Hearing aid app perfects your ReSound device wherever you are

If you or a loved one use a hearing aid, you can now control it anywhere using your phone & a hearing aid app. Here’s how:

Hearing loss is one of the most prevalent chronic health conditions, affecting more than 500 million people worldwide who experience it in some degree. Moreover, the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders estimates that one in three people in the US between the ages of 65 and 74 has hearing loss, and nearly half of individuals older than 75 have difficulty hearing.

ReSound hearing aid app iPhone 1 In an effort to help people with hearing loss and bring telehealth to audiology, ReSound launched its LiNX 3D hearing aid and its accompanying ReSound Smart 3D app in 2017. The company claims Smart 3D is the first hearing aid app with remote fine-tuning capabilities.

Together, these innovations allow hearing aid wearers to request and download software adjustments from their hearing care provider (HCP) to their hearing aids from anywhere securely through the cloud.

Hearing aid app benefits

ReSound Smart 3D leverages the company’s proprietary ReSound Smart Fit software to meet these needs, and brings with it unprecedented benefits to individuals with hearing loss. With a built-in guidance and remote assistance feature, ReSound Smart 3D also gives users direct access to their HCP for efficient, on-the-go optimization.

HCPs will typically see clients for four to seven fine-tuning appointments after an initial hearing aid fitting. Making these adjustments through the cloud via an app to ReSound LiNX 3D hearing aids greatly reduces the amount of time users spend making and traveling to appointments, while allowing professionals more time to dedicate to their practice and valuable user counselling.

While ReSound’s cloud-based teleaudiology can greatly improve the lives of all people with hearing loss, the feature is particularly helpful for users who have limited mobility, live in rural areas, are constantly traveling, or need to commute long distances to visit their HCP, to name a few.

ReSound hearing aid app iPhone 2 While anyone would enjoy the increased convenience ReSound LiNX 3D provides, it can be life-changing for this subset of individuals with unique needs.

The ReSound Smart 3D app allows users to personalize their ReSound LiNX 3D hearing aids directly from their smartphone or Apple Watch themselves based on their current listening environment.

The hearing aid app lets you easily personalize sound preferences, geotag settings for favorite locations. Users can also stream conversations and music from a smartphone to their ReSound LiNX 3D hearing aids.

The ReSound hearing aid app is a “Best of 2017” Mobile Star Awards Winner, and is available in Apple’s App Store or Google Play Store.

ReSound says its Smart 3D app is part of its new comprehensive telehealth offering for hearing aid wearers. You can also follow or connect with ReSound GN below.