AI-powered tailored cataract
and RLE patient education
Patient education is burdensome
You are smiling, but you are exausted...
Patient education is necessary but burdensome mix of time consuming and repeating talks about
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Eye anatomy and health
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IOL or alternative options
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Expectations
How often you felt exhausted, repeating same things to different people every day?
Visual needs and lifestyle challenge
Understanding each patient's unique visual needs and lifestyle is challenging. Miscommunication can lead to suboptimal IOL selection and patient dissatisfaction.
Patients often lack clarity about their own needs and are "poor historians," which complicates their interactions with doctors
Doctors are not alwats good listeners, leading to a communication gap that hinders the selection of the most suitable IOLs.
Lens Selling Process?
The communication process is perceived as involving the selling of premium procedures.
Doctors generally dislike the aspect of "selling" and feel uncomfortable promoting specific lens options, even if they believe these options could benefit the patient.
This commercial aspect of medicine can be uncomfortable for physicians who prefer to focus on clinical care rather than salesmanship.
Vast majority of surgeons experience that
The challenges in Ophthalmic practice
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Time-Consuming Patient Education: Surgeons often spend valuable time repeating explanations about cataract surgery and intraocular lens (IOL) options, limiting their ability to focus on clinical tasks and complex cases.
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Inefficient Communication: Understanding each patient's unique visual needs and lifestyle is challenging as patients are poor story tellers. Miscommunication can lead to suboptimal IOL selection and patient dissatisfaction.
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Discomfort with "Selling": Many ophthalmologists feel uneasy promoting premium IOLs, which can hinder patients from accessing advanced technologies that could enhance their quality of life.
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Staff Burden: Educating patients places additional strain on counselors, technicians, and front-desk personnel, affecting overall clinic efficiency.
