New This Week
Health Care Reform: How To Embrace Change & Find Opportunities
Amir Khoshnevis, OD, of Vision Source Studio 20/20 in Charlotte, N.C., describes the culture of change that allows his practice to seize new opportunities provided by health care reform.
Includes Free Download: Vision Source Navigation Guide to Health Care Reform. >>READ MORE>>
Practice Management
Outsource Business Services & Jump-Start Efficiency
By Steven Faith, OD
Outsourcing select business services, with help from an optometric organization, can boost staff efficiency and practice profitability. See where outsourcing makes sense as you grow. >>READ MORE>>
Staff Management
Optician Training: Ensure Your Practice Profitability
By Mitchell H. Albers, OD
Your optical provides most of your revenues. How well you train new hires and veteran opticians is the profit-making difference.
Includes a Staff Training Checklist.
>>READ MORE>>
Doctor-Patient Relations
Prescribe from the Exam Room–With Help from Patient Financing
By Dave Anderson, OD
Your professional voice carries weight when you prescribe optical solutions from the exam room. When you mention the availability of patient financing, more patients fulfill your treatment plan.
Includes Nine Steps to Success. >>READ MORE>>
ROB Fast Fact
How Many ODs Have Implemented Electronic Health Records?
More than half of ODs have implemented electronic health records in their practice, findings from the American Optometric Association’s 2014 New Technology & EHR Survey reveal. Sixty-two percent of responding optometrists have adopted a complete EHR in their primary practice. AOA member optometrists are significantly more likely to use a complete EHR in their practice (66 percent) as compared to non-members (54 percent).
Click HERE to read more from Review of Optometric Business professional editors Carole Burns, OD, FCOVD, and Mark Wright, OD, FCOVD, on meeting HIPAA requirements in your practice.
In Brief
Nutrition Education Seminar Preceding American Academy of Optometry
The Ocular Nutrition Society (ONS) will sponsor a Nutrition Education Symposium preceding the American Academy of Optometry 2015 Meeting on Tuesday, October 6, 2015, from 1 pm – 5 pm at the New Orleans Convention Center. >>READ MORE>>
Optometry Cares–The AOA Foundation Accepting 2016 Scholarship Applications
Optometry Cares—The AOA Foundation, the charitable foundation of the American Optometric Association (AOA), is accepting applications for four scholarship opportunities offered to optometry student members of the AOA and the American Optometric Student Association. <<READ MORE>>
Challenge –> Solution
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Practice Challenge…
How do I ready my practice for the transition to ICD-10 coding?ICD-10 coding will be implemented on Oct. 1, 2015. Is your practice ready? Here is how four contributors are preparing for this new coding system.
…Practice Solution
- ICD-10: Embrace a Tool that Elevates Patient Care
- ICD-10: Educational Resources to Get Staff on Board
- ICD-10: Get Ready to Update Coding
Recent Articles of Note
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Getting There: Planning a Successful Optometric Career
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Be Positive, and Always Thank Your Patient
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Capture Rate Booster: Train Staff to Fill Patient Prescriptions
By Stuart J. Thomas, OD, and Ellen Byrum-Goad, LDO
