What makes your innovation unique?
MED-EL is the pioneer of cochlear implants (CI), middle-ear devices and bone conduction systems. Its latest developments include an improved range of products for robot-assisted surgery (HEARO, OTOARM, OTODRIVE) and supporting software for surgical planning (OTOPLAN) as well as an updated totally implantable cochlear implant (TICI).
Advantages
• The Totally Implantable Cochlear Implant (TICI) is not even externally detectable anymore.
• Numerous innovations allow people of all ages with varying degrees of hearing loss to hear again.
• These innovations increase surgical precision, ensure individualised hearing care and improve patient outcomes.
Awards
• Hearing Technology Innovation Award
• Swiss Medtech Award
• CEO Ingeborg Hochmair, Tyrolese Person of the Year 2023 (Lifetime Achievement) + IEEE Alexandra Graham Bell Medal
About the company
The Austrian company MED-EL (Medical Electronics) is a leader in implantable hearing solutions. Since the development of the first microelectronic multi-channel cochlear implant (CI) in 1977, MED-EL has been working in 137 countries around the world, providing innovative solutions for all types of hearing loss.
