The OPD can help you offer your patients a night vision assessment to determine the best Rx for driving at night. When we use the OPD, we note that about 50% of our older patients have a shift in their vision from day to night and about 15% to 20% determine the shift is great enough to to warrant purchasing a second pair of glasses.

Having the technicians refract on the EPIC has been a benefit to my practice. There has been a definite WOW factor with our patients that we did not anticipate. Also, It gives the doctors more time with the patient to focus on eye health and completing EMR. And, of course, we are able to see more patients each day with the improved patient flow.

An ophthalmic assistant can complete the OPD-Scan III test within 10 to 15 seconds per eye. The patient is simply required to stare at the light without blinking. There is no pain or discomfort involved, and the results are instantaneous. In our practice, my staff and I incorporate this step into the routine preoperative work-up for every patient. The OPD-scans are networked into our EMR and saved as digital images.

The reason I got the OPD to begin with, we were having a lot of people who we put multi-focal implants in, and most of them were happy but a sizable minority were unhappy. And I learned later that part of that reason is that some of these people who are unhappy had some problems with their eye that we weren't picking up. It might be a large angle kappa, it might be corneal coma, it might be dry eyes. And my original reason for buying the OPD was to help me with those patients. With a very quick OPD scan, I'm getting exactly what their mesopic and photopic pupils are. I can see what the angle kappa is, I know their spherical aberrations, their corneal coma. We have a beautiful scan where I can see their placido rings on the cornea, it gives us an idea of how much dry eye there is. There is a lot more information and you can see it all on one sheet.  It's really helpful. We probably do fewer multi-focals than we used to, but we have happier patients now.