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State Advocacy Summit amplifies lessons from year of historic scope victories
Advancing Optometry: State Advocacy Summit 2021, Aug. 30-31, is a virtual opportunity for state advocacy volunteers and leaders, and optometry’s advocates, to collaborate on best practices.
Virtual interview tips for employers and applicants
Virtual interviewing has allowed employers to connect to a broader pool of applicants from locations nationwide—get tips for employers and applicants for a stellar virtual interview.
AOA, AFOS ensuring optometry well represented in formation of national practice standards by VA
With the Department of Veterans Affairs decision to modernize its electronic health record (EHR) system and its desire to standardize processes, procedures, data and coding, formation of new practice standards is being proposed for all non-MD/DO specialties—including doctors of optometry.
Testing for certification? Paraoptometric exam handbook, PRC resources necessities
An updated paraoptometric examination candidate handbook is available for reference as staff prepare for their certification exams.
‘Seeing Beyond the Pandemic’ underscores criticality of children’s eye, vision care
An Education Week-hosted webinar, supported by AOA and industry partners, reinforced with parents and teachers the need for regular, pediatric eye care especially given the challenges of digital learning.
AOA advocacy helps shape new U.S. House bill to expand essential eye health and vision coverage for Medicare beneficiaries
The AOA continues to be at the forefront of discussions with lawmakers over the makeup of new legislation that would grant all traditional Medicare beneficiaries a new refraction and materials benefit.
AOA report: Doctors of optometry leaders in fight against myopia’s threat
The newly released Myopia Management Clinical Report covers all things myopia to equip doctors of optometry with resources they need in growth of the eye condition. Report’s release follows AOA’s heightened focus on children’s vision in 2021.
COVID-19, viral illness surge: What you need to know
“Interseasonal viral activity” is up as people relax COVID-19 mask and distancing requirements, the CDC says, while a new pandemic variant proliferates—what doctors should know.
Keeping the 'medicine' in telemedicine
COVID-19 accelerated telemedicine’s years-long sprawl in health care, and now experts ponder whether telemedicine’s emergency expansion can be rolled back—or if it’s solidified its place in the new normal. This raises the question: Where’s the line between technology as a tool for patient care and corporate profit?
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