The Best of 2013

In emCataract and Refractive Surgery Today’s/em annual article,
members of the publication’s editorial advisory board look
back at the year winding down and make their selections
of its best offerings. Of course, it is possible that, by…

Femtosecond Lasers: Are They Becoming a Necessity?

Since my residency days, it has been my desire to
perform all ocular surgery in the office with a single
instrument (a laser with real-time diagnostics and
intraprocedural measurements) and achieve an
emmetropic result in every case. With the …

Of Cell Phones and Man

The 2013 meeting of the European Society of
Cataract and Refractive Surgeons was held in
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, a city boasting
about 800,000 people and 880,000 bicycles.sup1/sup
Many factors have led to the development of this bikefr…

The EHR Jungle: Survival of the Fittest

In all my years working with technologies to help
ophthalmologists enhance their practice of medicine,
I have never seen anything quite like the process of
transitioning from paper to digital medical records. In
my consulting practice, I have …

Lessons Learned Implementing EHRs

Implementing electronic health records (EHRs) is a
team effort that requires many steps to be successful.
A critical one is assessing your practice’s readiness
to meet the Health Information Technology for
Economic Clinical Health (HITECH) A…