Maximizing Your Profitability Through Real Estate – Jeremy Burroughs, CARR Realty
Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm Pacific
Recommended for Doctors & OwnersYour lease or mortgage payment is likely the 2nd or 3rd highest expense to your practice every year, and you typically only have a handful of opportunities to effect that expense during the course of your entire career. Join us as a real estate expert discusses the common pitfalls and mistakes to avoid that can cost your practice 10’s to 100’s of thousands of dollars, and how maximize your practice profitability through real estate. 

Implementing a Blue Light Practice (COPE PENDING) – Valerie Manso, ABOC
Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm Pacific
​​​​​Recommended for ALL

It’s well known that exposure to blue light is a contributing factor to the development of Macular Degeneration; has a negative impact on our daily vision; and impacts our overall health and wellbeing. Our patients have heard this news and we must respond. This session provides a roadmap of tips to develop and implement a first-class blue light practice. 

Hire Right, Hire Once! – Gale Stoner
Time: 12:15pm – 1:15pm Pacific
Recommended for Owners, Doctors & Managers

Reduce the stress and cost of staff turnover with a powerful tool that will help assist you in selecting the ideal candidate. Implement the DISC Assessment Report System into your hiring process to take the emotion and guesswork out of your decision making. Attendees of this presentation will be asked to take a DISC assessment prior to this presentation. 

Essential Practices for Managing Employee Risks – Sharon Jutila, AmeriBen
Time: 12:15pm – 1:15pm Pacific​​​​​
Recommended for Owners, Doctors & Managers

You are a business owner as well as a medical professional, so you need to take time to make sure you are managing your risks when it comes to the employees who are an integral part of your practice. Join us to learn about best practices and essential policies and procedures to help minimize your risks as an employer. 

Top 10 Employment Issues for 2021 & Beyond – Sharon Jutila, AmeriBen
Time: 1:30pm – 2:30pm Pacific​​​​​
Recommended for Owners, Doctors & Managers

You are a business owners and managers of employees, knowing what issues are facing us in the future is essential for both compliance and culture at our companies. Areas like state paid leave laws, pay equity, marijuana, sexual harassment training and pay equity are all items that are going to be important this year and beyond. Let’s take a look at the top 10 issues that are going to impact your practice now and in the future. 

Maximize Every Patient Encounter (COPE ID: 71617-PM) – Valerie Manso, ABOC
Time: 1:30pm – 2:30pm Pacific​​​​​
Recommended for ALL

Are you maximizing every patient encounter to ensure all patient needs are being met? Physically shopping around has become a thing of the past – complete and comprehensive care is more critical than ever. By the conclusion of this course, we’ll understand the importance of asking questions and making recommendations to patients, capturing every Rx and converting it to an optical sale, reviewing best practices for doctor to optician handoff, and exploring some of the most common multiple pair options. 

Simplifying HIPAA Compliance – Matt DiBlasi, Abyde
Time: 2:45pm – 3:45pm Pacific​​​​​
Recommended for ALL

HIPAA saw record enforcement in 2020, with new legislation changing the HIPAA landscape in 2021. If you haven’t caught up on HIPAA recently, you’re most likely missing key information. We’ll discuss together a high level HIPAA education, real world examples of 2020’s record enforcement trends, new OCR audit data and enforcement focus, and an update on new HIPAA regulations.