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Running your eyecare practice like the small business that it is can be challenging without having any business, management, or entrepreneurial training. While you yourself can't be an expert at everything, having a general understanding of fundamental business functions will help your business thrive. In this list of online certifications, we've got a little something for everyone whether you want to be more educated on accounting basics, human resource management, or social media marketing. Let's take a look.

Optimizing your patient schedule is a challenging undertaking. In addition to managing an optimized patient schedule, you also have to manage your employee’s time by creating an employee schedule to keep your optometric practice running efficiently. Unfortunately, the complexity of creating an employee schedule intensifies as you hire more employees and add more locations; making it difficult to manage schedules on a spreadsheet.

Overtime, things start to slow down, break, or don’t function as efficiently as they once did. Running an optometric practice is no different. The tools and processes once believed to have been an industry-recognized best practice can’t keep up to meet the evolving demands of patient needs. Using outdated and broken processes in your optometric practice is disrupting your ability to move patients through you practice efficiently.

Performance issues in an optometric practice can jeopardize business, employee morale, and patient care. Whether you’re missing industry benchmarks or are falling behind on your practice goals, addressing performance issues early can help you recover to meet your goals.

For your optometric practice success, it’s essential that you maintain a steady stream of patients scheduling appointments and purchasing from your frame boards. However, many factors drive your existing patients from your optometric practice, increasing your patient churn rate. This post identifies three reasons patients leave your optometric practice.