VSP Global Innovation Center

According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, cultural competency training improves health care professionals’ knowledge, understanding, and skills for treating patients from culturally and socio-economically diverse backgrounds. In 2023, the VSP Global Innovation Center partnered with HUED, a learning and development startup focused on health equity, to offer their customized, interactive training to a select provider audience. Of the 1,000 optometrists who participated in the pilot, 98 percent said they gained valuable insights on how to better interact with patients and there was a 99 percent increase in providers that said they can now ‘implement and articulate’ the strategies needed to help close the health equity gap. Today, we’re thrilled to reveal that, based on the feedback from providers in the pilot, the customized HUED training is now being rolled out to the entire VSP Vision network. Optometrists that complete the training will receive a continuing education credit (CE), council on optometric practitioner education (COPE) accreditation, and placement on the HUED Directory of Increased Visibility as a Culturally Competent and Humbled Provider. For more information about VSP Vision’s new Cultural Competency and Humility training for VSP network doctors, check out the official announcement here: https://lnkd.in/eBh5XKGF Kimberly N. Wilson, JD #culturalcompetency #visioninnovation #healthequity #VSPVision #optometry

Chronic vision conditions are on the rise. In fact, more than eight million Americans reported a vision disability—a 28 percent increase since 2010—and experts anticipate that common eye diseases, like #glaucoma, will be twice as high in 2050 compared to 2010. An increased need for #visioncare will also mean an increased demand for a better patient experience. Is your start-up currently working on a solution? If so, we want to hear it! Apply to the #VSPVisionInnovationChallenge, a global competition co-hosted by the VSP Global Innovation Center and MATTER, now for a chance to win up to $10,000! For more information and to apply, please visit https://lnkd.in/eQ2FfF8z. #visioninnovation #innovation #VSP #visioncare

If you know a startup that fits the bill for our #VSPVisionInnovationChallenge, encourage them to apply! #vision #visioncare #visioninnovation

Congrats to RetiSpec! We had CEO and Founder Eliav Shaked 🇮🇱 join us for a panel at #SXSW2024 to discuss the key vision trends transforming #healthcare and how #AI is elevating the role of the eye in the future of diagnostics. Exciting to see their investment from and partnership with Topcon Healthcare. #visioninnovation

Did you know that a comprehensive eye exam offers a patient more than just a diagnosis of their eye health? In fact, the eye is a non-invasive window into full-body health, providing valuable insights on more than 270 systemic and chronic diseases, such as heart disease, diabetes, and neurological diseases, like Alzheimer’s. This is just one reason why the VSP Global Innovation Center and MATTER have launched the #VSPVisionInnovationChallenge, a global competition that seeks to explore solutions to enhance the patient experience in eye care. To learn more and apply, visit: https://lnkd.in/eQ2FfF8z #visioninnovation #eyecare #visioncare

This is a great preview of three of the 10 vision trends featured in our "Future Eye" companion piece! #visioninnovation #visioncare #vision

  🚨ICYMI: The VSP Global Innovation Center took the stage at #SXSW2024 to share how technology is revolutionizing #healthcare and sparking new developments around vision care.       👁️This year’s “Future Eye” panel revealed 10 trends in vision innovation shaping the future of healthcare. Find them here: https://lnkd.in/eWGq8YKq     🎤A big thanks to all our awesome panelists   Ruth Yomtoubian, Eliav Shaked 🇮🇱, Christen Yaffe and Debbie Millman for sharing their perspectives on the forces affecting vision care, including technologies ranging from augmented and mixed reality to AI-enabled diagnostics, and how these are shaping the future.     📋Read more here to get the full festival rundown, including our #GenAI fireside chat and Healthcare Happy Hour at the Capital Factory House: https://lnkd.in/epAmjJ2U     #AI #Innovation #FutureOfEyeCare #visioninnovation 

As the inevitable need for vision care accelerates, so too does the demand from patients for improved technology, interactions, and experiences within the healthcare system. That is why the VSP Global Innovation Center and MATTER are calling on innovators to submit their solutions to the first annual VSP Vision Innovation Challenge, a global competition focused on enhancing the #eyecare patient experience. Is your startup developing a solution that seeks to empower patients, improve access, or elevate care in the vision care space? Then, this challenge is for you! Five applicants will be selected to advance their solutions with key industry stakeholders and pitch their innovations for the chance to win up to $10,000. For more information and to apply, please visit https://lnkd.in/eKBtEXQC #visioninnovation #innovation #VSP #visioncare

As uncorrected #myopia is the leading cause of blindness worldwide, there is an increased demand for innovations and technologies that can help prevent or manage the onset of myopia. GoCheck Kids, for example, is the first iPhone app registered with the FDA to screen young children for correctable vision impairment and detect risk factors for myopia. For more on the space race to solve the myopia epidemic and nine other vision trends that are transforming healthcare, check out the VSP Global Innovation Center’s “Future Eye” supplement. https://lnkd.in/eWGq8YKq  #VSP #visioninnovation #innovation 

Learn about how companies are embracing #visioninnovation in the emerging assistive design space by checking out the @VSP Global Innovation Center’s “Emerging Technology for Accessibility” guide. #emergingtechnology #innovation #universalvalue #inclusivedesign #VSP