Tuned Receives $3.5 Million in Funding to Shape the Future of Hearing Wellness
With a dedicated focus on hearing care, the funding will strengthen Tuned’s ability to bridge the gap between audiologists and the general public as a key employee benefit
Tuned, a digital hearing health company focused on providing hearing care for all, today announced that it raised $3.5 million in funding led by Distributed Ventures with participation from Idealab NY and Elements Health Ventures. The funding will support Tuned’s mission to make comprehensive hearing care as affordable and accessible as possible while enabling the platform to be offered as a key employee benefit from 2023 onward.
“This funding...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Affordable Care Affordable Healthcare Audiology Danny Aronson Digital Health Digital Hearing Health Distributed Ventures Elements Health Ventures FDA Food and Drug Administration Health IT Funding Source Type: blogs
Overcoming Mental Blocks
Recently I’ve been pondering how our mind’s expectations often block us from experiencing more richness and possibility. Even when we set goals and invite new desires, we can easily stop ourselves from taking accessible actions to advance. This month I ran into my own personal example of this phenomenon.
One aspirational goal that I set months ago was to eventually do an hour-long group training session at my gym called UltraFit. That class looked intimidating from the online videos I’d seen of it. You can see the description on the UltraFit web page if you’re curious, with lines like “Our ...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - February 9, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Creating Reality Health Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 16th 2023
Conclusions
Implanted Hair Follicle Cells Produce Remodeling of Scar Tissue
Assessment of Somatic Mosaicism as a Biomarker of Aging
The Gut Microbiome of Centenarians
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2023/01/the-gut-microbiome-of-centenarians/
The state of the gut microbiome is arguably as influential on health as exercise. Various microbial species present in the gut produce beneficial metabolites, such as butyrate, or harmful metabolites, such as isoamylamine, or can provoke chronic inflammation in a variety of ways. An individual can have a better or worse microbiome, assessing these and other...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 15, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Evidence for Age-Related Hearing Loss to Contribute to Cognitive Impairment
This study provides (to the authors' knowledge) the first quantitative evidence that the diagnosis of dementia is associated with subsequent lower persistence of hearing-aid use. This may be due to reduced abilities to perform instrumental activities, or diverse other mechanisms, including memory problems, reduced motivation to engage in social interaction, and carers prioritising other aspects of care.
Link: https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afac266 (Source: Fight Aging!)
Source: Fight Aging! - January 11, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Aging in Place or Assisted Living: It's About Choices
It's not hard to understand why 60-year-olds would say that they want to remain in their home for life rather than move to assisted living or a nursing home. These are generally people who are relatively healthy and feel that they can hire help for whatever they need down the road.
Indeed, aging in place sounds like a wonderful concept. What could possibly be wrong with it? The Washington Post interviewed Stephen M. Golant, a University of Florida professor of gerontology, about the trend. Golant views the current. He feels that people should have choices and that aging in place is just one of them. Golant said in the int...
Source: Minding Our Elders - November 10, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
The Art of The Nasopharyngeal Airway
I would surely rank the nasopharyngeal airway (NPA) as one of the most under-rated / under-utilized pieces of equipment in the EMT bag of tricks. They’re useful, simple and versatile. As a group, we tend to do a pretty good job oxygenating our patients, but I think we drop the ball on BLS airway adjuncts.
Most of our unresponsive or semi-responsive patients should be arriving at the ER with an NPA in place. If you’re bagging a patient they should have one … maybe two NPAs in place.
They’re fast, they’re friendly, they work much better on the semi-conscious and they don’t stim...
Source: The EMT Spot - November 2, 2022 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Steve Whitehead Tags: EMT Source Type: blogs
The 26 Best Poems About Life of All Time
In today’s post I want to share timeless poems about love, happiness, death and beauty.
These are 26 of the best poems about life of all time (in my opinion).
Some from recent times. Some from several hundred years ago.
I hope you’ll find these poems as beautiful and insightful about living life, common life struggles and the fleeting nature of our existence as I have. And that at least one or a few of them will help you to understand yourself a bit better or to improve today in some way.
And if you want even more timeless inspiration then check out this post with quotes on inner peace and also this one filled with un...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - October 28, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs
OTC Hearing Aids —Did the FDA Give Patients Access with One Hand and Take Access Away with the Other?
Jeffrey A. SingerOctober 17, 2022 marked the day that hearing aids became available over the counter to people over age 18 with mild ‐to‐moderate hearing loss. TheOver ‐the‐Counter Hearing Aid Act of 2017, a rider to theFDA Reauthorization Act of 2017, ordered the Food and Drug Administration to create a new category, OTC hearing aids, as devices that use air conduction to improve hearing for people in the above category.This good news can make hearing aids more affordable and accessible for an estimated30 million people who suffer from hearing loss. Opening this market will generate competiti...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 18, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
Hearing is connected to well-being [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! “As an audiologist, treating hearing loss is a part of my everyday life. Even still, I’m sometimes amazed at the difference hearing aids can make in patients’ lives. For example, recently, when an older patient with longstanding hearing loss was fitted with a pair
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Hearing is connected to well-being [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 17, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Otolaryngology Source Type: blogs
A Story from the Sandwich Generation: Caring for Kids and Parents
Discussions with Elders about HousingCaregiving Shouldn't Be Competitive but It Can Feel That Way at TimesChallenges of The Journey Toward Menopause – and After (Source: Minding Our Elders)
Source: Minding Our Elders - October 15, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
PatientPoint Acquires Rendia to Accelerate Expansion into Ophthalmology Specialty
Acquisition will help speed point-of-care leader’s expansion into new high-value specialties
PatientPoint today announced the acquisition of Rendia, the No. 1 provider of point-of-care content for eye care providers sold on a subscription basis. With PatientPoint’s expansion into ophthalmology and optometry, PatientPoint’s industry-leading, tech-enabled point-of-care network now engages healthcare providers and patients across 20 medical specialties.
Rendia’s robust point-of-care engagement software helps 8,000+ eye care providers improve patient outcomes, enhance the patient experience and generate incremental rev...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 11, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Mike Collette Ophthalmology Optometry PatientPoint Point of Care Point-of-Care Content Point-of-Care Engagement Software Ren Source Type: blogs
Aging in Place or Assisted Living: It's About Choices
It's not hard to understand why 60-year-olds would say that they want to remain in their home for life rather than move to assisted living or a nursing home. These are generally people who are relatively healthy and feel that they can hire help for whatever they need down the road.
Indeed, aging in place sounds like a wonderful concept. What could possibly be wrong with it? The Washington Post interviewed Stephen M. Golant, a University of Florida professor of gerontology, about the trend. Golant views the current. He feels that people should have choices and that aging in place is just one of them. Golant said in the int...
Source: Minding Our Elders - October 11, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Veteran Caregiver for Multiple Elders Tells It Like It Is
When I first started sharing my stories and looking for others who had similar tales to tell, people tended to be reticent about speaking up. Now, sharing caregiver "in the trenches" stories has become a major part of caregiver self-care and even survival.
Because of my long Internet history, I'm often interviewed in print and on radio. A recent radio interview on a show called "Doing What Works," hosted by Maureen Anderson, touched on many topics that I've written about for Healthcentral.com over time, so I'm sharing links to those stories here for those who want to dig deeper.
The first question Maureen asked is how my...
Source: Minding Our Elders - October 8, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Changing Our Approach Together: How Health Data Can Advance Health Equity
The following is a guest article by Tina Feldmann, VP of Corporate & Product Marketing at Kno2.
The content of this article is taken from a panel Kno2 hosted as part of the recent Civitas Networks for Health 2022 Annual Conference, in collaboration with DirectTrust™ within a track dedicated to the sharing of health data to advance health equity. “This health data session led by Kno2, a long-time member of DirectTrust and a new member of Civitas Networks for Health, gave a great overview of how the health IT industry can help facilitate the shift to informed, whole-person care,” said Scott Stuewe, DirectTr...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 6, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability LTPAC AdventHealth Carrie O’Connell CIvitas Common Sense Medicine directtrust Dr. Peter Schoch Florida Hospital Physician Network Health Equity Health Informat Source Type: blogs
