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Quality Eye Care: How the Hoskins Center and Spivey Fund are Changing the Future of Ophthalmology

A collaborative effort in 2012 between OMIC and the American Academy of Ophthalmology to establish the Bruce E. Spivey, MD, Fund for Risk Management Studies under the Center for Quality Eye Care, resulted in  major achievements during 2013 that will further our shared goals of risk reduction for ophthalmologists and improved ophthalmic care for patients. Learn more by reading the 2013 Foundation of American Academy of Ophthalmology Annual Report.

Highlights of the Spivey Fund

Susan H. Day, MD, a pediatric ophthalmologist in San Francisco, CA, delivered the first “Bruce E. Spivey, MD, Lecture in Risk Management and Patient Safety,” an annual presentation at the Academy’s annual meeting co-sponsored by OMIC and Academy Foundation’s H. Dunbar Hoskins Jr., MD, Center for Quality Eye Care. The lecture, titled “On the Shoulders of Giants”,  chronicled the history of systems based practice and the tangible improvements in eye health care as a result of major figures in the specialty. The event identified several pearls for ophthalmology, where risk management and patient safety initiatives will be essential in light of the changing landscape of eye medicine.

OMIC revised all of the content of the “ROP Safety Net” in 2013 to reflect changes in the clinical guidelines published in “Screening Examination of Premature Infants for Retinopathy of Prematurity,” the Policy Statement issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Section on Ophthalmology, the American Association of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (AAPOS), and the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO).

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Highlights of the Center of Quality Eye Care

The IRIS™ Registry (Intelligent Research in Sight) is the world’s first comprehensive eye disease clinical registry. The American Academy of Ophthalmology is developing it as part of the profession’s shared goal of continual improvement in the delivery of eye care. Learn more…

In a cohort of US Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 years and older with a diagnosis of cataract, patients who had cataract surgery had lower odds of hip fracture within 1 year after surgery compared with patients who had not undergone cataract surgery. Learn more…

It is not surprising that ophthalmologists may want to try to protect themselves from second-guessing, or even malpractice litigation, by going beyond what is reasonably necessary “just to be safe” or “because the patient requested it.” The better answer in most cases, is to work to improve physician-patient communication. Learn more…