Comanagement News

Expanding scope of practice, new technologies and treatments, and various opportunities for involvement appeal to an ambitious population of young optometrists – both male and female – entering diverse sectors across the field.

A new survey from Alcon sheds light on the daily challenges of having cataracts and the emotional benefits of improved vision after surgery.

CheckedUp, a specialty point of care company, is expanding its partnership with Alcon to educate patients about cataract surgical treatment options.

Phacoemulsification as a solo procedure lowers intraocular pressure and reduces patient dependency on glaucoma medications, according to researchers in the Journal of Glaucoma.

Our profession may be particularly receptive to innovation because those who enter eye care are self-selected for being open to new ways of thinking. We embarked on our postgraduate education concentrating on an extremely limited area with new anatomy, new terminology and new diagnostics. We are also a tech-oriented bunch by nature.

IBM Research announced a technological advance that uses “deep learning” to achieve the highest-ever recorded accuracy using pathology-driven analysis for identifying diabetic retinopathy severity, based on an international, clinical diabetic retinopathy scale that determines severity in about 20 seconds.

Thermal pulsation treatment for meibomian gland dysfunction patients who were positive for novel biomarkers of Sjögren’s syndrome showed improvement in the signs and symptoms of dry eye, according to researchers in Clinical Ophthalmology.

Patients with moderate or severe retinal damage should be examined more often than the current recommendation, based on research from about 24,000 eye exams with retinal photography and 30 years of data from about 1,400 people with type 1 diabetes, according to a press release from the National Institutes of Health.

The American Optometric Association and the Armed Forces Optometric Society expressed “shock” and “outrage” at a suggestion that the VA Optometry Service be eliminated as a cost-savings move.

Computer simulation of everyday visual tasks showed that people with dry age-related macular degeneration are likely to experience difficulties in localizing objects even at the less severe stages of measurable visual impairment.