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It's also good for working out whether a hearing aid is genuinely not helpful or if the person has not worked out how best to use it. For people with no previous experience of hearing aids they may say they cannot hear in this situation and that situation and it turns out they have never engaged the approrpriate program. It tells the audi where you spend most of your time but analysed in terms of a soundscape rather than a place. You can ask someone at a fitting where do you most want to hear and they tell you "At church" but is that a quiet traditional type of service? A gospel service? Is it a small intimate church or is it a giant megachurch with soundfield systems and loops? The hearing aid datalogging can tell them what kind of soundscape you mean by church. It can confirm you are or are not wearing them - I'd have been caught out as a child that way, thank goodness there was no data logging when I was at school! I used to exchange my batteries to hope I gave the impression I was wearing my hearing aids at school when I wasn't. But as a parent I'd be grateful for datalogging to be able to tell me that my child was not wearing her aids, so it's very useful in that context. It helps to work out if the aid is behaving as expected, if you tell the audi that you spend almost all your time in a busy loud environment and the Soundflow program is sticking in Omni instead of directional then they know to turn up the sensitivity to speech. It's an extra tool to match up the settings to what you need.