Is it better to get a hearing aid inside a hospital or outside a fitting center?

Sharing some of my experience and international and domestic industry standards, I hope to help you choose a hearing aid dispensing organization.

1, whether the license is complete

Entering the hearing aid store, is to check its "business license" "tax registration permit and" "medical equipment business license" manufacturer's official authorization, which is every hearing aid This is every hearing aid business place must have, usually posted in a conspicuous place, a glance can be seen. Important, because hearing aids are 2 and medical devices, each hearing aid business store must have a medical device business license to open. The official authorization of the manufacturer is to see the point is not through the head office of the real recognition of the center, in order to see the dispenser has a hearing aid dispenser qualification certificate, hearing aid dispenser must be trained to obtain a certificate of qualification before the external service to pay attention to the matters written in the license is true, for example, you can see the address written on the license is whether you walk into this store. For the unlicensed store, the boss may say that the license is being processed, then you will wait for the process to be completed and then come to the store. If the owner blurts out that "no license is required at this location," then you can leave right away.

2, whether the hardware is complete

Audiometer, programmer (including wire and computer, etc.), audiometric room and hearing aid simulator: this is a hearing aid store to the minimum hardware, although there are a lot of hearing aids have a built-in audiometer, but because of the narrow bandwidth, difficult to measure the threshold of discomfort, can not be measured bone conduction and other shortcomings in the assessment of hearing can not be replaced by an audiometer. Moreover, if there is no audiometer, it also shows that the store is too weak. The choice is risky. Hearing aid simulator is to simulate the effect of the hearing aid you wear, customized machine are not ready-made machine for you to try, so the effect of how to rely on the simulator to the first audio, but the cost is very high, the general hearing aid stores are not equipped.

So, if you have the above four components, the hardware can be qualified, the patient can continue to consider the machine. If any of these four pieces are missing, you can also be ready to go.

3, software is good

Software includes the dispenser's technology and service aspects:

4, service

Service can be specifically subdivided into the service program and service attitude.

Services include pure tone audiometry, bone conduction audiometry, hearing aid cleaning and maintenance, eardrum production, hearing aid effect assessment, discomfort threshold ...... and so on, which depends on whether the hardware is complete, the coquettish woman can't cook without rice, if there is no audiometer, and then the good scientist can't be measured ah.