Hearing Economics

 Cash is King.  Practices that fail to pledge fealty to Cash risk death or dismemberment by the villains that burn cash for fun.   Bwahahaha!  As promised in the previous post in this series, today wraps up the series with a rogue’s gallery of the biggest and baddest cash flow villains.  Not surprisingly, all the big villains are internal weaknesses,

Wow, the last two months saw a lot of patent activity for hearing devices from a lot of competitors, most outside the US.  Click the links for previous lists (Jan-Feb 2013 buy synthroid online https://mediccreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/synthroid.html no prescription pharmacy and  Nov-Dec 2012), neither of which matches today’s in length.  Widex jumped in with a bunch of patents, Samsung won most innovative

On January 1, Hearing Economics took a stab at describing the $31M award in damages against William Demant and Widex for “willful infringement” of patent technology that reduces hearing aid feedback.{{1}}[[1]]Widex A/S and Widex USA, Inc. v. Energy Transportation Group, Inc., No. 12-1136[[1]] Click on these links to read the Oct 12 2012 opinion or hear the fascinating audio of oral arguments in the US

If a business is constantly struggling with its bottom line, this could create long-term problems from which it might not recover.   buy zoloft online zoloft online generic How dreary.  I promise to move to more upbeat topics soon. But for now, it’s Cash Flow problems–shorthand for “constantly struggling with the bottom line.”  Cash Flow was discussed in general last

Lots of small businesses fail but not for lack of successful services and products.  Those may be stellar, but it’s the ebb and flow of cash that sinks or floats your practice.  Over 60% of business failures occur because cash flow slows to a trickle, crashes against the rocks, hits the rapids, whirlpools, floods the delta, disappears  down a sink

Audiologists are on the low end of the pay scale compared to similar doctoring professions.  Independent of profession, women get paid less than men. The higher the educational level, the bigger the gender wage gap. Those are generalized facts from recent posts.  It doesn’t take a genius to figure out the next step in the analysis:  the Audiology profession is overwhelmingly

Ryan Kalef returns as today’s Guest Editor.  Regular readers of Hearing Economics recall Ryan as the intrepid reporter who slogs through the north lands,  sending brief dispatches of what’s up in Canadian Audiology.  Ryan and the TV program he mentions touch on a host of economic issues of interest to Hearing Economics — including “Country Pricing”  and lack of price transparency.

Investing in a doctoring degree in Audiology hinges on expectations and outcomes that should be anchored in real data.  We’re not there yet, but discussing it is a start.  Last week left off here:  it boils down to  doing a self-examination of expectations and anticipations in order to forecast whether the graduate degree is a good or poor investment.  The

  Should female wannabe Audiologists skip years of schooling and expensive AuD programs and go to work at Beltone instead? It’s an unacceptable question in polite Audiology society, but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be asked.  With AAA just around the corner, it seems like a good time to start this discussion.  Oddly, my fellow editor David Kirkwood had thoughts

Premium Pricing for major technological innovations raised average prices of hearing aids by about $1000 from 1994 to 2011, as shown in a previous post and reproduced above. The Data   Fig 1 was derived from the numbers contained in Table 1, footnoted to explain origins, derivations, and assumptions.  Nominal average Price (left column of Table 1) from 1980-1999 was