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.
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.
"Vision Screening" Should Be Called "Amblyopia Screening"
September 2017
"Vision screenings" in schools and pediatric well-child visits only check for amblyopia and amblyopia risk factors, which are not reliable in determining the need for a child to be seen for other vision or eye health problems.
AOA MORE, optometry’s data registry, takes yearlong pause
The AOA will use the time to evaluate its collection efforts and create a registry for the future that is most useful to improving eye health and vision care. The AOA launched the registry in 2015.
Who are you? AOA is letting America know
AOA’s public health observance calls out the bait-and-switch of online vision tests with a campaign emphasizing why there is no substitute for in-person eye health care with a doctor of optometry.
Developing a new generation of optometric leaders
In a virtual kick-off, the AOA launches Leadership Institute with 130 doctors of optometry from across the country. A project of the AOA Leadership Development Committee, the Institute is a yearlong program designed to grow and support the next generation of leaders in the profession.