Practice Management News

LOS ANGELES — Results of a survey conducted among ophthalmic industry, administrators and surgeons revealed that industry representatives are most optimistic about the financial future of commercial ophthalmology.

Union membership among health care professionals in the United States, including physicians, is on the rise, which could have seismic implications in work patterns and patient care in an increasingly corporatized medical system.

Health savings accounts are a powerful tool for managing health care expenses, offering significant tax advantages and flexibility.

In this episode, John A. Hovanesian, MD, FACS, and Jim Mazzo discuss the latest news from Washington with guest Mark Leahey.

Animal testing requirements for monoclonal antibodies and other medications will be “reduced, refined or potentially replaced” in favor of other approaches, including artificial intelligence, according to a recent announcement from the FDA.

After more than 25 years of practicing ophthalmology, I am now exploring the critical intersection of climate change and health and a full-time champion of sustainability in health care.

I have shared my thoughts on climate change and plastic pollution twice before in Healio | OSN. For in-depth comments, I direct any interested readers to my Aug. 10, 2022, and March 25, 2024, Lindstrom’s Perspective.

I grew up in a conservative home. Not at all like what the word means today. We conserved.

A simmering mistrust of medical science and scientific institutions that had been long building in the United States boiled over during the COVID-19 pandemic.