Practice Management News

Female physicians spent a median of 33.4 additional minutes daily — or more than three additional 40-hour work weeks annually — working on electronic health records than their male counterparts, researchers reported.

Every optometrist addresses ocular surface disease in some capacity and, driven by a growing body of compelling science, many have expanded the range of diagnostic and treatment options they offer as new technologies have emerged.

Health care systems have previously acknowledged the importance of — but rarely implemented — strategies for integrating palliative care into ED care, researchers wrote in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management.

A new digital platform, Opti-Xpres, allows for contact-free interaction between patients and doctors to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.

A panel of experts at the Primary Care Collaborative Annual Conference discussed ways to maximize the use of telehealth.

When controlling for practice ownership, residency completion and full-time work, analysis showed an unexplained gender wage gap remained among optometrists, according to a study published in Optometry & Vision Science.

The necessity for quarantine during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has led many specialties, including eye care, to adapt to new technologies for telehealth and develop procedures to best meet patients’ needs.

A new grant program, sponsored by the ABIM, ACP and other groups, intends to help the health care community “promote trust and create a more equitable health system.”

The TeleEyes platform facilitates telehealth visits between patients and the closest affiliated eye care provider for potential referral to in-person treatment when necessary, according to a press release.

Financial payments from pharmaceutical companies were “consistently associated with increased prescribing” across a wide range of physician specialties, drug classes and prescribing decisions, according to the authors of a recent review.