Controlling Costs & Improving Effectiveness
The AOA's Health Policy Institute (HPI) provides information on how doctors of optometry and the public can work to control eye care costs, and increase effectiveness of examinations and treatment.
Advancing Patient Care through POCT and CLIA
October 2021
Extolled as a revolution in health care, point-of-care testing (POCT) and CLIA are changing the face of clinical operations, providing an opportunity to improve patient care services by offering test results on a real-time basis.
April 2021
In the U.S., one in every four children have vision disorders that require diagnosis and treatment by an eye doctor, yet most children with vision disorders never see an eye doctor for diagnosis and treatment.
Vision and Eye Health Assurance and Protection in the Workplace
February 2020
Eye injuries and suboptimal eye and vision health in the workplace are very common. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) reports that every day about 2,000 U.S. workers sustain job-related eye injuries that require medical treatment.
Most Eye Emergency Department Visits Can Be Treated in Optometry Clinics
December 2019
Research determined that the majority of eye-related conditions reported in the emergency department may be treatable in an outpatient optometry office or clinic, resulting in lower eye expenditures.
Disinfection of Multi-Patient Contact Lenses in the Clinical Setting
October 2018
The safe wearing of contact lenses and care to help prevent against infection have many parameters, this policy paper will focus on minimizing infection of multi-patient contact lenses used in the clinical setting.
Optometry’s medical eye care opportunity a boon for patients, coordinated care
‘Eyeconomist’ data shows optometry’s market opportunities ‘never better’ with rapidly increasing demand for medical eye care services underscoring the profession’s role in primary eye health and vision care.
New technology for the advanced AMD patient
The implantable miniature telescope is one option to improve vision.
As law evolves, Board of Trustees updates AOA Antitrust Compliance Policy
Violators of antitrust laws are potentially subject to criminal and civil penalties, as well as “immediate dismissal” from their position or relationship with the AOA, even if they were unaware their actions were not legal.