Technology

Artificial intelligence has the potential to have a significant impact on ophthalmology in the coming years.

Chuck Hess provides a company update at the OIS@AAO meeting in Chicago, Oct. 2018.

Video game helps youth with cerebral visual impairment

Whether we like it or not, artificial intelligence has arrived

Insight Software, creators of My Vision Express, has been ranked by Inc. magazine as one of the nation's fastest-growing private companies.

Corcoran Compliance Connection will provide real-time coding recommendations based on chart documentation in electronic health record (EHR) systems.

Smartphones can be a big help to the visually impaired, but few eye-care professionals (ECPs) are recommending them to patients, according to the results of a study presented at this year’s annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology.

EMRlogic Systems and Kowa Optimed have released a new electronic health record (EHR) system (activEHR 2012.1)

Compulink Business Systems, Inc. has announced it will sponsor practice consultant John Pinto on his month-long, trans?Pacific sailing adventure to support the Hawaiian Eye Foundation (HEF). In what is being called the ?Voyage to EHR,? Pinto?s voyage is meant to help educate and support the ophthalmic community during the transition many practices are making this year to electronic health records.

Ophthalmologists have unique needs when shopping for electronic health record systems.

In an effort to assess and address the vision-related effects of the increased use of technology in learning environments, the American Optometric Association (AOA) has conducted a survey and released a report.

In an effort to assist ophthalmologists in the market for an electronic health record (EHR) system as well as the vendors who make such systems, the Medical Information Technology Committee (MITC) of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) has developed a list of features that ophthalmology practices need from EHR systems to deliver quality patient care, enhance physician-to-physician communication, and meet the ?meaningful use? standards required by health care reform policies.

The Premier Healthcare Alliance, which includes more than 2,500 U.S. hospitals and more than 75,000 other health care sites, has recognized an electronic documentation system (Connex, Welch Allyn) as one of 18 top medical device innovations introduced in 2010.

Four eye-care professionals will receive federal stimulus payments after attesting to meaningful use of the certified version of a proprietary electronic health record (EHR) system (OfficeMate/ExamWriter v10, Eyefinity).

The mandatory implementation of electronic health records looms in 2014 for health-care professionals and hospital providers.

Kowa Optimed and EMRlogic Systems Inc. have integrated an e-prescribing solution (DrFirst Rcopia) into proprietary electronic medical record (EMR) management software (activEHR).