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Optometry Telehealth Connects Providers With Patients During COVID-19

During the pandemic coronavirus (COVID-19) healthcare crisis, many eye care practices have temporarily closed or reduced office hours and are only providing urgent and emergent procedures. To protect the health of employees and patients, practices are transitioning to using optometry telehealth (remote non-clinical) and telemedicine (remote clinical) services to connect with and provide remote care to patients.

April 22, 2020

RCM and Optometry Billing Services Are Critical During COVID-19

Continual cash flow and healthy accounts receivables are critical for your eye care practice during the unprecedented novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Now’s the time to look at your AR and aging bucket to prevent serious cash flow problems down the road.

March 28, 2020

7 Eye-Opening Ways to Manage Your Optometry Staff

Your optometry staff is the face of your practice before a patient ever sits in the exam chair or gets fitted for contact lenses. Running a successful optometry practice demands excellent leadership and vision—and recognizing your staff as key drivers of patient satisfaction and revenue growth.

January 6, 2020

ICD-10-CM Codes Guide: 2020 Updates for Eye Care Practices

Is your eye care practice preparing for the 2020 ICD-10-CM code changes? Do you know what eye-related diagnosis codes were added and deleted for fiscal year 2020?

August 14, 2019

EHR Systems: Favorite Time-Saving Features Revealed by the Pros

What do eye care professionals really think about their EHR system? In September of 2018, eye care professionals who stopped by our booth at Vision Expo West completed a survey to reveal their opinions.

March 20, 2019

First Insight: 25 Years of Innovation and Client Success

1994 was quite a long time ago. Starting a software company back then was not nearly as common as it is today, especially in the eye care industry. Here we are...25 years later.

February 18, 2019

First Insight Expands MaximEyes Sales Team

Since 1994, First Insight’s primary objective has been to help our customers focus on caring for patients and running a successful practice supported by MaximEyes EHR and practice management software.

February 11, 2019

First Insight Receives Award for MaximEyes Power Trainings

For the seventh consecutive year, First Insight, developers of MaximEyes certified EHR and practice management software for eye care professionals, received the 2018 Learning! 100 award from the Elearning! Media Group for achieving excellence for “best-in-class” learning and development programs. This year First Insight was honored in the “performance” category for the MaximEyes Power Trainings we host in select cities throughout the United States.

September 12, 2018

MaximEyes EHR Earns 2015 ONC Health IT Certification

First Insight Corporation, developers of MaximEyes certified EHR software for optometrists and ophthalmologists, announced that on March 26, 2018, MaximEyes EHR software (Version 3.0) received the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC Health IT) 2015 Edition Health IT Certification—meeting 100% of ONC’s base certification criteria.

April 25, 2018

U.S. Vision Selects MaximEyes EHR as New Partner for 600 Locations

After an in-depth two-year evaluation comparing various electronic health records (EHRs) used by optometrists, U.S. Vision and its affiliate, Nationwide Vision, selected MaximEyes EHR by First Insight Corporation as its new optometry EHR partner. First Insight is delighted that U.S. Vision and Nationwide Vision took the time to carefully assess and compare various optometry EHRs over two years, before making its final selection.

February 22, 2018

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