IntriCon Corporation
Visual communication of hearing aid patient-specific coded information

Abstract:

A method and system visually communicates hearing aid information between a patient's smartphone and an audiologist's computer system by using a QR code captured by a camera. When the audiologist's computer system takes a picture of the QR code on the display of the patient's smartphone, the QR code contains at least one piece of audiological data representing historical or current patient-specific usage of the hearing aid. When the patient's smartphone takes a picture of the QR code on the display of the audiologist's computer system, the QR code contains audiological data, which the patient's smartphone extracts to transmit instructions or information to adjust at least one audiological parameter setting on the patient's hearing aid. The patient may transmit or receive an image file of either QR code over a network, thereby communicating the same information with the audiologist.