Dr. Brian Urban - Technology for Managing Audiology Practices

Dr. Brian Urban is the Co-founder of CounselEAR, an online tool that allows audiologists to customize and create unique counseling summaries and audiological reports. He is the former Owner/Audiologist at Advanced Hearing and Balance Center and spent time as the President of the Academy of Doctors of Audiology.

Dr. Urban is well-experienced in balance function assessment, newborn hearing screening, aural rehabilitation, hearing aid fitting, and student supervision.

For the medical field, technology does not always keep up with the pace of consumers and research. Businesses invest incredible sums of money into the development of new technology, but those same incentives don’t always translate to audiology practices. While hearing technology is continuously growing, there are other sectors experiencing growth as well.

CounselEAR is a software developed by an audiologist to simplify patient counseling. Both co-founders saw the need in clinics for better communication and more elegant technology and decided to create their own platform. So how does their software work for audiologists?

In this episode of the ListenUp! Podcast, Dr. Mark Syms talks with Dr. Brian Urban, President of Co-founder of CounselEAR, about the platform and what it does. They go through Dr. Urban’s background in audiology, the gaps in technology for clinics, and how the system helps patients. The two also discuss the challenges of the business and how the technology has evolved over time.