by Smitha Gopal | Apr 14, 2017 | Practice Pearls, Relating to Your Patients
Is your patient education making you look bad? New study reveals impact on patient perception Substantial research has been done to evaluate what types and methods of patient education are most easily understood by health care consumers. While comprehension is...
by Katie Moyer | Apr 7, 2017 | Relating to Your Patients
More women than men have eye disease, including age-related macular degeneration, cataracts, and glaucoma. These numbers will only continue to increase, according to a study by the organization Prevent Blindness. As eye doctors know, prevention and early detection are...
by Smitha Gopal | Mar 31, 2017 | Practice Pearls
What makes a conversation memorable? That was the question posed to third-year optometry students in the first annual Memorable Conversations Scholarship. Research has shown that patients immediately forget up to 80% of information learned during a medical...
by Rob Stretch | Mar 22, 2017 | Relating to Your Patients, Technology & the Internet
The interest in mobile health (mHealth) shows no signs of waning. That goes for both patients and doctors. A 2016 survey found that patients want more digital health tools from their doctors: 59 percent of all health-insured patients surveyed, and 70 percent of...
by Smitha Gopal | Jan 11, 2017 | Emerging Technology & Trends
Have you ever thought about how people with visual impairments navigate the world? If you’re an eye care professional, you probably have. You know the challenges people with low vision or color blindness have reading recipes or distinguishing green lights from red.But...
