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The AI-driven patient journey: how timing, personalization, and better information improve outcomes in modern eye care.

The AI-driven patient journey: how timing, personalization, and better information improve outcomes in modern eye care.

In this week’s Power Hour, Dr. Joseph Allen, Founder of Doctor Eye Health, breaks down how he built one of the largest eye care education platforms on YouTube, from zero experience in 2018 to a global audience today with over 1.3 million subscribers.

Quarterly Metric Review: Exam demand down, price sensitivity up | Q1 insights and what the data is really telling practice owners in 2026, with Dr. Jason Lake and Eugene Shatsman.

Artificial Intelligence in Eye Care: In this episode of Power Hour, host Eugene Shatsman sits down with Dr. Abdullah “Abed” Sarhan, CEO and Co-Founder of RetinaLogik, who has been working in deep learning and AI long before it became widely used.

In this episode of Power Hour, Eugene sits down with Dr. Tommy Lucas (President, VIEW Optometry) and Dr. Mary Kate Walters (CEO, VIEW Optometry), a husband-and-wife team who have built a four-location practice in Central Texas, including three cold starts that didn’t just survive, but ramped quickly.

High-Touch vs High-Volume: In this week’s episode of Power Hour, host Eugene Shatsman sits down with Dr. David Moore, President of Moore Eye Center, and Dr. Julia Zyrina, Founder of Pine Vision Care, two doctors who are both building exceptional practices, but in fundamentally different ways.

Every year at Vision Expo, companies make massive promises about the “future of optometry.”
But as a practice owner, you don’t need more hype; you need solutions that are real, scalable, and useful.
In this special Innovators Edition of the Power Hour recorded live at Vision Expo, Eugene Shatsman sits down with three executives attacking the future of the profession from three completely different angles: surgical business models, patient-centric retail, and all-in-one operational technology.

$4.8M Stolen by a Trusted Employee: Protecting a business means being willing to ask uncomfortable questions, review systems regularly, and accept that even well-run organizations are not immune to risk. That mindset shift (from assuming everything is fine to actively verifying systems) may be one of the most valuable takeaways from the entire conversation.

Owner Burnout and Frustration in Optometry: In this episode of Power Hour, host Eugene Shatsman sits down with Allison Kraemer (VP of Client Services, The Power Practice) & Dr. Brian Spittle (Peer Engagement, The Power Practice) to talk openly about the real version of burnout in private practice; the kind that doesn’t just affect the owner, but quietly spreads through the entire organization.