Optometry

• Practice Management

• Final EHR ‘meaningful use’ rules released

• Primary Care Optometry News, October 2010
• The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced its final rules for the expanded use of electronic health records. According to the American...More »

• Practice Management

• Characteristics of patient panels may influence quality ratings of primary care physicians

• September 10, 2010
• Lower primary care physician quality rankings were more likely to be the result of patient panels with greater proportions of underinsured, minority and...More »

• Tax Tips for the OD

• Most OD practices will be exempt from health insurance requirements

• Primary Care Optometry News, September 2010
  Mark E. Battersby
• The massive and controversial Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, the two recently...More »

• Practice Management

• Experienced ODs recommend the move to paperless medical records

• Primary Care Optometry News, August 2010
  Jena Passut
• With the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the federal government is offering incentives to health care providers who...More »

• Practice Management

• Disparities remain a challenge in health care, says American College of Physicians

• July 29, 2010
• Racial and ethnic disparities are still a challenge for patients in the U.S. health care system, according to a paper released this week by the American...More »

• Practice Management

• Final EHR 'meaningful use' rules released

• July 14, 2010
• The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Tuesday their final rules for the expanded use of electronic health records.
  The Health...More »

• Practice Management

• Prevent problems by quantifying each practice partner’s worth

• Primary Care Optometry News, May 2010
  Jerome Legerton, OD, MS, MBA, FAAO
• The area of income allocation is the most important in a practice partnership. Through my career I have found that most bad practice relationships have a...More »

• Tax Tips for the OD

• Deduct operational expenses in current year, capital expenses over several

• Primary Care Optometry News, May 2010
  Mark E. Battersby
• In today’s economy, the question is often not whether to fix or replace equipment, fixtures, business assets or even the building housing the optometry...More »

• Practice Management

• Integrity Digital Solutions unveils new EMR system

• April 15, 2010
• BOSTON — Integrity Digital Solutions unveiled its new electronic medical records software at the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery...More »

• Practice Management

• Down economy has forced a revaluation of worth of health care

• January 18, 2010
• KOLOA, Hawaii — Calls for health care reform have brought about a change in the perceived value of health care, and ophthalmologists should brace for some...More »

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