By Click Staff
Friday, February 26, 2021 8:10 AM
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla.—
ABB Verify is launching an enhancement to its vision care benefits optimization platform from
ABB Optical Group. ABB Verify’s new feature allows ECPs who utilize ABB Verify to retrieve medical plan information in addition to the current vision insurance search offering. This will provide ECPs with a centralized location to review both vision and medical eligibility and benefits information.
By Staff
Friday, February 26, 2021 12:24 AM
Total Vision forms new partnership, Bausch Health adds directors to board, Alcon reports Q4 sales gain, Jobson Research issues COVID-19 special report and Solstice Sunglasses files for bankruptcy protection all topped this week’s
VMAIL news feed. Click on the headlines below to catch up on anything you might have missed.
By Staff
Friday, February 26, 2021 12:21 AM
BINGHAM FARMS, Mich.—
Sunvera Group, a management services organization providing services to ophthalmology practices across multiple subspecialties, announced the addition of
Kellis Eye & Laser Center to its platform.
By Staff
Friday, February 26, 2021 12:18 AM
NEW YORK—Jobson Medical Information announced that Kristen Dalli will be joining
Review of Myopia Management (RMM) as the managing editor. In her new role, Dalli will be working directly with John Sailer, editor-in-chief.
By Staff
Friday, February 26, 2021 12:15 AM
VANCOUVER, British Columbia—
CloudMD Software & Services Inc. (OTCQB: DOCRF), a telehealth software company, announced last week that it has agreed to acquire
VisionPros, a vertically integrated digital eyewear platform and e-tailer, based here.
By Staff
Thursday, February 25, 2021 10:29 AM
When the first COVID vaccines arrived, people started talking about the “light at the end of the tunnel.” Then the post-holidays surge hit with record numbers of cases and deaths, virus variants emerged, and that light was feeling pretty dim. But now as cases and hospitalizations have dramatically dropped, are we finally getting close to the end of the tunnel?
By Staff
Thursday, February 25, 2021 12:24 AM
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—
The Health Care Alliance for Patient Safety (APS), an organization founded in 2018 to advocate for both patient safety and a strong doctor-patient relationship, has named Alison Teitelbaum, MS, MPH, CAE, as its new executive director.
By Staff
Thursday, February 25, 2021 12:21 AM
NEW YORK—
My Vision Show, the ever-growing virtual showcase, is back with a brand new event and an updated platform. Share Your Vision will be held on March 25-28, 2021 although the platform is open for registration on an invited, membership basis, to enable attendees to customize their own experience and interaction.
By Staff
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 4:56 PM
The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked the need for many changes in the office, and ODs have had to make adjustments to keep the office and exam experience safe and comfortable for patients. Respondents shared that they made new technology purchases for the optical (52 percent), the exam room and pretesting area (52 percent) and for billing or the front office area (32 percent), according to a recent
Women In Optometry Pop-Up Poll.
Technology for sterilizing frames topped the new purchase list, with 75 percent of respondents saying that they added a new way of cleaning frames between patients. Other common responses included:
• Diagnostic instruments that allow for social distancing:
50 percent• Kiosks for taking patients’ temperature:
40 percent• Telemedicine applications:
35 percent• EMR to enable work-at-home options:
20 percentClick
here to read the full story from
Women In Optometry.
By Staff
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 12:27 AM
NEW YORK—All optical sales categories suffered substantial declines nationally over the course of last week (Feb. 15-21) due to historically severe winter weather, according to Jobson’s Practice Performance Tracker. Declines in optical sales ranged from -14 index points for contact lenses to -16 index points for gross revenue and lens pairs. These numbers are likely to rebound when the impact from severe winter weather has passed. Also this past week, the U.S. approached an unfortunate milestone, half a million dead due to COVID-19, according to the
COVID Tracking Project.
By Staff
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 12:21 AM
NEW YORK—The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) will officially launch its
Vision Atlas at a meeting today of the
United Nations Friends of Vision Group organized by the UN Ambassadors from Antigua & Barbuda, Bangladesh and Ireland and addressed by H.E. Volkan Bozkir, president of the UN General Assembly.
By Staff
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 12:18 AM
SAN DIEGO—
Eyes On Eyecare, a digital site and publication offering clinical and career content, events, and career services for eyecare professionals, has released its
2021 Optometry Student Report. The report is based on data collected from 1,476 optometry students in the U.S. and Canada.
By Staff
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 12:15 AM
CHICAGO—Coming together with a common goal and a shared desire to re-establish a more personal exchange between brand and customers possibly within a safe and relaxed environment, leading independent eyewear brands are joining forces again to hold
Midwest Best, a cooperative kick-off to the spring/summer order season which will be held here March 25-27. Organized in collaboration with Marriott Suites-O'Hare in Rosemont, Ill., each brand will have its own suite, enabling the showing of collections in a safe environment, organizers said. The group, held a similar show last October, as
VMAIL reported and this is its third event in Chicago.