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MED-EL is the world’s leading hearing implant company, helping the world hear through cochlear implants and other innovations. Find our latest press releases, images, company information, and contact details below.
Press Releases
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World Listening Day 2025: How Hearing Loss Affects Relationships – and What We Can Do About It
Jul 18, 2025
On World Listening Day 2025, MED-EL highlights how hearing loss deeply affects relationships – and how restoring hearing can rebuild connection, communication, and quality of life.
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Healthcare 2035: MED-EL Survey Explores the Global Patient Demand for AI, Robotics, and Digital Care Solutions in Hearing Care
Jul 7, 2025
A global MED-EL survey reveals that people expect the future of healthcare to be driven by digital tools, AI, and robotics, highlighting a growing demand for smarter, more personalized, and tech-enabled care solutions.
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What is Next for Hearing Care? MED-EL’s "Hearing Beyond Tomorrow" Report Offers a Vision for AI, Robotics, Product Management, and Advanced Manufacturing
Jun 24, 2025
MED-EL’s new report "Hearing Beyond Tomorrow" offers a visionary look at how AI, robotics, inclusive design, and advanced manufacturing are transforming the future of hearing healthcare.
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From Idea to Impact: MED-EL Celebrates Global Winners of IDEASforEARS Contest
Jun 18, 2025
Bringing together young inventors from across the globe, the IDEASforEARS 2025 event in Innsbruck – hosted by MED-EL in partnership with Microsoft – celebrated creativity, inclusion, and innovation in hearing technology.
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Corporate Information
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Company Profile
Jan 8, 2025
MED-EL, headquartered in Innsbruck, Austria, is a leading provider of hearing implant systems. The privately-owned business was founded by Ingeborg and Erwin Hochmair in the 1980s. Today, MED-EL offers the widest range of implantable and non-implantable solutions for various types and degrees of hearing loss.
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Dr Ingeborg Hochmair
Sep 1, 2023
Ingeborg Hochmair is the CEO of MED-EL, an industry leader in implantable hearing solutions. She co-founded the company with her husband, Erwin Hochmair, and they hired their first employees in 1990. Today, the company is still privately run, with its global headquarters located in Innsbruck, Austria.
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MED-EL’s hearing systems
Sep 1, 2023
MED-EL is a pioneer in the field of implantable hearing solutions. In 1977, the world’s first micro-electronic multi-channel cochlear implant, developed by MED-EL’s founders, Ingeborg and Erwin Hochmair, was implanted in Vienna for the first time. This milestone was the birth of the modern cochlear implant and today, over 40 years later, the privately-owned business continues to set new standards in the provision of innovative solutions for people affected by hearing loss.
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