SECAUCUS, N.J., Feb. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Panasonic
Healthcare Group today announced a new distribution agreement with
The Hearing Shop, an online supplier for the hearing professional,
which will allow licensed dispensers and audiologists to purchase
Panasonic products at www.panasonic-hearingshop.com. This is
the first time that Panasonic digital hearing instruments will be
available for hearing care professionals to order
online.
The Hearing Shop is the first independent wholesale hearing aid
site and is specifically designed for hearing care professionals to
quickly and effortlessly order hearing products- with the simple
click of a mouse. The site offers the entire line of
Panasonic digital hearing instruments and accessories, including
the new R1-W series, and also provides an online resource for
product training and marketing material.
"A changing market requires new thinking and evolving our
business to meet our customer's demands," said Delain D. Wright, Director of Sales, Panasonic
Healthcare Group. "Panasonic and The Hearing Shop are on the
forefront of this changing industry by offering hearing
professionals the opportunity to order Panasonic digital hearing
instruments through an online store. Working with Sycle.net
opens up a range of other opportunities such as integrating the
purchase of Panasonic digital hearing aids through a hearing
professional's office management system, offering customers an easy
and seamless way to shop."
Based in San Francisco, CA,
Sycle.net, a leading office and patient management system and lead
generation service, has brought together the power of the Panasonic
brand with the ease of ordering through The Hearing Shop.
"Sycle.net has always been on the forefront of technological
advances, which result in making the lives of hearing care
professionals easier," said Tom
Harris, Product Development Manager, Sycle.net. "Our
mission has always been to free up the provider's time so they can
spend more time with their patients. We are confident
this new venture between Panasonic Healthcare Group and The Hearing
Shop will do just that. Sycle.net is glad to be
involved in the marketing initiatives for this project and hopes it
brings value to our users."
Licensed hearing care professionals can visit
www.panasonic-hearingshop.com to learn more and purchase Panasonic
digital hearing instruments.
About Panasonic's Healthcare Group
Based in Secaucus, NJ Panasonic
Healthcare Group is a business group within Panasonic Corporation
of North America. Bringing together Panasonic's expertise in
a wide range of health and medical device technologies, the
business unit develops products for the healthcare industry related
to hearing care and diagnostic devices. For more information
visit
http://www.panasonic.com/business/medicalvideo/hearing-aids/index.asp
or www.panasonic.com/cardiohealthstation
Based in Secaucus, NJ,
Panasonic Corporation of North
America provides a broad line of digital and other
electronics products and services for consumer, business and
industrial use. The company is the principal North American
subsidiary of Osaka, Japan-based
Panasonic Corporation (NYSE: PC), and the hub of Panasonic's U.S.
branding, marketing, sales, service and R&D operations.
Panasonic was the only Consumer Electronics brand to be listed in
the top ten brands on the Interbrand Best Global Green Brands 2011
ranking
(http://www.interbrand.com/en/best-global-brands/Best-Global-Green-Brands/2011-Report/BestGlobalGreenBrandsTable-2011.aspx).
About The Hearing Shop
The Hearing Shop is an independent, third party distributor of
Panasonic hearing aids focused on streamlining hearing aid
transactions online. The Hearing Shop has taken the
e-commerce shopping model people have become accustomed to and
created a portal where hearing care professionals can easily
purchase the newest technology from Panasonic to help improve their
patient's lives.
About Sycle.net
Sycle.net, the number one hearing care practice management
system, has been empowering health care providers to grow their
businesses and help more patients for nearly a decade. With over
6,000 practices utilizing their software everyday all across the
globe, Sycle continually releases new product enhancements to keep
their users one step ahead of the game, allowing them to spend more
time with patients. Sycle.net's current suite of fully
integrated Audiology specific products and services
includes; Sycle.net Practice Management, Patient
Financing, Sales Generation, Sycle Marketing Group, E-Claims, Sycle
NOAH Sync, CounselEAR Integration and QuickBooks Synchronization.
All of these products and services support Sycle's mission to save
hearing care providers time, which will ultimately allow them to
help more people.
SOURCE Panasonic