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John Stossel got an eyeglass prescription over the internet. “Bottleneckers” want that banned. Need glasses? Going to an optometrist can be a pain and waste the better part of a day. So a company, Opternative, invented an at-home test....
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Learn more by visiting Consumer Action’s Vision Action Center
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New videos on online prescription renewal and the right to purchase eyewear where you want. As more states across the country are considering anti-consumer restrictions or bans on online prescription renewal services and the use of telehealth in vision care,...
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By Saya Nagori – The General Assembly is again considering protectionist legislation that would restrict emerging telehealth technology for Rhode Island’s contact lens and glasses wearers. House Bill 7608 and its companion Senate Bill 2404 take aim at vision telemedicine...
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By Rob Borkowski – Local optometrists are arguing for “standard of care” regulation of online vision tests for corrective lens prescription renewals, rules branded protectionist by manufacturers, pitting eye doctors’ efforts to preserve patient interaction against software services providing convenient,...