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Healio/Primary Care Optometry News bloggers address primary care and health reform, surgery and comanagement, clinical and diagnostic conundrums, and the implementation of social media in the optometric practice. Check out their most recent commentaries:
“In spite of the debate, drama and widespread awareness of the health care agenda in America, there has been no progress in resolving the most fundamental problem,” according to PCON Editorial Board member and blogger, Scott A. Edmonds, OD, FAAO. “This problem is the lack of resources for primary care services.”
You don’t want to miss Edmonds’ timely blog on this issue, which affects all Americans.
How the lamina cribrosa changes with glaucoma – part 2
Additionally, Doug Rett, OD, FAAO, details lamina cribrosa imaging in his “part 2” blog on how optometrists can adapt it into practice.
“Lamina cribrosa distance could be a welcome addition to the familiar retinal nerve fiber layer circle circle scan for the management of our glaucoma patients,” he said.
Make your website mobile friendly
In his latest video blog, PCON Editorial Board member Agustin L. Gonzalez, OD, FAAO, said more people are looking at your practice’s website using mobile devices and tablets than personal computers or laptops.
Ensure that your phone number and email address are easily accessible, and consider implementing a “Book now” button that is integrated with your electronic medical records, he advised.
PCON Editorial Board member John A. Hovanesian, MD, FACS, said optometrists can expect to see surgeons adopting small incision lenticule extraction, or SMILE, in the near future. In this procedure, a femtosecond laser is used to create an intrastromal lenticule that is surgically extracted through a small femtosecond incision, correcting even high degrees of myopia with impressive precision.
The procedure brings with it excitement and good clinical results and will help drive the industry, Hovanesian said.