Tips and Tricks – Using Binovi to continue vision therapy during the COVID-19 pandemic
By now we’ve all heard about “flattening the curve” through social distancing and self-isolation in the wake of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic that has been affecting people around the world. Keeping a distance, and avoiding any unnecessary physical contact, is a key factor in limiting the spread of such a contagious illness, and it is precisely these precautions that are leading health practices of all kinds —like optometrists or dentists— to shut their doors and turn away patients, albeit temporarily. This loss of care for patients can set them back weeks or months, and can lead to serious problems for your practice.
With Binovi, however, that doesn’t necessarily need to happen. Care teams can stay up to date on what and how their patients are doing, and can perform some vision therapy remotely without either the patient or their therapist leaving home! Binovi also offers the opportunity to expand your practice’s knowledge base with comprehensive e-learning tools available from home.
Therapy at a distance
Because Binovi is based on your mobile device, as long as you have an internet connection, you can access everything you need on the platform. With Binovi Pro, you still get access to patient records, home therapy assignment, Binovi Academy content, and messaging, while with Binovi Coach, patients can receive updated home therapy plans, perform their home therapy activities, and report their results.
Using Binovi, you can keep patients going with weekly check-ins and home therapy assignment just as you would in the office. Important updates can be given, and progress maintained, with new activities presenting new challenges.
Communicating openly
Consider using video calls, either using Apple’s FaceTime, or video calling options in Facebook Messenger or other services, to keep patients up to date on your practice’s whereabouts and as a substitute for in-office contact. Where possible, patients can even have a family member be the cameraman, providing a first-person view of activities being performed during such therapy sessions, allowing for them to continue therapy from the safety of home.
Expanded Learning
With Binovi Academy built into Binovi Pro, use your time away from the office productively and expand your and your staff’s knowledge base with education modules, available through Binovi Admin. Consider the Sanet Vision Seminar Series, with over 100 hours of video content and commentary, or learn about Primitive Reflexes and how to identify and treat them.These educational tools provide a wealth of information and can be a great way to bring your team together, without having to actually be together! Follow along, swap notes, and discuss concepts being discussed and how to apply them in your practice.
Spring Cleaning
Work together with the members of your team to organize patient records, complete incomplete profiles, and otherwise tidy up your practice’s Binovi accounts and environment. Taking some time now to stay on top of things can uncover things that were missed in the past, and provide insights into how to improve your practice for the future.
This is also a good opportunity to review your practice’s custom activities, create and add photos or video if applicable, or even create new activities, especially if you haven’t already done so!
Safe and Flexible
Ultimately, the goal is to allow both you and your patients to stay safe during the COVID-19 pandemic while still being able to get vision therapy sessions in as normal. This degree of flexibility may take some time to get used to, but ultimately can help improve your patient outcomes and your practice’s health too.
Support
If you have any questions on how to use Binovi remotely, or how to best take advantage of features you may not be familiar with, do not hesitate to get in touch with our Support Team to get up to date information and help either by e-mail or through the live-chat widget on our website and inside Binovi Admin.
