Ear surgeons launch app for smartphones

Staff report

WARREN

Dr. William H. Lippy, one of the foremost surgeons in the field of hearing restoration, announced that he and his partner, Dr. Leonard Berenholz, through their nonprofit organization, the Warren Hearing Foundation, have mobilized their medical-practice website, www.LippyGroup.com.

People now will have worldwide access to the website, including their online videos, using any smartphone.

“The opportunity to provide access to our website for all smartphones, including the ability to watch videos related to our Hearing Aid Center and Physicians Library, acknowledges our views on using technology to educate our patients and physicians worldwide,” Dr. Lippy said.

Dr. Lippy’s son, David, who has provided eMarketing solutions to the practice for many years, had been urging the practice to consider taking the necessary steps that would allow all smartphone users the ability to access everything on The Lippy Group website.

The app would include the 26 physician videos and the six hearing-aid center videos.

“With more smartphones being sold now than PCs, it’s clear where and how we need to make our website information available,” David Lippy said. “A mobilized site provides us the opportunity for Drs. Lippy and Berenholz’s work to have an impact on a worldwide basis. To help make this happen for the practice is an awesome feeling.”

Dr. Lippy is an internationally recognized expert in stapedectomy surgery for the treatment of deafness. He has performed thousands of stapedectomies, a surgery replacing one of the three tiny bones in the middle ear, the stapes bone, with a prosthesis to restore hearing.

Dr. Berenholz is one of the leading surgeons for the placement of a device known as the bone- anchored hearing aid. The surgically placed device helps patients who have single-sided deafness or who are not reconstruction candidates and cannot benefit from a typical hearing aid, according to a press release on The Lippy Group.