Practice Management

Like polishing glass, there are different ways to make your practice shine

Differentiating across categories instrumental to establishing accurate value

Medication compliance and regular exams are important to maintaining healthy vision. Turn your patients into a loyal ‘fan base’ with these consumer-friendly tips.

If you find yourself waffling back and forth on private equity, Ruth D. Williams, MD, has some guidance tips to make the decision easier. 

Analytics may help EyeMDs to provide appropriate access, quality, cost of care

Implementing new innovations is a critical part of successful facility management

Supportive leadership creates a culture that benefits your whole team.

Take control of your practice's finances using these three easy tips

You don’t need to change your brand. Change how you interpret feedback.

Time is everything. How are you spending yours? 

Are you wondering if other practices are charging for adding pupillary distance (PD) to prescriptions and adjusting glasses purchased online for free? If so, how does this fit into your mission statement and strategic goals?

Here's how your practice can utilize Facebook to reach out and spread the word about how you can help people with glaucoma.

Julie Gough-Nelson shares the three important things worth remembering in an era of online reviews for best-practice management.

Adopting new technologies across multiple practices using a single ambulatory surgery center can be challenging. A systematic approach leverages technology champions, employs consistent communications, and provides administrative support to secure reimbursement.

When Martin Luther King said, “I have a dream,” he had a vision for people, not a program. Visionary leaders have the ability to communicate values and ideas in a way that connects. In your practice, they bring certainty into the uncertain world of reimbursement rates and rapid change. What is your capacity to bring vision and direction into times of uncertainty?

We really are at a crossroads in eye healthcare. Wouldn’t a virtual exam be ‘just as good’ as a trip to the eye doctor? To today’s busy consumer, how can we justify leisurely sitting in front of a computer or in a kiosk versus an in-office visit that takes sixty plus minutes and includes that awkward part – dilation?

Ceeable, a web-based, mobile digital technology designed to detect early-stage eye diseases-an innovation that can help shape 21st century medicine-was awarded third place in the American Medical Association’s inaugural Healthier Nation Innovation Challenge.

Change is an inside job. Are you unhappy with your practice’s growth? Take the often overlooked option of offensive time management. Actively shape your day by establishing what I like to call selective control.

"How can I have a successful private practice and still ensure life balance?" In 2016, this is the question I hear most frequently. It should come as no surprise to you that busy eyecare practitioners need help with time management issues.

Terry Kim, MD, and Anthony Aldave, MD, refuse to let their busy worklives get in the way of pursuing their hobbies. For 7 years, they’ve found a way to merge their professional and personal lives by DJing at ophthalmology meetings.

Don’t you love practice management software? Review the following categories and pick the one or two where your reports reveal you are most deficient and set improvement goals.