Refraction time
Digital refraction is sold on minutes. This turns your estimate of the minutes into what they are worth across a year. The estimate is yours to make: time a few refractions before you fill it in, because the number varies more between practices than between instruments.
What the minutes add up to
- Hours saved per week
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- Hours saved per year
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- Additional exams per year
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- Value per year
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How this is calculated
Hours per week = refractions per day × minutes saved × days per week ÷ 60. Hours per year = hours per week × weeks. Additional exams = minutes saved per year ÷ minutes per exam, if you gave one. Value = hours per year × the hourly figure, if you gave one. Saved time only becomes capacity if the schedule is built to use it, which is a scheduling decision and not an instrument feature.
Time saved on paper only matters if it improves the patient and doctor workflow. Talk through the room, the staffing and the refraction volume with me.
Talk through the workflowWhere the minutes come from
On the Marco digital refractors the time goes out of the exam in three places: the pretest data arriving in the refractor instead of being dialled in, the one-hand keyboard replacing the phoropter dials, and showing the patient old and new prescription side by side instead of flipping between them. Which of those applies to your lane depends on what feeds the refractor, which is why the pretest instruments are part of the same conversation.
Talk it through with me
Tell me how your practice handles this now and what you want it to do, and we can work through the options together. You do not need to have settled on a product first.