By Staff
Wednesday, May 6, 2020 12:27 AM
NEW YORK—ECP practices reflected an uptick in overall performance in the week ending May 3, according to the latest COVID-19 Practice Performance Tracker. All optical product/service categories being tracked throughout the U.S. have been inching upward over the past month (except contact lenses) with the largest increase occurring last week, when comparing metrics from April 27-May 3 with the previous week of April 20-April 26.
Click to view the COVID-19 Practice Performance Tracker for May 5, 2020.
By Staff
Friday, May 1, 2020 2:00 PM
NEW YORK—Slightly more than four in 10 (41.2 percent) eyecare professionals who responded to a Jobson Optical Research survey said they expect to be "up and running" their practices immediately once given the required regulatory approvals and go-ahead. And three in 10 (29.9 percent) said they believe they could reopen “within one week” of receiving the official go-ahead, according to the results of the Jobson survey released today. These were among the
findings of Wave 7 of Jobson Optical Research’s ECP Coronavirus Study. Wave 7 of the survey asked, for the first time, how many more weeks the practice could survive without being permitted to reopen. More than 40 percent of respondents estimated the practice could survive no more than four weeks under these circumstances.
By Staff
Wednesday, April 22, 2020 12:18 AM
NEW YORK—The latest data aggregated across the U.S. from eyecare practices for the week of April 13-April 19 indicate that the optical business may have bottomed out following the steep decline precipitated by stay-at-home orders in most states in reaction to COVID-19. No longer in decline for the previous week, gross revenue on a national level took an upturn for the first time since this crisis began albeit only at a rate of 1 index point. This occurred as most optical practices throughout the U.S. remain shut. Hovering around 90 percent are those ECPs still impacted by stay-at-home orders, according to the latest Coronavirus ECP Survey by Jobson Optical Research, as
VMAIL reported this week.
Click to view the COVID-19 Practice Performance Tracker for April 21, 2020.
By John Sailer
Friday, February 20, 2015 11:30 AM
To help make sense of the varied and sometimes confusing scope of practice laws throughout the country,
NewGradOptometry.com's Quy Nguyen, OD, and founder Matt Geller, OD, have developed an infographic clearly stating what each state allows.
By John Sailer
Thursday, January 8, 2015 10:30 AM
DALLAS—In its continuing effort to raise awareness about the need for healthy vision worldwide, the Vision Impact Institute has gathered concise facts on vision economics and listed them
here as the Ten Things You Need to Know.
By John Sailer
Friday, December 13, 2013 11:30 AM
The Kaiser Family Foundation’s
marketplace enrollment tracker
is tracking statistics related to the individuals who are signing up
for health insurance via marketplaces for all 50 states and the District
of Columbia.
By John Sailer
Monday, May 20, 2013 12:05 AM
NEW YORK—As the economy continued its gradual recovery last year,
the U.S. optical retailing sector also exhibited slow but steady growth
in 2012, fueled in part by the performance of the country’s 50 largest
eyewear/eyecare retailers.
By dba Staff
Monday, April 15, 2013 9:30 AM
HICKORY, N.C.—"I knew we needed to do more online advertising after carefully tracking our marketing and becoming frustrated that we were spending a lot on the yellow pages and not getting much return on investment," said Jean Shankles, marketing director of
Graystone Eye, a five-location group offering ophthalmology along with optical dispensing.
By Staff
Monday, March 28, 2011 11:21 AM
How online-ready is your practice? Plugging into the transformational effects of the internet.
Learn how to build an online presence to reach the new consumer, and meet them where they are: Online.