Patent ID: 8238592

Claim:
A method for user fitting of a hearing aid, said method comprising: performing an initial fitting of the hearing aid in an interactive session between a hearing aid user and a fitter to establish settings for the hearing aid, for a predetermined period after said initial fitting, allowing the hearing aid user to adjust the settings of the hearing aid, monitoring the hearing aid user's choice of at least some of the settings and storing said monitored choices in a log, transmitting said log to the fitter for evaluation of preferred user settings, evaluating said preferred user settings, and if said evaluation reveals that the preferred user settings are acceptable, finalising the fitting of the hearing aid accordingly, or if said evaluation reveals that the preferred user settings are not acceptable, performing an action selected among: finalising the settings of the hearing aid in accordance with the initial fitting, performing a new interactive session between the user and a fitter, and monitoring for a new predetermined period, the user's choice of at least some of the settings of the hearing aid and storing the results of the monitoring in a log.