Point-of-service testing

Treating the ocular surface was once again the major emphasis of an incredibly large number of talks at the 2014 American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery meeting in Boston, and a hot topic was point-of-service testing. Some of this is old news to those of you who have been treating dry eye syndrome (DES) and ocular surface disease (OSD), even if you’ve just been reading my drivel. There are two parts of this that I find fascinating. First, that it’s still news that treating the ocular surface is so vital to the care of so many patients, and second, that there is still pushback from even long-established OSD programs to adopt point-of-service testing.