THE CCA-100mini PLUS
COMPUTER-CONTROLLED AUDIOMETER
IS YOUR MOST COST-EFFECTIVE
APPROACH!

Now you can dramatically improve your testing productivity for a fraction of the cost. The CCA-100mini audiometer is designed for total testing control from your current computer, allowing for easy testing, superior data manipulation, and simple report generation. Better yet, innovative IntelliTesting™ features deliver reliable results, and data always resides in the computer for increased efficiency. For total flexibility, the CCA-100mini audiometer can store subject data and audiograms, or these can be seamlessly integrated into leading Hearing Conservation database software.

"One-button" operation addresses the need to cost-effectively and easily administer Hearing Conservation tests. And features like Plug and Play, Online Help, Lookup Lists, Field Defaults, and Data Validation bring new meaning to the term user-friendly!

The powerful Plus Package delivers additional reporting power, along with the ability to:

• Support unlimited companies
• Manage multiple programs
• Create custom medical history questionnaires, and
• Format import/export routines—with ease!

SEAMLESS INTEGRATION
MEANS “ONE-BUTTON” OPERATION

When your clinic delivers Hearing Conservation testing, your audiologists or nurses need to be “on the money,” every time. There isn’t room for error. And, as any audiologist or nurse can tell you, it’s not practical to go back on location, or request that a subject come back to your clinic for a retest.

To address your clinic’s need to cost-effectively and easily administer a hearing test with built-in safeguards, Benson Medical Instruments’ CCA-100mini Plus seamlessly integrates every function.

SIMPLE TO TEST: One push of the start button begins the test. The seamless integration of the CCA-100mini Plus does all the rest. It automatically instructs, even switching to the correct language of the subject if s/he has previously been tested; chooses the best test starting level with the OptiLevel™ feature; scans for problem thresholds, automatically retesting or flagging problems for operator semi-manual retest (where appropriate); saves the test data; and prints out the language-appropriate notification letter to be handed out to each subject before s/he leaves your clinic.

While the test is taking place, your clinic’s audiologist or nurse will be prompted to enter the subject’s information (e.g., Social Security number)—or, if the subject has been tested before, to easily select the appropriate facts from the database. This multitasking feature includes any combination of functions—your audiologist or nurse can add new information, edit data, and/or print reports—all while the Hearing Conservation test is progressing!

MANAGEMENT REPORTS FOR
MULTIPLE COMPANIES—FROM A TO Z!

Whether you’re a hospital or a community-based health-care program, an HMO/PPO, or an occupational health clinic, you need the ability to deal with multiple companies and reports. The powerful Plus Package delivers additional reporting power, allowing your audiologist or nurse to easily produce reports for an unlimited number of companies. No other audiometer allows you to do this. And this multiple-company reporting feature is extremely important if you’re marketing Hearing Conservation testing to different companies.

In addition, the largest selection of standard reports is just a button click away. Each Hearing Conservation report is available with fully incorporated demographic and exposure data. These reports include:

• Subject Notification Letter—prints a full-size letter for subject notification of the STS and medical referral results of the current test in your choice of 12 standard languages.
• Company OSHA STS List—catalogs subjects whose current test shows an OSHA STS.
• Company OSHA Recordable Shift List—names subjects whose current test shows an OSHA recordable shift.
• Company Test Schedule List—flags subjects with no test in a range of dates, or since a given date.
• Subject Averages and Impairments—shows all tests with averages, including PBI and STS calculations for the current test.
• Subject Test—displays current test with averages.
• Subject Test STS—displays current and baseline tests with averages and STS calculations.
• Subject Summary—tabulates all tests with STS analysis; provides averages and graphical audiogram for the current test.
• Company Medical Referral List—lists all subjects with a medical referral as defined by AAO-HNS 1996.
• Company Exception List—names all subjects with missing or invalid data to ensure report validity.
• Company Summary—calculates and graphs the number and percentage of subjects with hearing loss, as well as those whose current test shows an OSHA STS or recordable shift.
• Company Roster—lists all demographic and test data for each subject.
• All Company List—contains all company addresses and options.

Contact Benson Medical Instruments for sample Hearing Conservation reports. Click here.

LARGEST-FORMAT
REPORTS AVAILABLE

We've taken the time and applied the expertise to create features that really matter. Is your staff tired of squinting at and storing narrow strips of thermal paper? Even if the strips are extra wide, a three-inch width can't compete—in terms of legibility and filing ease—with a full-page Hearing Conservation report (8-1/2" x 11") that uses standard paper! Now your audiologist or nurse can easily print out full-page reports and notification letters in 12 different languages.

DON’T BE STOPPED DEAD…
IN YOUR TRACKS!

Harsh words, you might think, but pretty accurate. For instance, has your audiologist or nurse ever been stopped in the middle of testing because s/he suddenly ran out of storage space? If your clinic has an audiometer that can store only 2,000 tests, this scenario could easily happen.

Then the only solution is to strip-print the audiometric tests and file them. Unfortunately, these test results can’t be backed up on disk, and they can no longer be archived in one easy-to-access electronic location. This could become a problem, even a legal concern, if the hard-copy tests are lost or damaged.

But the CCA-100mini Plus has unlimited storage space for tests and reports so your operator will never run out of space. And simple backup makes it easy to keep an up-to-date electronic record of everything. As an integral member of a clinic management team, you’ll never be at risk if important Hearing Conservation compliance records are misplaced or destroyed—they will always be in one place and will always be protected!

EVERY PREFERRED LANGUAGE—
UNDER THE SUN!

Translates into a greater competitive advantage.

Now your clinic can make the claim: “We can test anyone in the language of their choice.” This competitive advantage will take your Hearing Conservation testing service out of the “commodity pricing” arena and into the “unique-service pricing” stratosphere.

DELIVER EVERY LANGUAGE—UNDER THE SUN! Now you can tell your patients that you can conduct Hearing Conservation tests in any language! Benson Medical Instruments offers a multilingual voice application featuring 12 standard languages, including: English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Hmong, Bosnian, Somali, French, Cambodian, Russian, Hindi, Tibetan, and German. (Click to hear sample instructions.)

TESTING IN SOMEONE’S NATIVE LANGUAGE* dramatically increases consistency and reduces administration time. Now your audiologist or nurse needn’t gesticulate to show someone how to correct an error. The CCA-100mini Plus Computer Controlled Audiometer is designed to automatically detect the nature of an error and to then send the language-specific verbal correction.

Given current nationwide immigration patterns, the need for new languages is increasing exponentially. So, within the next decade, it is likely that many new languages will be added to the standard roster.

*Note: Additional factory languages (20 more) will be routinely installed by Benson Medical Instruments in future models, as nationwide demographic trends dictate.

THE MOST USER-FRIENDLY
SYSTEM IMAGINABLE!

EASY TO OPERATE: The CCA-100mini Plus consolidates all audiometer control operations on your computer screen. Now in one easy-to-view location the following functions are simultaneously displayed (click for a screen view of the following):

• Thresholds
• Current stimulus
• On-screen audiograms and graphs
• Real-time STS calculations
• Baseline data on-screen (so the operator can check new audiograms against historical audiograms)

SIMPLE TO CUSTOMIZE: The notification letter, automatically available in one of 12 standard languages, can be easily customized.

EASY TO USE: Wherever possible, functions are represented by simple visual icons (click here for screen view). Now your audiologist or nurse can easily complete every major test function by simply pointing and clicking. Menus give each operator the opportunity to complete more complex tasks simply by scrolling down to the selected function, choosing it, and then following the prompts for easy task completion.

SIMPLE TO ENTER DATA: Built-in lookup lists and field defaults reduce typing while data validation helps ensure accurate data entry.

EASY DATA MANIPULATION: Built-in storage keeps all subject demographics and audiograms for convenient data recall and reporting.

INNOVATIVE INTELLITESTING™
GUARANTEES BUILT-IN SAFEGUARDS

The innovative IntelliTesting™ feature understands Hearing Conservation testing. It scans audiograms for test problems, and responds with appropriate solutions. This built-in software also:

• Scans during testing and automatically flags problem responses, or conducts a retest
• Delivers language-specific test and error instructions through the headsets (12 standard languages to choose from)
• Alerts audiologist or nurse if there is an attempt to manipulate test results

MARK FOR RETEST: If your audiologist or nurse thinks a threshold is wrong, s/he can simply click on one or more thresholds and the “Mark for Retest” feature will automatically retest them. This reduces manual audiometric testing, which can be difficult and time-consuming.

AUTOMATIC TEST AND ERROR INSTRUCTIONS: Not every subject understands how to take a hearing test, and instructions can be difficult to communicate if your clinic audiologist or nurse isn’t fluent in the patient’s language. Needless frustration can result, sometimes on both sides.

The CCA-100mini Plus Computer Controlled Audiometer automatically addresses this issue with appropriate test and error instructions delivered to the patient through the headset in one of 12 languages (more can be easily added). Automatic language-specific instructions help clarify the test procedure.

ACCURATE, SIMPLE HEARING CONSERVATION
DATA MANAGEMENT

The following features make it easy to input data, validate its accuracy, move it around, and store it:

• Backup and Restore feature conveniently saves all data to floppy disk
• User-defined fields allows for complete storage of any data
• Lookup Lists and Field Defaults reduce typing
• Data Validation helps ensure accurate data entry
• Easy import/export

THE CCA-100mini PLUS DOES IT ALL!

We've designed the CCA-100mini Plus to deliver two needs that often are perceived to be mutually exclusive—increased productivity and greater cost-efficiency. We deliver both—at the touch of a button!

INDUSTRY INNOVATOR WITH
“SEAMLESS SOUND SOLUTIONS”
FOR ALL YOUR
HEARING CONSERVATION NEEDS

Once considered the “new kid on the block,” Benson Medical Instruments has now become the established leader with the only seamlessly integrated Hearing Conservation testing system available today. Maybe this is the reason why the U.S. Military continues to choose Benson Medical Instruments as its sole developer and maintainer of occupational audiometry equipment purchased since 1997. Or maybe it’s because Benson Medical Instruments continues to be at the forefront of important audiometry design breakthroughs.

BENSON MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS WAS THE FIRST TO:

• Deliver an industrial audiometer that seamlessly integrates the ability to test, store all data, and output all reports from one easy-to-use piece of equipment.
• Create an IntelliTesting™ feature that automatically scans audiograms for test problems, and responds with appropriate solutions.
• Incorporate seven standard languages, and now we’re up to 12 (in a stand-alone instrument). The CCA-220 Plus audiometer can even accommodate 20 additional factory-installed languages, and has the ability to hold 32 more, easily installed by your audiologist or nurse!
• Develop a system for ambient noise level compliance that meets ANSI standards for sound level meters. Now you can continuously monitor ambient noise and produce automatic, ongoing compliance for effective “quiet room” testing.
• Support new OSHA recordable regulations and NHCA/CAOHC baseline revision guidelines.

Most importantly, Benson Medical Instruments was the first to produce a Hearing Conservation testing system that is so comprehensive and integrated it is “seamless” in its application. We’ve brought the art and science of Hearing Conservation testing into the 21st century—where they belong.