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Optometric Business Tracker

EB and GPN Technologies continue to share U.S. practice data, but with a refreshed + simplified focus for a new chapter in pandemic recovery.

Eyecare Business June 1, 2023 Vol 37, Issue June 2023 Page(s): 20

Launched amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the Optometric Business Tracker (OBT) is a collaboration between GPN Technologies and Eyecare Business that reveals sales and exams data from more than 2,400 practice locations across the country.

We continue to reveal crucial takeaways tracking practice exams and patient payments, plus frame, lens, and contact lens sales, but in a more easily digestible, focused way to address practice information needs heading into a new chapter of pandemic recovery.

This month’s OBT “Practice Pearl” focuses on the prevalence of children at risk for myopia.

Here, we share April 2023 practice data reported by GPN on May 8.

Practice Pearl

“Development of myopia is predictable in children, and early intervention to slow the progression is imperative; 6.8% of optometric patients are under age 12 and two-thirds (66%) of them are at risk for developing myopia,” shares GPN. Here, regional differences are shown:

Region % Patients Younger Than Age 12 % of Patients Younger Than Age 12 at Risk for Myopia
Northeast 5.80% 69.70%
West 6.60% 67.40%
South 7.80% 66.30%
Midwest 6.80% 61.70%

Read more at visions.gatewaypn.com/prevalence-of-children-at-risk-for-myopia-in-optometric-practices.

Practice Resources

The GPN Visions business solutions channel (visions.gatewaypn.com) offers timely webinars and resources to ECPs. The open-forum webinars feature some of the industry’s most successful O.D.s, practice management consultants, and business owners. GPN Visions members are invited to attend live webinars, view recorded presentations, download useful tools, and participate in live Q&A sessions with industry pros.

GET MORE INDUSTRY DATA TRACKING

Visit eyecarebusiness.com/optometric-business-tracker monthly as we reveal the real-time data on countrywide practice sales and exams—provided by GPN.

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