This week’s healthcare data breach roundup includes additions to the Eye Care Leader’s incident and is led by an ongoing cyberattack at Jack Hughston Memorial Hospital in Georgia.
Cutting-edge cataract surgery has plenty of patients ditching their eyeglasses
Cutting-edge cataract surgery has plenty of patients ditching their eyeglasses By Jim Mendoza | December 11, 2020 at 5:04 PM HST - Updated December 11 at 5:04 PM
HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - Carole Massie remembers how frustrating it was trying to focus her eyes on objects both near and far.
“I could see distance better, but I couldn’t see my cellphone, even with the largest print,” she said.
That changed when she had a procedure called Refractive Lens Exchange. Aloha Laser Vision’s Dr. Alan Faulkner calls it a cutting-edge eye surgery.
“It’s really the lens technology that has been in Europe and hasn’t been here that is now here that has, in my mind, driven this to the next level,” he said.