The team at Marco is equipped to assist you with the incorporation of the Epic system in your practice. The staff training is excellent and coordinated by a COMT with many years of clinical experience and exceptional teaching skills. Resources are available to address issues of office design and patient flow. The Marco team will partner with you to make the transition a pleasant learning experience. Take advantage of these resources.   

The OPD-Scan III amasses in a single source a multitude of information that is necessary for modern IOL selection and cataract surgery. Instead of moving patients around for testing, we take them to one workstation. From their perspective, it’s one test. The OPD-Scan III not only gathers the essential data more efficiently, but it also gives us data that we didn’t even know were essential until now.

The Marco OPD III is such an invaluable tool that I no longer calculate IOL powers without the info I get from this device. I review the astigmatism pattern and consequently decide if the patient is or is not a candidate for a toric IOL. If there is no perfect symmetry, the patients do not do well with Torics. Of course, there are some exceptions to this rule. I review the angle kappa on every patient.  If the patient has a positive angle Kappa of more than 0.4, then I rule them out for multifocal IOLs.  Since I have implemented this rule, I have happy MTF IOL patients. If the patient has a positive angle Kappa, then I recommend an accommodating IOL. I review the patients corneal Spherical Aberration (SA) and match the IOL's negative asphericity to the patients corneal sphericity. We bring up the OPD III information on a large monitor in the exam room and I point to the above information as I discuss IOL options with each pt. The patients totally get their options or lack thereof and my conversion rate to advanced technology IOLs is very high.

The OPD III has increased my conversion rate for premium IOLs. I use it to help patients visualize conditions such as astigmatism and show them the information I’m using to select the best IOL for them. This boosts their confidence in my choice, and as such, more of them go with the recommended IOL.