New This Week
Be the Blue Light Expert for Your Patients
With Tommy Lim, OD, and Andrew Karp
Tommy Lim, OD, believes that ODs should establish themselves as experts on blue light for their patients. In a discussion with Andrew Karp of VM and 20/20, Dr. Lim provides practical tips on how to inform and advise patients—and what optical solutions to prescribe to protect their eyes and enhance their visual experience. >>READ MORE>>
Practice Management
HIPAA Compliance: Six Steps to Protect Your Patients’ Privacy
By Robert Grant, The Compliancy Group
Take six steps to protect your patients’ private information–and protect your practice from HIPAA violations. >>READ MORE>>
Practice Differentiation
Leverage Advanced Technology to Enhance Vision Performance & Practice Profits
By Thomas F. Steiner
ROB Director of Market Research
Utilize technology advances in specialty optical products to improve patient outcomes and provide your practice with new revenue streams.
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Software Solutions/EHR
EHR: Your Transition Tool to ICD-10
By Robert L. Bass, OD
and Robert Day, Jr., OD
Ease your transition to ICD-10—and reduce claim rejections and lost revenue—by utilizing new technology in your EHR. >>READ MORE>>
ROB Fast Fact
Can ODs Re-Engage Patients with Chronic Medical Conditions?
Optometrists have a key role to play as part of the team caring for patients with chronic conditions, according to “Eye Exam Impacts on Re-Engagement for Chronic Conditions,” a UnitedHealthcare study that followed 2,300 UnitedHealthcare plan participants enrolled in employee-sponsored health plans to determine whether patients lacking care for chronic conditions followed up for treatment with a primary care physician or specialist after an eye exam. The study showed that 57 percent of patients with chronic conditions who receive a comprehensive eye exam became re-engaged with a primary care physician or specialist in managing their ongoing illness.
Click HERE to read more from Review of Optometric Business professional editors Carole Burns, OD, FCOVD, and Mark Wright, OD, FCOVD, on talking to your patients about the medical eyecare you provide.
In Brief
New Report: More than a Quarter of US Adults Rarely or Never Wear Sunglasses
More than one-in-four American adults are risking serious eye damage through exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation, according to a new report from “Protection for the Naked Eye: Sunglasses as a Health Necessity.” >>READ MORE>>
Prevent Blindness to Hold 10th Annual Eyes on Capitol Hill
Prevent Blindness will hold its 10th annual “Eyes on Capitol Hill” program on June 16, 2015, in Washington, DC. The program, which is intended to provide citizens from all over the US with the opportunity to meet with congressional and senate members, will give people a platform to discuss vision care issues. <<READ MORE>>
Challenge –> Solution
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Practice Challenge…
How do I launch a vision therapy niche?Vision therapy is an optometric growth area, with the potential to bring in new families of patients with children in need of these services. Here is how three ROB contributors launched vision therapy in their practice.
…Practice Solution
- Profit with a Specialty: Vision Therapy
- Practice Differentiator: Vision Therapy Specialty
- Incorporating Vision Therapy Into Your Practice
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
An Optometric Minute video with Eric M. White, OD -
Capture Rate Booster: Train Staff to Fill Patient Prescriptions
By Stuart J. Thomas, OD, and Ellen Byrum-Goad, LDO
