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ALEXANDRIA, Va.—The Vision Council's Executive Summit kicked off on Tuesday, January 26 with a welcome reception hosted by Ashley Mills, CEO of The Vision Council, and continues until Thursday, January 28. Taking place in an all-new, virtual format, the 2021 event brings together more than 200 industry leaders for three days of executive-level networking and leadership development. Designed to illuminate the state of the vision care industry, spotlight key business trends and present concrete approaches Read more.
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PADUA, Italy—The board of Safilo Group has examined and reported the Group’s preliminary net sales for the financial year ended Dec. 31, 2020. The Board will approve the full year annual results on March 11, 2021. Safilo’s preliminary net sales equaled €780.3 million, down 15.2 percent at constant exchange rates and 16.9 percent at current exchange rates compared to €939 million recorded in 2019. This is due to the sharp decline suffered in the first Read more.
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WASHINGTON—The Health Care Alliance for Patient Safety (APS) has announced David A. Cockrell, OD, as its new chairman. Dr. Cockrell, a practicing optometrist in Stillwater, Okla., succeeds Deanna Alexander, O.D., whose term as chairwoman concluded at the end of 2020. “Under the leadership of inaugural chairwoman Deanna Alexander, OD, the Health Care Alliance for Patient Safety quickly established itself as the leader in advocating for policy that safeguards the millions of contact lens-wearing patients across the U.S.,” said Dr. Read more.
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BOSTON, Mass.—New England College of Optometry (NECO) has announced the receipt of a grant from the The Coca-Cola Foundation, the philanthropic arm of The Coca-Cola Company, that will fund a new diversity and inclusion scholarship. Beatriz Perez, chair and president of The Coca-Cola Foundation stated, “The Coca-Cola Foundation is committed to empowering communities, including a strong focus on education. We are pleased to provide new support to enable minority and students with disabilities to pursue advanced studies in Read more.
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GREEN BAY, Wis.—Shopko Optical has named Liz DiGiandomenico as a new member of its board of managers, according to an announcement this week. In her previous industry work, DiGiandomenico worked with Luxottica and gained 22 years of experience in the eyecare sector. During her tenure there, she held various leadership roles within finance and accounting and had over 10 years of experience in managed vision care in her role as general manager of Luxottica’s Read more.
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NEW YORK—Glasses USA.com a subsidiary of Optimax Eyewear, announced last week the close of $45 million in funding from Tene Investment Fund. Established in 2008, GlassesUSA.com offers consumers prescription and non-prescription eyewear at affordable prices, through an online shopping experience. The company offers well-known eyewear brands as well as five different private label brands which represent over 50 percent of company sales, the announcement said. The company uses fulfillment centers and labs globally and reports Read more.
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 When a new PlayStation comes out, I'm never rushing to get it. I always wait until they work out all the bugs and the kinks first. So that's the same way I feel about the COVID-19 vaccine.
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CONTACT LENSES
SynergEyes Launches SynergEyes iD, a Next Gen Hybrid Contact Lens
Product:
SynergEyes iD
Top Line:SynergEyes is launching the next generation of hybrid contact lenses: SynergEyes iD. A breakthrough in contact lens design for those with astigmatism and presbyopia, hyperopia and myopia, SynergEyes iD provides premium performance to both doctors and patients.
Close Up: SynergEyes iD hybrid lenses are individually designed to each patient’s unique ocular anatomy utilizing Keratometric readings, HVID and Refraction to personalize precise lens parameters. There is no need
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FRAME COLLECTION
Mita Eyewear Adds Blue Block Lenses
Quick Take:
Mita Eyewear is adding a number of optical frames with “bio blue block lenses” to its collection.
Specifics: Women’s frames with blue block lenses include MIO1001, a cat-eye frame with blue block lenses in the matte red with Havana temples colorway; MIO1014, an oversized square frame with blue block lenses available in its matte red wine variant; and MIO1011, a classic steel double bridged frame, which offers blue block lenses in its
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ALSO NEW
ADO Practice Solutions Launches Patient Refocus
Product:
Patient Refocus, powered by DONE4YOU Marketing.
Top Line:ADO Practice Solutions, a Walman Company, has announced a new Marketing Program, PATIENT REFOCUS, powered by DONE4YOU Marketing.
Close Up: The marketing program is designed to help independent ECPs as they counter the effects of COVID-19 and its impact on business, especially considering that the months of March-May could be challenging in terms of patient recall. As part of Patient Refocus, ADO’s team of marketing
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Eighty-eight percent of respondents to a recent Women In Optometry (WO) Pop-Up Poll have already received at least one of their two injections for the COVID-19 vaccine. More than 600 respondents participated in the poll, which found that nearly 60 percent had one dose from Moderna, and 21 percent had one dose from Pfizer. Just about 8 percent had received both doses of either vaccine. Six percent were planning to get the vaccine but had not yet, while another 6 percent are not planning to get it all.
The poll asked participants about any side effects they experienced after receiving the vaccine. The most common side effect, as noted by more than half of respondents (408) was injection site soreness/swelling/itchiness/redness. Soreness that extended to their arm/shoulder/joints followed in most common (221), as well as fatigue/sluggishness (139) and headaches (105). Some individuals said there were no side effects (71) followed by a number of other side effects and reactions.
Click here to read the full story from Women In Optometry (WO). Read more.
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About This Post: While we humans patiently wait for our turn to get a COVID-19 vaccine, some startups are also working on vaccinations for our furry friends. Last year, COVID jumped from a human to a mink, and then, Fast Company reports, "started to mutate in new ways—and then infect more humans." Some scientists worry that this could happen again with other animals. Head over to Fast Company to learn about the pet vaccines in the pipeline, and if you'll eventually need to sign your cat up, too.
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NEW YORK—All service/product categories, with the exception of contact lenses, experienced some increases in optical sales on a national level over the course of last week (Jan. 18-24), according to Jobson’s latest Practice Performance Tracker. Nationally, optical sales were up 2 index points for exams/refractions, frame units, and lens pairs, and gross revenue was up by 1 index point. Heading in the opposite direction, sales of contact lenses were down -4 index points last week. Read More
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Some long-planned significant changes seemed to pale in comparison with the daily news of the pandemic and its stresses and strains on the health care infrastructure. One of these long-planned changes is to the Evaluation & Management (E&M) coding system that has been in place with very little annual modification since 1995. In fact, the last significant change was in 1997—until now. 2021 brings us not only a new year, but also new definitions and rules when using the E&M codes in our practices—and yes, they will be easier and less complicated. Read More
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CooperVision Specialty EyeCare announced that it has begun offering 5 mm back optic zone diameter (BOZD) customization for Paragon CRT and Paragon CRT Dual Axis contact lenses. Read more.
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