Chris Bennett: Keeping pace with technology

Technology is a constant theme in optics but it wasn’t until this week that I really sensed the eye care profession faced a threat from it.

Retail optics is not good at prescribing and promoting the many technical developments the optical industry provides. There, I’ve said it, companies won’t.

New materials, lens designs, indexes, coatings and other technologies are adopted painfully slowly but technology is accelerating. Slow take up has been to the detriment of practices which miss out on the chance to prescribe and sell premium, higher priced, products. It has also been a loss to patients who have not had the chance to try the latest products.