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Escalon Medical Corp. announced in a press release that it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance for its Sonomed Escalon VuPad.The company said in the release that the portable VuPad combines its ultrasound biomicroscopy (UBM) with an ultra-high-resolution screen. The system can capture both still images and video clips and is operated by touch-screen controls.

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On April 1, President Barack Obama signed into law the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014.In addition to providing a 13-month Medicare sustained growth rate formula “patch” that prevented a 24% cut to Medicare physician payments, the legislation pushes back national implementation of the next generation of diagnosis and inpatient procedure codes, known as ICD-10. The new code set is designed to accommodate new diseases and procedures as well as be more descriptive and specific. The transition, however, requires anyone covered by the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act to (Read more...)

TOKYO — A novel IOL model with high near addition provides low vision patients with good distance vision and the ability to read with reduced or no need for special devices, according to one surgeon. The Lentis Mplus High Add IOL (Oculentis) is a hydrophobic acrylic biconvex IOL with a +8 D sector-shaped near addition resulting in 6 D of near correction at the spectacle plane and 1.5 times magnifying power. “It provides image magnification for near — quite useful for AMD patients who normally have to rely on low (Read more...)

TOKYO — Successful implementation of an action plan on eye health by the World Health Organization relies on awareness, coordination of efforts and synergistic work of the ophthalmologic community at large, ophthalmological societies and governments, Ivo Kocur, MD, said at the World Ophthalmology Congress. Kocur defined the strategy, the WHO Universal Eye Health: A Global Action Plan 2014-2019, as “a very unique, comprehensive effort and a major accomplishment.” For the first time, all 194 member states set a common global target: 25% reduction in the prevalence of avoidable visual impairment (Read more...)