Eye Care Optimization in Optometry: Why Now-and How We Can Navigate It Together
In continuing education meetings and association gatherings, we often focus on clinical innovations—diagnostic technologies, new treatments, emerging research. Yet many of us rarely discuss something just as fundamental: how we actually deliver care efficiently as a team. Most optometrists learned clinical flow by observing senior colleagues, adapting what they could, and refining under pressure. But today, the landscape has changed. The demands placed on independent health-care practitioners—particularly optometrists—have accelerated beyond what traditional workflows were designed to handle. The Growing Demands on Independent Optometry Across Canada, independent optometrists are navigating unprecedented pressures: • Rising operating costs—labour, equipment, rent, technology, and supplies…
