Optician news in brief

Safilo Group and Fossil Group have renewed their licensing agreement for the design, manufacturing and distribution of Fossil branded optical frames. The companies also announced the addition of sunglasses to the deal, which now runs until December 2018 and extends to global distribution instead of just the US and Canada.

Plans to implement an eye disease patient database in the US have been unveiled by the American Academy of Ophthalmology. It is hoped that the IRIS Registry initiative will enable ophthalmologists across the country to review and analyse their own care and compare it to benchmarks. The Academy estimated that the register would have 20 million patient records within two years.