For all 7 domains, the participants' ratings were slightly higher than normative values.