Practice Management News

In the third part of a five-part video series, Darrell E. White, MD, a private practice owner and anterior segment ophthalmologist in Westlake, Ohio, who also authors The Dry Eye column for Ocular Surgery News as well as the Eye Care Out Loud podcast on Healio/OSN, discusses his short- and long-term concerns about his practice stemming from the coronavirus pandemic.

Darrell E. White, MD, a private practice owner and anterior segment ophthalmologist in Westlake, Ohio, who also authors The Dry Eye column for Ocular Surgery News as well as the Eye Care Out Loud podcast for Healio/OSN, discusses in the second part of a five-part video series how he is adapting to teleophthalmology instead of surgery due to the coronavirus pandemic. Since this video was recorded, Modernizing Medicine announced that it will provide free telemedicine capabilities to all of its customers.

Primary Care Optometry News reached out to doctors of optometry around the country to inquire about how they are dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic in their practices.

Modernizing Medicine has launched modmed Telehealth solutions, an audio and video telemedicine product, and the company plans to offer it to providers at no additional charge during the COVID-19 outbreak, according to a press release.

Darrell E. White, MD, a private practice owner and anterior segment ophthalmologist in Westlake, Ohio, who also authors The Dry Eye column for Ocular Surgery News as well as a blog for Healio/OSN, discusses how he and his practice have had to react to the coronavirus pandemic in the first part of a five-part video series.

The CMS extended the 2019 Merit-based Incentive Payment System data submission deadline to April 30, 2020, to help facilitate the health care system’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

ORLANDO — At Cataract Surgery: Telling It Like It Is, Ike K. Ahmed, MD, discusses how to safely learn new techniques.

Millions of Americans have been ordered by state health officials to stay home until further notice except for essential needs, such as food and health care.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, MSc, declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, citing “alarming levels of spread and severity” and “the alarming level of inaction.”

ORLANDO — At Cataract Surgery: Telling It Like It Is, Jason J. Jones, MD, discusses how he integrates new techniques into his busy practice.