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By: Cat Zakrzewski – A year ago, Simple Contacts Inc. launched an app that allowed people to renew their contact-lens prescription through a short vision exam for just $10. The idea has attracted $10 million in venture capital and has lured...
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By: Mitchell Gunter – Telemedicine – the practice of remotely diagnosing and treating patients through telecommunications – is revolutionizing the healthcare industry and eliminating burdensome costs and inconvenient appointments from customers’ lives in the process. When it comes to ocular telemedicine, this means...
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By: Mike Stenhouse and Drew Johnson – Every Rhode Island family should be able to select the affordable, high-quality health care that’s best for them. But protectionist policies being introduced in the Rhode Island General Assembly would limit those options when...
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By: Drew Armstrong – Greek philosopher Heraclitus once stated: “There is nothing permanent except change.” Unfortunately, there are some people that resist change either because they don’t understand it or because the change doesn’t serve their particular needs. The American Optometric...
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By: Bruce Fein – The American Revolution had its Benedict Arnold. The Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution has its American Optometric Association (AOA) with its war against interstate ocular telemedicine. Thereby hangs a tale. The Constitution was born of protectionist...