Sightview, an electronic health record and practice management partner focused on eyecare, has appointed Tycene Fritcher as CEO. Ms. Fritcher will help implement new technologies to improve its offerings for ophthalmologists and other eye care providers, according to a June…
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Amaros, a developer of an ophthalmic AI platform, has closed on a series A financing round. The additional funding will help the company continue product development, expand commercial partnerships and scale its engineering, clinical and data sciences teams, according to…
Stamford, Conn.-based ReFocus Eye Health has partnered with Atlantic Retina Center, which has six locations across Maryland and Delaware. Atlantic Retina Center was founded in 2004 and treats diseases of the retina, vitreous and macula of the eye, according to…
The Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus received a $40 million gift to enhance research into treatment of eye diseases. The school will use the gift to treat and potentially cure eye diseases such as…
Joseph Conahan, Jr., MD, co-founder of Pocono Eye Associates in East Stroudsburg, Pa., has died June 3 at the age of 81, according to a June 5 obituary posted in the Pocono Record. Before co-founding the eye clinic in 1975,…
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Greenville, S.C.-based Eye Health America has added an ophthalmology practice in Jacksonville Beach, Fla., to its network. The integrated eye care platform partnered with Schneider Eye & Wellness Center, which is led by Timothy Schneider, MD, according to a June…
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has vetoed a piece of legislation that would allow optometrists in the state to perform laser eye surgeries, according to an April 11 report from radio station KUNM. The move was supported by the…
The highest-paid ophthalmologist in Tampa, Fla., earns $688,800 per year, according to Medscape’s salary reporter tool, which is much higher than the mean annual wage of $301,500 ophthalmologists make according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Here is what the…
Rhode Island ophthalmologist Joseph Dowling Jr., MD, died May 12 at 98, according to an obituary posted in The Providence Journal. Dr. Dowling attended Tufts University Medical School in Boston and Brown University in Providence, R.I., where he eventually went…
Hickory, N.C.-based Graystone Eye has signed a prime vendor agreement with Medline. Through the agreement, Graystone’s surgery center and physician offices will have access to Medline’s portfolio, supply chain workflows and analytics platforms, according to a May 16 news release.…