5 ways Affinity Compact streamlines the hearing care workflow

Designed to bring audiometry, hearing aid fitting, and verification together in a single intuitive platform, the Affinity Compact helps you save time, standardize procedures, and maintain focus on what matters most: the patient.

From advanced fitting tools to workflow-enhancing automation, here are five Affinity Compact features that can help streamline your daily clinical practice.

1. Audible Contrast Threshold (ACT™) test

One of the biggest challenges reported by people with hearing loss is understanding speech in noisy environments. The award-winning Audible Contrast Threshold (ACT™) test helps address this challenge by providing an objective measure of a patient's ability to hear in noise.

For selected hearing aids from Philips, Oticon, Bernafon, and Sonic, hearing aid fitting software can automatically apply the most appropriate help-in-noise settings based on the patient's ACT value.

Together with Oticon, the Interacoustics Research Unit evaluated how clinicians integrate ACT into everyday practice. Across multiple real-world clinics, 8 out of 10 clinicians reported an overall positive experience, while 9 out of 10 said they would recommend ACT to their colleagues.

Learn more in this whitepaper: ACT™ in action: Enhancing client care with the Audible Contrast Threshold (ACT) test

Related on-demand courses

• Audible Contrast Threshold: Introduction
• Beyond the Basics: Audible Contrast Threshold (ACT)

2. Coming soon: NAL-NL3

As hearing care evolves, clinicians are encountering a wider range of listening needs than traditional prescriptive formulas were designed to handle.

NAL-NL3 responds to these challenges by providing a framework that allows for more tailored hearing aid fittings, especially in areas where NAL-NL2 has known limitations, such as hearing in noise and support for individuals with normal audiograms but functional listening difficulties.

Its updated approach is intended to help clinicians make evidence-based decisions that reflect real world listening demands rather than relying on a single, generalized prescription.

Learn more about NAL-NL3 in this Interacoustics Academy course: Making the Most of Your Real Ear Measurements

3. IA-AMTAS automated audiometry

Automated audiometry is a computer-led method of performing audiometric threshold acquisition. As the method of finding a patient’s hearing threshold is procedural and follows a general flow, its logic can be automated.

With IA-AMTAS, your clients can perform audiometry on their own, while you attend to more important tasks at the same time. The result is a more efficient workflow that can help maximize appointment time without compromising testing quality.

4. Probe Placement Indicator

Accurate probe tube placement is essential for reliable real-ear measurements, yet achieving consistent placement can be challenging.

The Affinity Compact's Probe Placement Indicator makes probe tube insertion easy and consistent, using machine learning to display insertion depth in real time and providing both visual and audible feedback when the probe tube reaches the recommended depth. This supports greater consistency and confidence during the verification process.

5. Quality Assurance Indicators

Delivering a consistent standard of care across clinicians and locations can be challenging, particularly for larger organizations.

To help you maintain the exact same quality of care throughout your organization, the Affinity Compact offers audiometry and real-ear measurement Quality Assurance Indicators (also available with the Callisto™ and Equinox Evo* audiometers).

Depending on your organization’s defined protocols, you can tailor 13 audiometry and 9 REM indicators to your needs. The software will then monitor if the expected workflow is followed and provide live feedback to the hearing care professional.

This helps to mandate your testing quality throughout your stores, and your customers will be receiving the same high-quality treatment wherever they seek assistance from your brand.

*The Equinox Evo only supports the audiometry quality assurance indicators.

Considering the Affinity Compact for your organization?

Whether you're looking to improve hearing aid fitting precision, increase clinical efficiency, standardize procedures, or adopt the latest evidence-based technologies, the Affinity Compact provides a flexible platform that supports the entire hearing care journey from assessment through hearing aid fitting and verification.

Discover the Affinity Compact to learn how it could fit into your clinical practice.