Practice Management

Building a Top-Flight Staff

A successful optometry practice requires a dedicated, passionate team and effective leadership. Here’s how to land ideal candidates and foster a positive office environment to keep them there long-term.
04/15/2024

Prescribe Oral Meds Like a Pro

In the final article of our scope expansion series, we cover how to confidently treat and manage patients with the most potent pharmaceuticals available.
08/15/2022

Adding Lasers to Your Practice

Learn how you and your staff can prepare to incorporate this service when your state adds it to the clinical scope.
06/15/2022

Bringing Incisions and Injections to Your Clinic

This article—the first of a four-part series on optometric scope expansion—discusses how to incorporate these services into your practice flow.
05/15/2022

How to Hire, Train and Retain Staff in a Fierce Labor Market

Flexibility, pay increases and employee happiness can optimally position a practice for low turnover and attract the best and the brightest in the field.
10/15/2021

Protect Yourself from Malpractice

These insights will help you better understand how to avoid—and best prepare against—it.
10/15/2021

Optometry at Work: The How, When and Where of Who Delivers Care

Wide-ranging study finds a more balanced distribution between the genders, yet the profession falls short with minorities.
07/15/2021

Where Does Vision Care Fit in 2021?

A thriving optical practice needs three Ps: patients, purchases and profits. Each faces setbacks and obstacles. Here’s a look at recent threats and possible ways forward.
01/15/2021

How COVID-19 is Reshaping Optometry

With all the changes wrought by the pandemic, optometrists must be nimble and willing to adapt—or else find themselves outmaneuvered.
10/15/2020

A Simpler Way to Code Office Encounters

A major update coming in January will finally make things much easier.
10/15/2020

Upcoming Events

August 14, 2024

The 3 I's of Geographic Atrophy: Imaging, Identification, and Intervention
Location: Virtual
Presenters:  Mark Dunbar, OD, FAAO, and David Chin Yee, MD
Webinar: 8:30pm ET


Sponsored by Apellis

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September 8, 2024

Ocular Surface Symposium
Location: Renaissance Chicago Downtown Hotel
Presenter:  Paul Karpecki, OD

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September 9, 2024

The 3 I's of Geographic Atrophy: Imaging, Identification, and Intervention
Location: Virtual
Presenters:  Damon Dierker, OD, FAAO, and Lucas Lindsell, OD, MD
Webinar: 8:30pm ET


Sponsored by Apellis

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