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Creating an effective and repeatable onboarding process

Creating an effective and repeatable onboarding process

Issue 1 of Spyglass Spotlight on Staffing set the stage for Building Your Dream Team; issue 2 discussed how to approach recruiting with a championship mindset; issue 3 dove deep into the interview process itself. In this article, our goal is to explore the onboarding process for any new associate you bring onto your team.

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Seven strategies for building your more independent practice

Our goal at Spyglass is to help eye care providers gain or reclaim their independence in practice. We work to provide education that allows you to have greater control over your professional decisions, expand your patient base, and establish yourself as a leader in the field.

Optimizing outcomes for your patient and practice with Direct Care

Direct Care is a model designed such that your staff and patients experience what healthcare is supposed to be about and to strengthen the relationships between doctor, practice, and patient in a way that establishes trust.

Connecting contact lens evaluation fees and your standard of care

Whether you’re in a sublease or independent private practice, the thinking that goes behind your professional fees should be taken seriously and re-evaluated from time to time.

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Optimizing outcomes for your patient and practice with Direct Care

Direct Care is a model designed such that your staff and patients experience what healthcare is supposed to be about and to strengthen the relationships between doctor, practice, and patient in a way that establishes trust.

Spyglass Spotlight #3 of 12 | The Interview: techniques, top tips, and thought process

Welcome to part 3 of our 12 part series on how to build your ideal team.

Eye care providers: take these action steps to reduce COGS, boost profits, and win!

These simple strategies are purpose built to improve the financial outcomes for your independent eye care practice

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Being an Open Access provider + View All

The four primary ways to work with vision insurance

In-network, out of network, opt-out, Open Access - as an eye care professional, one of the most important decisions you'll have to make for your practice lies not in whether or not to participate in vision plans, but how you choose to do that.

Unplugging from vision plans with ODs on Finance

Watch as we discuss the problem with vision plans, how to drop them and how you can guarantee success out-of-network.

3 ways to submit out-of-network vision claims

How do eye care providers handle out-of-network claims? We take a look at three different approaches to out-of-network claim submission.

Practice Management + View All

Creating an effective and repeatable onboarding process

Issue 1 of Spyglass Spotlight on Staffing set the stage for Building Your Dream Team; issue 2 discussed how to approach recruiting with a championship mindset; issue 3 dove deep into the interview process itself. In this article, our goal is to explore the onboarding process for any new associate you bring onto your team.

Connecting contact lens evaluation fees and your standard of care

Whether you’re in a sublease or independent private practice, the thinking that goes behind your professional fees should be taken seriously and re-evaluated from time to time.

Spyglass Spotlight #3 of 12 | The Interview: techniques, top tips, and thought process

Welcome to part 3 of our 12 part series on how to build your ideal team.

Lens Comparisons + View All

ZEISS vs. Varilux progressive lenses

Interested in selling independent eyewear such as ZEISS? We can help you get started by providing comparisons to common good, better, best Varilux progressive lenses.

Comparing Varilux vs. Hoya progressive lenses

Planning on escaping the eyewear monopoly? Hoya offers lenses that can help you do it. Here are how they compare with Varilux progressive lenswear.

Comparing Varilux and Shamir progressive lenses

Eyewear is eye care. As an eye care professional you need to ensure each patient has lenses that fit their unique needs. How do Shamir and Varilux stack up?

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Consumers are different now. Are you ready?

We are living in interesting times to say the least: inflation, economic downturns, global unrest, social media and all that has come with it. So much has changed in the world over the last 16 years since I graduated from ICO.

How to create loyalty through the convenience of Tele-optometry

Eye care was already going through major shifts with regard to access to care long before anyone had even heard of Covid-19 or its variants and like lots of other things, the pandemic caused many to rethink how access to care can work.

Dry eye journey - the launch

So you've decided to start your dry eye practice - congratulations! It takes time, deliberation, and a fair amount of courage to get this far.

Independent Eye Care + View All

Seven strategies for building your more independent practice

Our goal at Spyglass is to help eye care providers gain or reclaim their independence in practice. We work to provide education that allows you to have greater control over your professional decisions, expand your patient base, and establish yourself as a leader in the field.

Optimizing outcomes for your patient and practice with Direct Care

Direct Care is a model designed such that your staff and patients experience what healthcare is supposed to be about and to strengthen the relationships between doctor, practice, and patient in a way that establishes trust.

Increasing optical sales and providing better access to care with Tele-Optometry

Optical Retailers are facing a growing problem finding on-site eye doctor coverage. Thousands of locations have little to no coverage while many are limited to one or two days per week.

Industry Updates + View All

What it means: HMSA drops vision plan and brings EyeMed to Hawaii

HMSA is dropping its vision plan in favor of EyeMed. What does HMSA bringing in an outside vision plan mean for your practice and your patients?

Diversity in optometric care: Striving toward equitable eyecare

In order to improve diversity in optometry, we should focus on serving underrepresented areas, and new optometrists can help lead the charge.

Marketing + View All

Evaluating your online presence

Having the right tools available to your prospective customers tells them that your office is modern, convenient, and concerned with their experience before they even have to call your office.

Patients need sunwear and want style - here’s how you deliver both

What small changes can you make to your marketing, social media, and practice operating procedures to change the situation from an opportunity to a profit center?

5 holiday success strategies for your optical

The holidays are here and they bring plenty of opportunities to improve patients' buying experiences!

Prosper + View All

5 ways to prosper with Prosper

Anagram Prosper is here. But how do you use it? We break down how to prosper with Prosper here.

Introducing Prosper: Offer patients instant rebates for free

Instantly generate rebates for patients on eyewear you're already selling!

The good, the bad and the ugly of rebates

Rebates have the potential to strengthen patient relationships and boost sales. Unfortunately, most rebates are set up to be a hassle. So how can ECPs make sure rebates work for their patients?

Partner Articles + View All

Contact Lenses and The Walk Problem

Whether it's streaming media, meal kit deliveries, or curated boxes of stuff, almost all of your patients have an optional monthly subscription or two; apply this to your eye care practice and stop the walk problem before it starts.

Quality eye care: Doing the math

ODs and ECPs are faced with a significant number of competing forces, how can one navigate these while still running a successful, effective, patient centric practice?

Staffing optometry: Adapting to the Great Resignation

The Great Resignation is presenting problems for all kinds of business. Optometry staffing has become increasingly difficult. But what if the solution didn't include hiring?

Company Updates + View All

Anagram opens access to in-network vision plan billing

Eye care professionals that are contracted with vision plans can now use Anagram to simplify their in-office workflows and access all vision benefit information in one place

Reflecting on 2022 and a peek into Anagram's plan for 2023

A letter from Anagram co-founder and CEO, Jeremy Bluvol

Vision Expo East 2022: Eye care returns to New York City

Vision Expo East was back in New York City in 2022. So how did it go? Read more to find out through Anagram's eyes!

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How to create loyalty through the convenience of Tele-optometry

Dry eye journey - the launch

Building a human centric business driven by smart tech

Dry Eye Care - A Whole New World?

The Value of Values in Eyewear

Point of View: an Optician's perspective on e-commerce in eye care

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