What’s Next? Third Summit Session Features Pandemic Leadership Lessons from Healthcare’s Front Lines

NEW YORK—Top executives from regional and national healthcare systems joined the third Virtual VM Summit broadcast on October 14 to share how administrators, clinicians and support staff have responded to the global coronavirus pandemic, which has stressed hospital and provider systems in unprecedented ways. Citing resilience, adaptation and teamwork as key ingredients to meet the challenge, speakers discussed how they see insurance coverage and patient access to care evolving with these shifts.

Vote Now for Vision Monday's and 20/20 Magazine's 12th Annual 2020 EyeVote Reader’s Choice Awards

NEW YORK—Vision Monday and 20/20 Magazine are hosting the 12th annual EyeVote Reader’s Choice Awards to identify the optical industry’s favorite products and companies this year. These two Jobson Medical Information publications are teaming up once again this fall to get readers’ opinions by asking optical retailers’ and ECPs to identify their favorite products in 19 distinct categories.

Bausch Health and BHVI Announce Exclusive Global Licensing Agreement for Myopia Control Contact Lens

SYDNEY and LAVAL, Quebec—Bausch Health Companies Inc. (NYSE/TSX: BHC) and Bausch + Lomb, its leading global eye health business, along with BHVI, an Australian not-for-profit organization with an international focus on vision research, announced Thursday that an affiliate of Bausch Health has acquired an exclusive license for a myopia control contact lens design developed by BHVI.

2020 Theia Awards of Excellence Honor Six Women ODs

NEW YORK—Six women were named recipients of the 2020 Theia Awards of Excellence last night, Thursday Oct. 15. The award ceremony was held virtually as the conclusion to the three-day Women’s Leadership Conference hosted by Women In Optometry with the American Academy of Optometry Academy at Homeprogram. The awards were presented with a special collaboration of past winners returning to honor the new recipients as they accepted their awards in this fifth annual award ceremony.

VSP Vision Care In-Practice HbA1c Screening Pilot Program in Ohio Emphasizes Role of Optometry in Early Detection of Diabetes

RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif.—VSP Vision Care has announced the results of an in-practice HbA1c screening pilot program that underscored the important role doctors of optometry play in the early detection of diabetes and prediabetes. Given the pilot program’s impressive initial results, the nation’s leading health-focused and only not-for-profit vision benefits company will expand the program to two large Ohio-based clients in January 2021, the company said.