Hearing testing has traditionally been a specialist service, provided exclusively by trained audiologists in a hospital setting.
And while sophisticated audiology practices provide critical healthcare services for patients with hearing loss, this traditional pathway to care presents several challenges, including a shortage of trained professionals, a lack of accessibility to care centers, long wait times for appointments or treatment, and high costs.
Modern solutions, like AUDIMETROID, offer reliable alternatives for patients with hearing loss to access critical care without the hassle of an appointment or hospital visit. But AUDIMETROID is more than just an alternative pathway to care — it’s a technology that offers tangible benefits to both audiologists and hospitals, alike.
Below, we review three key benefits that AUDIMETROID offers to hospitals and audiologists.
AUDIMETROID acts as a quasi-triage for audiologists.
AUDIMETROID delivers results that surpass clinical levels of accuracy. Plus, AUDIMETROID is purpose-built to make it easy and fast for community healthcare providers to recommend the most appropriate course of action to patients with regards to their treatment.
For example: If a patient is identified as having mild-to-moderate hearing loss, the community healthcare provider or retailer deploying the test can make appropriate suggestions for treatment, such as suggesting OTC hearing aids. If a patient is identified as having more serious hearing loss, they can be referred to an audiologist for onward testing and care.
In this way, AUDIMETROID can be viewed as a quasi-triage for audiology departments. By making it possible for community healthcare providers and retailers to more accurately, more easily identify clinical pathways, AUDIMETROID can help enhance the efficiency of the entire hearing care journey, from testing through to onward care and treatment.
AUDIMETROID has the potential to reduce patient backlog for over-leveraged audiology departments.
Due to the manner in which AUDIMETROID can help funnel patients to audiologists as a type of triaging tool, it has the potential to help reduce patient backlog for under-staffed, over-leveraged audiology departments. Plus, as hearing testing becomes more accessible and popular in community settings, audiologists can expect their patient list to become more relevant and targeted: Instead of seeing all patients, including those who do not require an audiologist’s attention, they will primarily see patients that require specialist help.
Further, AUDIMETROID can enable on-the-spot hearing testing, and help to drive uptake of OTC hearing aids. Both of these unique benefits may have positive implications beyond delivering more accessible, more affordable treatment to patients. By making it easier for patients who will benefit from OTC hearing aids to actually obtain them, AUDIMETROID can help to ensure positive overall health and lifestyle outcomes for people with mild to moderate hearing loss: Early management of hearing loss is the only way to ensure that patients can remain active and engaged, thus reducing the likelihood of social isolation and the conditions or consequences which can flow from unmanaged hearing loss, including depression, dementia, and a reduced ability to communicate or work.
AUDIMETROID drives meaningful dialogue about hearing care in communities.
Finally, AUDIMETROID is a conversation-starter. As new, exciting, effective technology, AUDIMETROID is a useful tool for driving education of hearing loss and hearing care in communities. And by opening the door to these conversations and interactions, AUDIMETROID is doing more than just changing the narrative around hearing loss and hearing testing, it’s helping to forge new pathways to critical community care that are more easily navigable than they’ve ever been before.
AUDIMETROID is changing the way that the world tests for hearing loss. But AUDIMETROID is not a substitute for traditional pathways to care, it’s a complementary approach that will maximize the amount of patients who are able to access the testing and treatment that they need.
To learn more about how your team can leverage the power of community-based hearing testing to create better outcomes for patients, and drive benefits for audiologists and hospitals alike, simply get in touch and a member of our team would love to speak with you.