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Practice Management

7 Signs Your Optometry Software Needs an Upgrade

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RevolutionEHR Team
May 9, 2024
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Highlights

  • Outdated optometry software can cause inefficiencies in your practice, leading to reduced patient satisfaction and slow operations.
  • Upgrading to RevolutionEHR boosts efficiency, streamlines staff workflows, and improves patient loyalty.
  • RevolutionEHR offers features like online scheduling, automated billing and insurance, and reporting capabilities that simplify administrative tasks and leave more time for patient care.
  • With strong security measures and real-time analytics, RevolutionEHR offers a secure practice management solution that helps you identify inefficiencies and make changes for continued growth.

Optometry software serves as the central hub for managing your eyecare practice, facilitating the seamless management of your business. This includes scheduling, patient record organization, billing, insurance processing, and generating essential reports, all of which are integral to coordinating your practice’s daily operations.

Without modern EHR software for optometry, you may encounter inefficiencies such as delayed billing, inaccurate record-keeping, and scheduling conflicts. These issues can disrupt your practice’s workflow, resulting in challenges related to cash flow, documentation accuracy, and patient service delivery.

Optometrists can overcome these challenges by adopting an innovative, cloud-based EHR platform tailored to their needs. Recognize the indicators that suggest your current software may need an upgrade and discover how RevolutionEHR can enhance efficiency and patient satisfaction by streamlining workflows through automation and improved accessibility.

Sign 1: Slow or Inefficient Patient Record Management

Outdated EHR systems can cause your practice to operate less efficiently. If the system isn’t well designed, you spend too much time on paperwork — typing in eye exam results, looking up patient details, and adding retinal images, for example — instead of caring for your patients. This lack of efficiency interrupts your daily workflow, leading to longer workdays and reducing the number of patients you can see.

Switching to a modern EHR system can make managing patient records much easier. RevolutionEHR lets you quickly enter data, easily look up old records, and manage images and documents more efficiently. This makes your practice run smoother and helps you care for your patients better.

Sign 2: Difficulty in Scheduling and Managing Appointments

Traditional scheduling systems can make managing appointments difficult, resulting in inefficiencies. Older systems often don’t offer the flexibility needed to change schedules easily, which can lead to double bookings or missed appointments.

Additionally, they might rely on manual entry. This process not only takes up staff time but also doesn’t meet the expectations of the majority of patients (80%) who prefer the convenience of booking online.

Switching to an advanced system such as RevolutionEHR can streamline scheduling and managing appointments in your practice. Its user-friendly interface facilitates easy modifications and provides a clear overview of daily or weekly schedules.

It also allows patients to book or cancel appointments online, and with automated text or email reminders, the likelihood of missed appointments or double bookings is reduced.

Sign 3: Limited Customization

Many optometry practices face challenges with conventional EHR systems that don’t align with their specific operational needs. Issues such as rigid exam templates, strict data entry fields, and difficulty obtaining customized financial reports can make workflows inefficient and detract from patient care.

RevolutionEHR addresses these issues by providing extensive customization options. It allows for tailored exam encounters, adaptable data entry, and the capability to generate accounting reports for specific dates, ensuring the system meets the unique demands of your practice.

Capabilities like automated referral letters, integrated optical Rx creation, and customizable test results ensure patient care is tailored to your standards and the way you like to work. These features enhance the efficiency of your practice and increase patient satisfaction.

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Sign 4: Inadequate Integration with Billing and Insurance Processes

Moving between different systems for patient care, billing, and handling insurance claims can cause mistakes, slow down payments, and create a burdensome amount of paperwork. This approach, especially when using outdated or free optometry software, complicates tracking patient balances, efficiently submitting claims, and dealing with denials or follow-up tasks.

RevolutionEHR simplifies these challenges by offering an all-in-one billing solution within the same system used for patient care. You can manage everything from intake to insurance claims and patient billing with one login.

RevPayments enable the acceptance of credit cards, mobile apps, and online payments, reducing the occurrence of partial payments or outstanding balances. Within the same platform, RevClear offers automated insurance processing, which minimizes the rate of claim denials and improves reimbursement rates.

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“I have used four previous Optometric programs and EHRs. Revolution is the most impressive EHR to date. I also appreciate the ability of Revolution to continually make changes to improve their system.”

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"RevolutionEHR is an unbelievably customizable product with exceptional “front of office” capabilities combined with an excellent EMR. All of this supported by a very friendly and helpful customer support staff with a genuine personal approach."

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OD

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"With multiple locations, I can see what is happening from anywhere. I have doctors who were less than stellar on record keeping and this helps them be efficient and thorough."

Torrey Carlson

OD

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"The ability for us to access it anywhere and not have to run into the office on weekends to access a patient’s chart when they call is awesome."

Lauren Marshall

Office Manager, Downtown Eye Care

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"RevolutionEHR is very easy to use, dependable, and has great customer service."

Jennie Huber

Biller, Mason Vision Center

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"I like the ease of customization exams/encounters can be done "on the fly." Also the reporting is amazing!"

Angie Fouts

Office Manager, Vision Care Clinic, PC

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"RevolutionEHR is easy to use and has a quick learning curve. It contains all the exam information necessary for our operation."

Nickolas Scavo

Optometrist, OD LensCrafters

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"Best thought out EMR of any I have seen by far."

Ralph Hendrix

Optometrist, dc.rr.com

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"Very easy to navigate and straight forward."

Casey Smith

Optometrist, The Ohio State University

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"RevolutionEHR is intuitive, smooth, and works as advertised. I also like that it is a cloud-based system - very nice for multiple locations."

Eric Dale

Optometrist, Indiana University

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"RevolutionEHR is easy to use and the customer support is great. They are constantly working to improve RevolutionEHR for all users."

Larry Motacek

Optometrist, Lifetime Vision 20/20

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"I have ALWAYS found RevolutionEHR support to be helpful when I reach out to them. I love that the product is cloud-based as I can access it anywhere in the event of a patient emergency."

Kelly McGahen

Office Manager, Joel H McGahen OD. PC.

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"I love how the encounters are customizable and thus have enabled us to pass insurance audits with a 100% score."

Linda Abney

Office Manager, Independent Creative Consultants

Sign 5: Limited Accessibility and Mobile Functionality

In the digital age, eye care professionals need access to their practice information wherever they are. However, many older EHR systems offer limited access and don’t work well on mobile devices. This means you might be unable to look at patient files, book appointments, or update care plans when you’re not in the office.

RevolutionEHR provides mobile-friendly features, giving you access to your practice information anywhere and on any device.

While other systems play catch-up, RevolutionEHR has been cloud-based from the beginning — designed for easy navigation on tablets, iPads, and smartphones. You can easily access practice data, organize schedules, and communicate with patients through secure messaging features for improved efficiency.

Sign 6: Poor Reporting and Analytics Capabilities

Having insights into data like inventory sales, outstanding invoices, and appointment attendance rates is critical for a thriving optometry practice. However, traditional EHR systems often lack analytics, making identifying trends, understanding patient behaviors, or evaluating your services’ performance challenging.

When you upgrade to RevolutionEHR optometry practice management software, you can access advanced analytics and reporting capabilities to see practice-wide data in real time. You can pull customized reports, such as total sales for exam services and inventory sales, to understand financial performance and drive growth.

With a data analytics tool from RevolutionEHR, you get a clear view of key performance indicators (KPIs) such as patient demographics, eyeglasses and contact lenses sales rates, and outstanding payments, all through an easy-to-use dashboard. This enables you to closely monitor your practice’s performance metrics and make adjustments to improve overall efficiency.

Sign 7: Frequent System Downtimes or Security Concerns

Between 2018 and 2023, businesses faced over $860.3 million in losses due to downtime caused by ransomware attacks. Outdated EHR systems, lacking solid security measures and cloud access, can expose your optometry practice to cyber threats and operational disruptions, leading to financial losses and diminished patient trust.

Modern cloud-based optometry software such as RevolutionEHR provides a dependable and secure solution, implementing advanced security protocols to protect your data and prevent downtime. HIPAA-compliant SHA-256 encryption and two-factor authentication safeguards against data breaches and unauthorized access to sensitive information.

RevolutionEHR, being a web-based service, experiences less downtime compared to on-site alternatives, ensuring uninterrupted workflows.

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Recognizing the Need for a Change

The first step toward operational improvement is to recognize operational inefficiencies, whether they are sluggish patient record management or subpar billing processes.RevolutionEHR offers innovative solutions, like customizable analytics, simplified insurance and billing, and online scheduling, to tackle these issues head-on, boosting practice efficiency and improving patient care.

Learn More About RevolutionEHR

If you’re ready for an optometry software upgrade, switch to RevolutionEHR. Download our free eBook to learn more about the platform, or schedule a demo with one of our RevolutionEHR Specialists to experience how the best optometry software can give you the freedom to focus on improving efficiency and growing your practice.

RevolutionEHR Team
RevolutionEHR Team

Backed by deep expertise in optometry and a commitment to the success of eye care practices, RevolutionEHR offers insights and perspectives designed to help providers streamline operations, enhance patient care, and thrive in a changing healthcare landscape.

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