Is it time for hearing aids to be sold over the counter in Pharmacies?

Posted on May 8, 2017 by

Screen Shot 2017-05-08 at 11.00.11

“Four out of five older Americans with hearing loss just ignore it, in part because a hearing aid is an unwelcome sign of aging. But what if hearing aids looked like stylish fashion accessories and could be bought at your local pharmacy like reading glasses?”

Screen Shot 2017-05-08 at 11.08.12

mHealth Insights

Rather than thinking of a ‘hearing aid’ as a ‘fashion accessory’ to be sold by pharmacists I think we need to think of a ‘hearing aide’ as a ‘productivity and accessibility accessory’ for our smartphones sold to us and supported by smart mobile brands that citizens trust like Apple.

Related Posts:

Why would Apple make a wristwatch or pair of glasses when smart earbuds could let them cannabalise the $10 Billion hearing aid industry? (Feb 2014)

Smartphones will reinvent & multiply the Hearing Aid market rather than cannibalise it (May 2014)

A few mHealth Insights into the Apple Watch (Sept, 2014)

Apple CEO thinks mHealth revenues will dwarf the $Trillion Smartphone market (Aug 2016)

The end of Smartphone innovation or is it? (March 2017)

About 3G Doctor

The Corporate Blog of 3G Doctor
This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Google+ photo

You are commenting using your Google+ account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s