Ep. 2020-6.1: BONUS Interview with Kat Penno and Mark Truong

How can you create a sustainable teleaudiology business model? Kat Penno and Mark Truong discuss the challenges and opportunities in adapting telehealth technologies and empowering patients to "own" their hearing care. Read the transcript here.

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