Sonic Innovations Launches Conforma Digital Hearing Aid At AAA Meeting
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Sonic Innovations initiated a full U.S. market launch of it's Conforma digital hearing aid at the American Academy of Audiology convention in Chicago March 16, following a test-marketing program directed at 20 hearing centers in Arizona, Florida and Tennessee begun in December.
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