AAOE Membership, American Academy of Ophthalmic Executives, the practice management division of the American Academy of Ophthalmology
Risk and Reward: The Leap into Private Practice – ONE Network
IRIS Registry (Intelligent Research in Sight)
Diagnose This: Senior woman presents with 1 month of blurred vision OD – ONE Network
Financial Transparency: ‘Sunshine Law’ Overview: American Academy of Ophthalmology
Financial Transparency: ‘Sunshine Law’ Overview
Beginning Aug. 1, manufacturers and certain other entities must begin collecting information about their payments to and other financial relationships with physicians and teaching hospitals. CMS will begin an annual, public release of the data in September 2014, a program known as Open Payments. The program was stipulated by a physician “sunshine law” passed as part of the health care reform law. The aim of Open Payments is to ensure greater transparency about health care providers’ financial interests.
Related Resources
• CMS Open Payments site
• AMA guide to the law
• AdvaMed guide
• PhRMA site: Healthy Dialogues
Physicians and hospitals have no data-collection responsibility. However, providers will be able to review and, as needed, correct their information before its public release. To help members understand the law’s implications for them, the Academy has prepared the following overview
via Financial Transparency: 'Sunshine Law' Overview: American Academy of Ophthalmology.
New iOS 7, why it’s easier on the eyes.
With the new iOS 7, the contrast is so much better with white letters on dark backgrounds and black letters on light and white backgrounds (the best). The worst are white letters on light back grounds. See below for examples on some of the new wallpaper backgrounds.
Pressing on your home button 3 consecutive times will change background to black and letters to white for improved contrast and better for viewing at night. See last image as an example. Repeat the 3 clicks to return to normal.
Article and images created from my iPhone 5.
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Pearls for starting your first job just out of residency or fellowship
Pearls in Dealing with Colleagues
• Never be afraid to ask for a consult (help).
• Admit when you are wrong.
• Strive to learn from the patients you refer in order to improve your own skills.
• Ask for a follow-up on the status of a patient that you referred.
• Ask your colleagues questions related to the practice, clinical and surgical skills.
• Provide new information to your colleagues with gentleness and respect. Remember, they still may be using older terminology
• Always be willing to help… be the ultimate team player.
• Remember colleagues’ birthdays and special family occasions. It is time to think beyond you; consider the needs of others above your own.
Interactions with Consulting Physicians
• Introduce yourself to all of the physicians and allied health care professionals when you first start and/or move to a new community.
• Dictate letters not only for Consults (which is required), carbon copy (CC) the letter to all doctors involved in the patient’s care.
• Provide information in your consult letter that is educational. Thank the individual in the letter for the consult and call them personally when possible. Providing a high quality letter will surely build your reputation.
• Attend many community functions to meet the public.
• Volunteer to speak at community organizations and health fairs.
• Coordinate a lecture series involving a broad spectrum of Physicians, from the podiatrist to the ophthalmologist; discuss Diabetes and the latest diagnostic and treatment modalities.
On-Call Issues
• Be respectful of everybody, even when it is 2:30 in the morning.
• Remember, you have a specific skill that a person needs of you. Be grateful for the opportunity to serve them.
• Create a special on-call bag (if applicable)
• Obtain CPR certification and ACLS certification. Know the basics of emergency care (ABCs). Remember, we are physicians first (if you are in a surgical subspecialty).
Personal Time
• Spend time with family and friends…get reacquainted with your family now that you are done with your formal training.
• Begin financial planning for you and your family.
• Do not over-commit.
• Remain enthusiastic… after all, you are practicing medicine.
Rob Melendez, MD, MBA
Robert F. Melendez, MD 