In many communities, hearing loss goes unnoticed and untreated—not because solutions don’t exist, but because people don’t seek them. That’s the gap we aimed to bridge with our recent pilot project at Aberdeen Sports Village (ASV), a leading leisure centre in Scotland. The concept was simple: bring proactive hearing checks into a setting where peopleContinueContinue reading “Bringing Hearing Care to Where People Are: How HearLead Transformed Hearing Checks at a Leisure Centre”
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Are Headphones Changing the Way Young People Hear the World?
We set out to validate our hearing screener, which uses a spatial-hearing paradigm to detect hearing loss. We didn’t expect young adults to have any trouble with the test. After all, most research suggests they should perform well—if not better than older adults—on tasks involving binaural processing. But that’s not what we found. In ourContinueContinue reading “Are Headphones Changing the Way Young People Hear the World?”
The effects of hearing loss on communities
The impact of hearing loss on communities is profound. From resulting health issues outside of hearing loss, to economic impact, the effects of hearing loss can be devastating. Hearing loss does not always behave as an isolated health issue. Often, hearing loss—especially when left undiagnosed or untreated—results in other health issues, including communication difficulties, socialContinueContinue reading “The effects of hearing loss on communities”
Three ways that AUDIMETROID is changing the way the world tests for hearing loss
AUDIMETROID is the world’s first purpose-built, accurate hearing testing technology for community healthcare providers. It’s a scaleable, cost-effective solution specifically designed for fast and easy adoption that drives immediate, visible health and economic impact. By making reliable hearing testing more accessible than ever before, AUDIMETROID unlocks real opportunities for improved healthcare in your community. HereContinueContinue reading “Three ways that AUDIMETROID is changing the way the world tests for hearing loss”
Creating opportunities for care: the impact of easy, fast hearing loss testing
Hearing testing isn’t accessible enough, but the problem is solvable. 80% of adults with symptoms fail to seek help for otherwise treatable hearing loss. Many delay treatment until their hearing loss has progressed to a point where communication is difficult or even impossible. The reasons that an individual might delay diagnosis – or even treatmentContinueContinue reading “Creating opportunities for care: the impact of easy, fast hearing loss testing”
Hearing Diagnostics meets the Women Integration Network Glasgow (WIN)
Hearing Diagnostics’ goal is to make hearing care accessible to everybody, including the least represented. To ensure Audimetroid, Hearing Diagnostics’ flagship technology, yields reliable hearing test results in individuals from different backgrounds, age groups and demographics, our Test Administrator team has been seeking out communities from diverse backgrounds. This is how we came across theContinueContinue reading “Hearing Diagnostics meets the Women Integration Network Glasgow (WIN)”
Why AUDIMETROID is critical for inclusive, community-based healthcare
Creating healthier communities starts with inclusive healthcare Hearing testing – like any other critical health screening – should employ a methodology that’s most likely to capture the most accurate results from most patients. This kind of inclusive healthcare is critical to creating healthier communities around the world. But in order to truly be inclusive, itContinueContinue reading “Why AUDIMETROID is critical for inclusive, community-based healthcare”
Hearing Diagnostics eyes market breakthrough following £1.1m funding
Hearing Diagnostics, the Edinburgh-based healthtech company, is eyeing commercialisation in the domestic and US markets following a £1.1m fundraise. Led by Archangels, the world’s longest continually running angel investment syndicate, the funding will unlock the spatial hearing screening technology’s market potential. Other funders in the raise include Scottish Enterprise through its Scottish Co-Investment Fund. HearingContinueContinue reading “Hearing Diagnostics eyes market breakthrough following £1.1m funding”
Volunteers needed for hearing test study
We are looking for volunteers to participate in the next stage of testing the accuracy and efficiency of our novel hearing test, Audimetroid. Volunteers, who will be unpaid, need to be able to attend testing sessions in either central Glasgow or Edinburgh in the months of February, March or April 2022 and meet the followingContinueContinue reading “Volunteers needed for hearing test study”