New This Week
Building a Visual Performance Center
Katie Spear, OD, MPH, has built a specialty in visual performance, which incorporates low vision, sports vision and vision rehabilitation. The practice has hired a full-time occupational therapist to staff a “Visual Performance Center” that has paid off in the growth of specialized services and of general eyecare services, as well.>>READ MORE >>
Frames
Eight Ways to Enhance the Patient Experience in Your Dispensary
By Ken Krivacic, OD, MBA
Create a distinctive optical dispensary that sends a consistent message: You offer a high-quality patient experience–and this is the place to purchase eyewear.
Diagnostic Instrumentation
Wavefront Analyzer: Do In-Depth Diagnostics in Less Time
By Brett M. Paepke, OD
A wavefront analyzer/automated refraction system can expedite the diagnosis process and provide more in-depth data. Upgrading to such systems also equips you to provide higher level “personalized lenses.”
Contact Lenses
One-Day & Monthly CLs: Enhanced Patient Compliance, Greater Long-Term Wear
By Victoria L. Dzurinko, OD, FAAO
Patients find compliance is easy when you prescribe one-day and one-month replacement contact lenses. Compliant patients are more comfortable in their lenses—and more profitable to your practice over time.
ROB Fast Fact
Optician Pay: With Supervisory Vs. Without
Your employees with supervisory responsibilities probably have higher salaries than those without those responsibilities, according to findings from Jobson Optical Research’s and Local Eye Site’s 2013 ECP Compensation Study. Optician/dispensers reporting no supervisory status had an average compensation of $40,768 while those reporting supervisory status came in at $48,688. Those supervising four or more people had an average compensation of $53,978 and those having supervisory status at more than one location averaged $55,417.
Click HERE to read more from Review of Optometric Business professional editors Carole Burns, OD, FCOVD, and Mark Wright, OD, FCOVD, on fairly compensating staff while maintaining practice profitability.
In Brief
Alcon Introduces Contact Lens Compliance Kit for Patients
Alcon announced it is taking an important step toward improving patient education on contact lens care. A new compliance kit will help eyecare professionals educate their patients on how to take care of their contact lenses while also providing consumers with a clear doctor recommendation.
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Johnson & Johnson Vision Care Appoints Director of Education
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc., announced the appointment of Charissa Lee, OD, to the role of Director, Education, Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc., North America (JJVCI). In this role, Dr. Lee will lead the development of programs supporting the schools and colleges of optometry across the US. She will report directly to Millicent Knight, OD, Head of Professional Affairs, JJVCI.
Challenge –> Solution
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Practice Challenge…
How do I find the ideal new office space?Finding a new office space means balancing patient needs and your long-term growth plan with your current financial challenges. Here is how some of our contributors created, found (or transformed an existing space into) exactly what they were looking for.
…Practice Solution
- From the Ground Up: Build Your Ideal Office Space
- Moving Office Space: Careful Planning Pays Off
- Notes on a Successful Renovation: Creating a Patient-Pleaser
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
