Tips to Streamline Your Optometry Practice The most successful ophthalmic practices are a result of continual improvements. Whether your practice is just opening its doors or reaching its twentieth year, there are several ways to streamline your optometry practice to improve efficiency, patient satisfaction and revenue. Online Appointment SchedulingIf a patient visits your website, he or she is already considering your service. By allowing instant appointment scheduling, the patient is much...

You’re an ophthalmic professional with a vision: to help your patients. Utilizing the latest equipment is a crucial component of running a successful ophthalmic office. Whether you’re looking to update your equipment or you’re opening a new office, there are many of new pieces of technology on the market that can make your life and business run more smoothly. Where Do I Start? Equipping your office can be daunting, as there are so many detailed parts and vast differences between brands....

As the saying goes, time is money. In any industry the proper allocation and use of time will be one of the defining factors in profit and, ultimately, business success. This is especially true for businesses that, in a sense, trade time for money; like ophthalmic practices. However, it’s not quite as simple as saying the more patients you see, the greater your income.

As all medical practitioners now know, the deadline has long passed to make the conversion to certified electronic medical records. Medical practitioners are now legally required to utilize electronic medical records in an effort to maintain transparency and organization among the medical practice, patients and insurance providers (source). This recent switch can result in more tedious record keeping and repetitive transcriptions for ophthalmic professionals who still use manual refractors or...