Practice Management News

WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — At Hawaiian Eye 2019, Marguerite McDonald, MD, explains important steps to create a dry eye center of excellence.

WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — New additions to the IRIS Registry aim to improve quality of care, according to a speaker here.

One-fourth of ophthalmic professionals consider health/medical insurance to be the most important workplace benefit, according to iHireOptometry.

Requiring pharmaceutical companies to disclose prices in direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising could potentially reduce interest in high-priced drugs, according to findings presented in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Experts from leading U.S. health organizations deemed physician burnout “a public health crisis” in a recent report.

WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — In the current digital environment with state-of-the-art technology available to cataract surgeons, “it is nice to take advantage of discreet data from software and make surgical planning easier and help patients achieve the outcomes they want to have,” according to the co-founder of a “smart software” system for surgical planning.

WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — A Medical Group Management Association study reported that 83% of medical practices have experienced embezzlement. Discovering embezzlement, knowing what to do about it and putting in place preventative measures were the topics of a panel here at Hawaiian Eye 2019.

by Richard B. Packard, MD, FRCS, FRCOphth

WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — At Hawaiian Eye 2019, Paul J. Fishman, JD, discusses the five main questions that prosecutors use to determine whether to proceed with a criminal investigation or to continue an investigation.

WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — Allison W. Shuren, MSN, JD, discussed a panel she moderated here at Hawaiian Eye 2019 that covered nightmare scenarios for an ophthalmic practice, ranging from embezzlement to how to handle a referring surgeon who is not providing an acceptable standard of care for patients.