Introducing RevitalVision

As a leader in advanced techniques for vision improvement
 SKYVISION is a certified provider for:

THE WORLD’S ONLY PROVEN, NON-SURGICAL THERAPY TO IMPROVE VISION

Have you undergone cataract surgery, LASIK surgery or would simply like to reduce your dependency on reading glasses? RevitalVision may be right for you.

Train Your Brain to See Better

RevitalVision is designed to improve the communication between your eyes and your brain to help you see better. The program uses neural training to improve your vision. Just like learning to walk, riding a bicycle and learning to swim have long lasting effects, so does RevitalVision.

About the program:

§       20 training sessions completed at home on a computer

§       Each training session takes 20 minutes on average

§       Customized to your pace and visual ability

§       Professionally monitored by your
RevitalVision™ Personal Vision Specialist

Effectiveness

More than 3,000 customers and clinical trial participants that completed the program experienced improved eyesight and quality of life. Most customers notice results in as little as 10 sessions.These simple patterns, called Gabor patches, are optimally designed to stimulate neurons in the early stages of visual processing. They're called Gabor patches in honor of the Nobel-Prize winning physicist, Dennis Gabor, who provided the mathematical basis for this kind of filtering. Learn more about the technologyBased on science created by Nobel Prize Winners, RevitalVision is supported by more than two decades of scientific and clinical research.

On average, vision improves by two lines on an eye chart after completing RevitalVision. Benefits include:

§       See the medical presentations section for detailed results.

§       Individual results may vary.

§       Reading smaller print on a newspaper, menu, or computer screen

§       Reading better in low light conditions

§       Seeing objects better at night

§       Reducing or eliminating the need for reading glasses.

Safety
Extensively tested by reputable eye doctors and eye institutes in the U.S. and across the globe prior to being released for commercial use, the program is 100% natural and improves vision with:

• No additional surgery
• No glasses
• No drugs
• No known risks, side effects or complications

Learn more
To learn more, visit: www.revitalvision.com

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“Headlights were less glary. Newsprint was crisper. When I sat down with a book before bed, I no longer had to hold the book at arm’s length to decipher words. And, when I went to my doctor for my final post-training exam, I could read the smallest letters on the eye chart: EDFCZP. I had gained a whole line on the eye chart! I’ve never been so happy to see anything in my life.”

Ginny Graves, Author
Vogue Magazine
October 2009

On the Speaking Trail/The Skyvison Business Lab

Dr. White was in Pittsburgh last night speaking on behalf of Inspire Pharmaceuticals. All of the doctors at Skyvision participate in what they have termed "business process research", the evaluation of medicines, medical devices, and treatments in an effort to improve how well they work. As part of this Dr. White has been traveling a little bit over the last two years to talk about what we have all learned at Skyvision.

It turns out that there is actually a "triple sweet spot" where clinical outcomes (how the disease process turns out), patient experience (how it feels to be treated), and the running of a medical practice come together. It's not enough to think about any one of these. In fact, it's really not enough to only think of two of them. In the best of settings it's actually possible to maximize all three at the same time.

What happens when you get all three of these important things working in tune? Well, it's much more than the sum of the three! You create a "virtuous cycle", the opposite of a vicious cycle, where each success builds another success. What you get is something more like a TEN TIMES better everything! A better result with a really nice experience, all in a practice that is running smoothly and efficiently.

We call this part of our practice the Skyvision Business Lab, and we're open!

What's Good For The Goose

Speaking of surgery and the Surgery Center , a funny thing happened to me on the way to the operating room to do premium Lifestyle cataract implant surgery this morning. I was on my way to Berea to the Surgery Center at the crack of dawn when all of a sudden the traffic on Crocker Road came to a full and complete stop. There, 3 cars in front of me, was a goose casually sauntering across the street.

 

What’s wrong with this picture? Well, this wasn’t a “Make Way For Ducklings” thing, this guy was a full-grown goose. No gosling here, this fellow clearly had his pilot’s license. You’ve been here before, haven’t you? Didn’t it strike you as odd, too? A goose is a BIRD for heaven’s sake. Did he forget? Why didn’t he just fly?

 

Anyway, the staff at the Surgery Center was just super this morning and every patient had a great experience. Everything went off as planned. We were flying!

 

Not like that goose...

 

Dr. White

Where Do We Do Our Surgeries?

Although we have a very large, very beautiful main office in Westlake ( see pictures on our website) we don't have enough room to do our surgeries right there. So where does Dr. White do cataract surgery, especially surgery using all of the new Lifestyle implanst? Well, glad you asked!

For more than 15 years Dr. White has been doing lots of his surgeries at a simply fantastic outpatient center called The Surgery Center in Berea. You can find their website here. The Surgery Center has been run since it opened by a woman who is simply the best surgical administrator in America, Barb Draves! Barb was part of the original team who opened the center some 27 years ago, and it has grown into one of the busiest outpatient surgery centers in the whole country.

So why there? Why choose THIS particular outpatient center to use for our most exciting, premium cataract surgeries? In a word it all comes down to excellent patient care. The entire staff at The Surgery Center is fully dedicated to providing not only the very best care possible but also to give our Skyvision patients the best experience possible. Just like in our office at Skyvision Centers!

We couldn't be happier with the care our patients get at The Surgery Center, and we know you will be happy there if you need to have surgery!

Skyvision Centers Social Media 2.0, beta Launch

Wow! Where did the time go? Are we really already through sky vision Center social media 1.0? That went fast!

 Skyvision Centers Social Media program version 2.0 is now in beta. We officially launched today. There is now an active Skyvision Centers Facebook fan page, two Twitter accounts, our well-established website, a YouTube channel, and of course this blog. The interaction/link map is completed and all of the pieces parts are in place.  We anticipate a two-week data during which we will test out all of the links between our "Internet real estate"addresses, as well as to test out our ability to generate interesting and meaningful content.

 What do we hope to accomplish by establishing this program? Everyone at Skyvision Centers believes that we are a truly unique offering in medicine. We are without a doubt the first truly patient-centered eye care business in the United States. We think we not only have a great service to offer, but we also have a great story to tell. We're all very hopeful that these little corners of the Internet will give us that chance.

 So if you live anywhere near Skyvision Centers in Cleveland, Ohio make sure to be on the lookout for our ads, Tweets, and updates on Facebook, YouTube,  and Twitter. Follow us! Become a fan! We can't wait to see you.

The Dr. WhiteBoard!

We've gone video! Yesterday Dr. White filmed the introductory video of his educational series "At the Dr. WhiteBoard"! Everyone in the office at Skyvision loved it. Our Director of Social Media will post it on our Youtube channel later today, and then he will link it here, on our Facebook page, and via Twitter.

Keep an eye out for frequent updates. Help us go "viral"!

Last Day in Boston

Great, very productive meeting! In keeping with the theme of the weekend I'll be meeting with the folks at Inspire this morning for discussions about ocular surface disease.

The last task will be to meet with Dr. Dan Durrie and Brendan Sheil to pick their brains about maximizing our ability to implement the RevitalVision program at Skyvision Centers. It's really hard for me to over-state how revolutionary I think this program is, and what a boon it will be to patients as varied as the 70 year old hoping to keep her driver's license and the 17 year old hoping to go pro in baseball. RevitalVision is simply the best example of the interaction of real, hard, complex science and its application in the improvement of people's lives

Then it's off to visit Gram and Gramp in Rhode Island!

Dr. White.

Playing Hookie in Beantown

I just got back to my hotel after about 7 hours of playing "hookie" from the ASCRS convention (all work and no play, and all). I checked out figuratively at about 3 this afternoon and got in a killer Crossfit workout in the Hotel gym. The kid working out next to me said it all: "Man...that's some unbelievable work-out  Dude!" Nothing like Crossfit to cleary your mind.

I went to college in Massachusetts and there are a bunch of my classmates here in Boston. My good friend Chuck rounded up his wife Sherrie and their partners Hugh and Katie for dinner at Mistral. What a place! Hugh and Chuck lived with me in the same freshman dorm at Williams College. Lots of laughs as we remembered whaty knuckleheads we were in college and shortly after. Every now and again it's good to duck our and escape  the business world. I'm refreshed...ready and raring to go tomorrow!

Thanks to Chuck for a great walk down memory lane.

Dr. White

All About The Ocular Surface

Back to the front of the eye this year at ASCRS. Several of the biggest companies in the eye care world are ready to introduce new medicines to help make the ocular suface more healthy, to make patients more comfortable and see better.

Our tears are actually a complex mixture, an emulsion (kind of like well-shaken Italian salad dressing!) made up of salt water (aqueous), oil (lipid or meibum) and mucin. We already have really good anti-inflammatory medicines for dry eye like Lotemax, and excellent medicines for the improved production and health of the aqueous layer like Restasis. A newer development is the use of the antiobiotic Azasite to make the lipid portion of our tears work better.

The hole in our protfolio of treatments is something to work on the mucin in our tears. At present we do not have anything, either with or without a prescription, to help this part of our tears. It looks like one of the biggerst  companies will come out with an over-the-counter eyedrop that will specifically address this area. Stay tuned here, on our Facebook page, and on Twitter for news about this very exciting development!

Dr. White

Day Two At ASCRS

It's funny how you never really know what these big conventions will bring. It's been all about Dry Eye and the ocular surface thus far. Today's breakfast with some of the executives at Bausch & Lomb sets up to be more of the same. In fact, Drs. Schlegel, Kaye and I buitl Skyvision around the dry eye patient.

I'm hoping to learn more about Wavefront contact lenses and spectacle lenses today. The technology just seems like such a slam dunk. Imagine, you're a young Tennis player and we can make you see BETTER than 20/20 with super-contacts. And then if we add the power of RevitalVision to the mix? Watch out.

Dr. White

Great Day In Boston

What a great day! I had a chance to spend time with senior execs from Allergan, Inspire, Bausch & Lomb, RevitalVision, and Eyemaginations. There is some seriously cool stuff just about to pop all over the eye care world. It's a great time to be an opthalmologist.

Skyvision Centers has a subsidary that is called the Skyvision Business Lab. In the Business Lab we take a very good product and try to make it better. It looks like we're going to have a couple of very interesting projects presented to us over the next couple of days.

Eye care is going to be in the center of every "bullseye" for healthcare  because of our aging populaition. I'm happy to report that the eyecare world is healthy, ready to take on the challenge of our aging populoation.

Dr. White

The Convention Begins

Sunny Satruday morning here in Boston!  The Convention Center is 3 minutes from my hotel, the Seaport. Thanks again to my friend Brendan Sheil from RevitalVision for introducing me to his travel agent!

I've got a busy day ahead of me. It's always a little nervewracking getting to a new Convention Center and signing in. Where is the front door? Did I remember my ID? Funny, I've been doing this for the better part of 20 years and there are still little butterflies as I walk over for day one. Thankfully I discovered that the location of my Sunday speaking engagement is right across the street from my hotel. Whew!

Ok...load up the iPod...pack the MiFi...where's that camera?

Dr. White

The Connected Ophthalmologist

We are the original gadget guys, ophthalmologists. Really. We were the first doctors to use microscopes to operate on our patients. We were the first to use lasers in both the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. We've got all KINDS of cool gear that we use in the office every minute of every day. I can hardly wait to see what kind of new stuff is available at ACSRS.

Not only do we love gadgets in our work world but we tend to be real freaks when it comes to  gadgets in our everyday world, too. Heck, one of the requirements I had for accepting a job was a practice provided hand-held cell phone...in 1990! In general eye doctors must have it, and we must have it yesterday. Which is why I'm still laughing at the contents of my carry-on. You see, a significant percentage of opthalmologists are split personalities--we have to have that gadget now, but we can't stand the thought of getting another one if it means parting with one we just bought.

Here's what's in my bag for my trip to Boston: a cell phone with a  QWERTY keyboard (to text with my kids), a digital camera (to take photos for Facebook), the netbook I'm typing on, a mobile WiFi hotspot (so I can type on my netbook), and an iPod Touch (when the net book is too big). Whew! Nuts, huh? Wouldn't it be great if I could just carry one, single gadget to do all of those things? Right...iPhone! Duh, I knew that. 

But then I'd have to leave the Verizon network, and I just got this new phone, and that MiFi thingy is really cool, and...

Off to Beantown!

I'm off to Boston for the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ASCRS) Convention. this on is dedicated solely to the kind of surgeries that I do, surgeries on the front part of the eye. We will learn about new techniques for cataract surgery. Companies in our field will present new products that we can use to give our patients better vision.

Laser surgeons will also be able to see and hear the results of the latest advances in LASIK and other laser refractive procedures. There are several new laser programs and a couple of new ways to make LASIK flaps. I'm going to be picking the brains of some of the smartest LASIK surgeons on the planet including Steve Schallhorn (who developed the Navy's laser program) and Steve Coleman (one of the LASIK pioneers). Can't wait!

I'll keep everyone up to date about my trip and all of the new stuff sure to be announced right here on the Skyvision blog!

Dr. White

Skyvision Now Offers RevitalVision!

THE WORLD’S ONLY PROVEN, NON-SURGICAL THERAPY TO IMPROVE VISION

Have you undergone cataract surgery, LASIK surgery or would simply like to reduce your dependency on reading glasses? RevitalVision may be right for you.

Train Your Brain to See Better

RevitalVision is designed to improve the communication between your eyes and your brain to help you see better. The program uses neural training to improve your vision. Just like learning to walk, riding a bicycle and learning to swim have long lasting effects, so does RevitalVision
.
About the program:
ß 20 training sessions completed at home on a computer
ß Each training session takes 20 minutes on average
ß Customized to your pace and visual ability
ß Professionally monitored by your
RevitalVision™ Personal Vision Specialist

Effectiveness
More than 3,000 customers and clinical trial participants that completed the program experienced improved eyesight and quality of life. Most customers notice results in as little as 10 sessions. Based on science created by Nobel Prize Winners, RevitalVision is supported by more than two decades of scientific and clinical research.
On average, vision improves by two lines on an eye chart after completing RevitalVision. Benefits include:
ß Reading smaller print on a newspaper, menu, or computer screen
ß Reading better in low light conditions
ß Seeing objects better at night
ß Reducing or eliminating the need for reading glasses.

Safety
Extensively tested by reputable eye doctors and eye institutes in the U.S. and across the globe prior to being released for commercial use, the program is 100% natural and improves vision with:
ß No additional surgery
ß No glasses
ß No drugs
ß No known risks, side effects or complications

There's lots more information to come. All of the Skyvision doctors and staff are using the RevitalVision program. We'll report our results RIGHT HERE!!

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Off to Hartford

For more than 3 years the doctors at Skyvision Centers have been providing consulting and speaking services to various companies in eye care. Dr. White in particular spends a couple of days a month traveling and speaking on some of the topics in which Skyvision is a leader in the field. Tonight he will be in Hartford, CT to speak to a group of doctors about treating Dry Eye the Skyvision way.

Since there are so many members of the extended White family living in New England this trip will also give Dr. White a chance to check out first hand all of the weather that has been dumping on his relatives. Rumor has it that he has packed a wetsuit and flippers in his suitcase!