Audiologists and their patients are frequently frustrated with traditional wired audiology equipment, which causes patients to be tethered to the equipment during exams and testing. Thankfully, audiology is changing and is stepping into the wireless era, providing clinicians and patients with more comfort, freedom, and flexibility during appointments.
Wireless technology is changing healthcare, including hearing care, helping industry professionals improve patient care and comfort and streamline hearing care professionals’ daily work.
The Tangled Web of Traditional Audiology
Challenges with Wired Equipment
Patients often experience discomfort and inconvenience due to cables flowing around them during hearing tests and fittings.
Wired equipment – and the need to be tethered to measurement equipment during an exam – can lead to patient discomfort and a less-than-optimal clinical environment. Wired equipment typically needs to stay in one place in the exam room and can’t easily be moved around.
Beyond this, one of the biggest advantages of going wireless is fewer (i.e. none) broken cables. Transducer wires are well-known for their tendency to break, which can cause unwanted interruptions in the clinical workflow and erroneous measurement results.
Additionally, wire-free technology offers clinical environments a more streamlined, clean appearance. While the existing tangled mess of wires can make your exam room look sloppy and cluttered, wireless creates comfortable, welcoming screening environments. Cutting the cords can dramatically streamline your workflow, as you’ll benefit from easier setup, fewer technical interruptions, and more focus on patient care.
Impact on the Audiologist Experience
There’s potential for technical issues – such as tangled wires, limited mobility, and longer setup times – when using audiology equipment with cables. A plethora of wires also looks messy and chaotic in audiology exam rooms.
Audiologists constantly have to adjust the patient, switch transducers, and thoroughly clean any equipment (including cables) that touch the patient.
It's time to get untangled to improve the patient experience – and provide more freedom and flexibility in your exams.
The Promise of Wireless Technology
Introducing Wireless Hearing Care
Healthcare technology is rapidly advancing, with exciting innovations dramatically improving the industry. One of the most promising advancements is the Wireless Healthcare Market, which is currently estimated at $164.39 billion and expected to expand dramatically to $408.21 billion by 2029. The wireless healthcare market is being driven by the rise in connected devices, increased digitization, advancements in wireless technology, and the growing demand for high-quality healthcare that optimizes patient outcomes and experiences. For instance, hospitals are increasingly relying on advanced wireless technologies to operate more efficiently, provide exceptional care, and improve the patient experience.
Going wireless can start a new wave of improvements for both clinicians and patients. It also helps give patients what they expect and demand, because when they go to a clinic – and pay money for healthcare services – they expect to have a pleasant experience. Patient expectations are changing in healthcare, and audiology must keep up.
Across healthcare, wireless technology is improving patient safety, increasing accuracy, reducing errors, improving data collection, and remotely monitoring patients. Pioneering advancements include wireless equipment, medication monitoring, wearable technology, and even wireless ingestible devices that are improving care delivery, patient experiences, and outcomes.
Wireless Technology in Audiology
Wireless developments are propelling innovation in the audiology sector, and the latest offerings – such as wireless hearing aid verification and wireless transducers – have many valuable features and benefits that are enabled by wireless connectivity.
Auditdata is improving the audiology care journey by providing cutting-edge solutions for hearing care professionals.
Auditdata’s new wireless Real Ear Measurement (REM) Probes are cutting-edge, user-friendly equipment capable of performing accurate measurements – and a more comfortable patient experience. Auditdata’s Wireless REM Probes provide accuracy, reliability, and increased patient comfort. The only thing we’ve cut is the cord! Our Wireless REM Probes offer complete freedom and flexibility during measurements, supported by a reliable wireless connection and hours of dependable and continuous operation.
Auditdata’s solution allows for wireless hearing aid fitting that’s accurate and comfortable, and improves a variety of key metrics, including patient outcomes, experiences, satisfaction, loyalty, retention, and referrals. The advantages of wireless REM probes for fittings include helping you reduce follow-up visits for adjustments (saving your clinic’s precious time and resources), hearing aid returns (helping you increase conversions, sales, and profits), and customer frustration (improving the patient experience). What’s more, using REM – widely considered to be the gold standard in hearing aid fittings – helps ensure that patients’ hearing aids will work optimally.
Free guide - Everything You Need To Know About Real Ear Measurements
Discover the Importance of Real Ear Measurements (REM)
This guide will explain the importance of real ear measurements (REMs) in modern audiology and will dispel the misconceptions that may cause audiologists to avoid this test. We will also discuss the process for REMs, and the benefits of this approach.
Key Benefits of Switching to Wireless REM
If your clinic is weighing the pros and cons of wireless hearing aid fittings, cutting the cord comes with many important benefits, as clinicians can:
Enjoy freedom of movement. Patients can move more naturally during tests sessions, leading to more accurate results and more comfortable experiences. Going wireless offers accurate fittings with more freedom and flexibility for hearing care professionals and their patients.
Streamline workflows. When using wireless solutions, clinicians benefit from easier setup, fewer technical interruptions, and more focus on patient care.
Decrease mess. Enjoy tidy, convenient testing and fitting without the mess of tangled wires running across your clinic.
Enjoy reliability. Auditdata’s new wireless REM solution offers ample battery life for precise, seamless measurements and hours of dependable, continuous operation. Moreover, since transducers are used so extensively, cables tend to break, which can cause interruption in clinical work, and erroneous measurement results.”
Improve care. This innovative technology helps elevate audiology practices and enhance patient satisfaction.
Increase patient comfort. With a cabled REM probe, there’s a constant battle with getting caught in patients’ hair and clothing, and potentially with hearing aids, too. Auditdata’s new Wireless REM Probe eliminates these issues and elevates patient comfort.
Save time. Less battle with cables means more time savings for clinicians. The fully functional, wireless equipment makes fitting appointments easier and more streamlined for clinicians. Since clinicians must stand up and sit down to adjust the patient, removing the cables saves time – and makes it easier to not trip over the wires. It also makes home visits more efficient. Plugging and unplugging cables can take time, so wireless options are perfect for mobile hearing aid fittings because clinicians don’t need to plug and unplug.
Improve infection control. Hearing care professionals must clean anything that touches the patient. Removing the wires makes it easier to clean thoroughly, and since clinicians don’t have to clean the cables, it saves time.
Boost continuous usability. The wireless REM probe and the test workflows are identical to our wired REM probe, ensuring maximum usability with little or no training.
Streamlined pairing process. It’s easy to pair a Wireless REM probe with the fitting unit, and the probes won’t connect to other wireless devices. The REM probe also includes LED indicators, which show the state of the probe, so clinicians don’t have to look at the software all the time.
Measure Wireless
Experience the Future of Hearing Care with REM Probes
Experience wireless fittings with our first fully Wireless REM Probe solution.
This innovative tool is designed to simplify Real Ear Measurements and provide a better experience for both patients and clinicians. It connects effortlessly with our stylish, stackable Measure audiometer and fitting unit, providing a solution that maximizes clinic space, improves diagnostic accuracy, and enhances patient care.
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