By Staff
Monday, December 30, 2024 12:24 AM
CHARLOTTE, N.C. and NEW YORK—
Kian Capital Partners and
RF Investment Partners, two lower-middle-market-focused private investment firms, have announced the formation of US VisionMed Partners, a management services organization (MSO) supporting established, medically-focused optometry practices nationwide. US VisionMed's locations will serve patients with an emphasis on specialty and medical services and products such as exams, diagnostic testing, dry eye treatments, vision therapy and myopia management, according to the companies' announcement. Kian and RF invested in US VisionMed as well as
Lakewood Healthcare Capital, a health care-focused investment firm; this includes the practitioners leading each location.
By Staff
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 12:18 AM
ST. LOUIS—
AOAExcel, a member-benefit subsidiary of the American Optometric Association (AOA), announced its first-ever endorsement of San Francisco-based
Barti Software, an electronic health records (EHR) company focused on eyecare. In addition to the endorsement, the company announced it made an undisclosed financial investment in Barti.
By Staff
Thursday, August 22, 2024 12:18 AM
LAS VEGAS—Jobson Optical Group has announced the speaker roster and agenda for “The Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Practical Applications in Eye Care Today,” a new,
live event, which will be presented at The Venetian Hotel during Vision Expo West 2024. The program is scheduled for Wednesday, September 18, from 3:00 to 5:30 pm. Dr. Scot Morris, OD, director of development and CEO of Augmented Medical Intelligence, a medical knowledge platform transforming medicine, will chair the presentation.
By Staff
Tuesday, August 13, 2024 12:21 AM
RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif.—
Eyefinity, a
VSP Vision company and a provider of cloud-based practice management and electronic health records (EHR) software, has earned three top-of-the-line security accreditations, the company has announced.
By Staff
Friday, June 7, 2024 12:21 AM
CHICAGO—
Visibly, a health care technology company for the eyecare industry, has launched a new platform feature called Visibly Verification, designed to simplify the contact lens prescription verification process and automating the Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act compliance process.
By Staff
Monday, September 25, 2023 12:24 AM
CHARENTON-LE-PONT, France—
EssilorLuxottica has announced it is "making an important step in the digitization of the eyecare industry" with the launch of HELIX, a new division of the company focused on helping ECPs leverage modern technology to improve the efficiency of their practices. Described by the company as a "digital ecosystem," HELIX will serve all of the ECP’s digital needs in one intelligent, interconnected platform—from booking and ordering to teleoptometry and managed vision care. The company stated that HELIX will help doctors to reduce the overwhelming amount of tech and administrative burdens found in today’s practices.
By Staff
Tuesday, May 31, 2022 12:15 AM
RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif.—
Eyefinity, a
VSP Vision company and leader in practice management and electronic health records software, achieved full accreditation from the
Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission’s (EHNAC) Healthcare Network Accreditation Program (HNAP) for its Electronic Health Network (EHN) platform, VSP Vision announced recently. The accreditation program recognizes excellence in health data processing and assurances relating to compliance with industry standards and HIPAA regulations. EHNAC’s comprehensive third-party review evaluated Eyefinity in three areas including privacy measures, systems availability, and security infrastructure.
By Staff
Thursday, May 19, 2022 12:18 AM
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—
DrChrono Inc., a platform for electronic health records and medical practices, has been selected as the winner of the “EHR Innovation” award in the sixth annual MedTech Breakthrough Awards program. DrChrono worked with CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort), an emergency relief non-profit organization co-founded by Sean Penn and Ann Lee, Curogram, a leading HIPAA-compliant patient communications tool and messaging platform, and the state of Georgia to operate mobile and fixed COVID-19 vaccine sites, with a goal to deliver vaccines to underserved patients throughout all 18 health districts in Georgia, according to the company’s recent announcement.
By Staff
Tuesday, June 30, 2020 12:24 AM
Andy Chance-Hill,
Ocuco’s OmniChannel director, has spent the past 20 years working in the optics industry globally. In his work over the past three months, it has become evident to him that the shift in the optical sector, in particular, toward online sales and telehealth is here to stay. Observing this strong trend, Chance-Hill believes it is important to respond to a
Vision Monday feature article –
“The Patient Journey: An Ongoing Evolution” – that was published in
VM’s April issue.
By Staff
Thursday, June 25, 2020 12:24 AM
TAMPA and BOCA RATON, Fla.—
Healthy Eyes Advantage (HEA) and leading HIPAA compliance solution provider
Abyde have announced a partnership that will provide access for HEA’s 10,000-plus independent ECP members to Abyde’s complete HIPAA program.
By Staff
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 12:18 AM
BASEL, Switzerland—
Novartis has completed the acquisition of
Amblyotech, a U.S.-based software startup and will now pursue the treatment of amblyopia.
By Mark Tosh
Monday, October 21, 2019 12:30 AM
From health care to retail, data has become an invaluable resource for businesses and practitioners. It’s what many see as the key ingredient to better meeting, and exceeding, consumer or patient expectations, and it provides a critical yardstick for measuring success across a variety of metrics. In eyecare and optical retailing, the growing interest in data also has led to an increase in the number of options partner companies are developing that collect, track and analyze the data for ECPs to draw upon to manage their practice. From software and tech companies to alliances and large retail groups, a dashboard or other analytical tools have become part of the de facto offering to member ECPs.
By Staff
Tuesday, July 31, 2018 12:18 AM
SAN FRANCISCO—
Verana Health, a health care data company based here, announced a $30 million Series C financing led by GV (formerly Google Ventures) with participation from existing investors Biomatics Capital, Brook Byers, founder of Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, GE Ventures, and Lagunita Biosciences. In addition, Verana Health announced that health care veteran Miki Kapoor has joined the company as president and CEO. Kapoor has two decades of experience scaling health care data companies and working with health care organizations in operations, policy, strategy, and finance.
By Staff
Wednesday, May 9, 2018 12:18 AM
RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif.—
VSP Global has announced an investment in
PokitDok Inc., a health care company that uses a type of cloud-based computing known as platform-as-a-service to support the development and management of applications.
By Staff
Friday, April 27, 2018 12:18 AM
BOISE, Idaho, and KINGWOOD, Texas—
Vision Source, North America’s largest independent optometric alliance, and
Kno2, a provider of Interoperability as a Service (IaaS) across health care, said Thursday they will collaborate to improve the eye exam referral process within the health care community. The “Kno2: Interoperability as a Service” solution enables an efficient, closed-loop referral process “that gives physicians the information they need when they need it, improving the overall quality of care,” according to the joint announcement.