POSITION STATEMENT Shared Care In many circumstances, patient care can be made more accessible and cost effective by practitioners working co-operatively in either formal or informal arrangements. These arrangements are

Source URL: www.optometry.org.au

• Health
• Healthcare in Ghana
• Medicine
• Optometry
• Optometrists Association Australia

POSITION STATEMENT Rural Optometry Background In rural and regional Australia, the scope of practice for optometrists is generally very wide and often provided under challenging and at times stressful circumstances. Rur

Source URL: www.optometry.org.au

• Rural health
• Optometrists Association Australia
• Medicare
• Allied health professions
• Health care provider
• Eye care professionals
• Ghana Optometric Association
• Medicine
• Health
• Optometry

POSITION STATEMENT eHealth Background The provision of health services, including optometry, is information intensive. Optometrists rely on the accuracy and currency of information on a daily basis to make clinical deci

Source URL: www.optometry.org.au

• Telehealth
• Medical informatics
• EHealth
• Telemedicine
• Electronic health record
• Optometry
• European Health Telematics Association
• EHealth Global Technologies
• Health
• Health informatics
• Medicine

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY Optometrists (Amendment) Ordinance 1986 No. 51 of 1986 I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the foll

Source URL: www.legislation.act.gov.au

PRACTICE NOTE Changing billing practices Optometrists should carefully consider and develop their own billing practices that sustainably support the delivery of clinical services, with consideration of their patient demo

Source URL: www.optometry.org.au

• Bulk billing
• Medicare
• Optometry
• Practice management software
• Medical billing
• Balance billing
• Healthcare in Australia
• Health
• Medicine

INFORMATION FOR OPTOMETRISTS ASSESSING FITNESS TO DRIVE This information has been developed by Optometry Victoria to assist Victorian optometrists who may be conducting driving vision assessments for commercial and priva

Source URL: www.optometrists.asn.au

• Optics
• Optometry
• Visual perception
• Hemianopsia
• Scotoma
• Visual acuity
• Perimetry
• Visual field
• Medicine
• Ophthalmology
• Vision

Tim  Fricke  –  Cradle  Mountain  Wilderness  Weekend  Workshops,  21-­‐23  March  2014   Exciting times – new knowledge —  Example to be covered in Session 7 – amblyopia

Source URL: www.optometrists.asn.au

• Optometry
• Aniseikonia
• Vision therapy
• Amblyopia
• Pediatric ophthalmology
• Anisometropia
• Strabismus
• Orthoptics
• Medicine
• Health
• Ophthalmology

MEDIA RELEASE Sixty per cent of ‘problem learners’ suffer poor vision Sixty per cent of children who are ‘problem learners’ have been found to suffer from undetected vision problems, warns optomet

Source URL: www.optometrists.asn.au

• Mind
• Eye examination
• Visual perception
• Medicine
• Optometry
• Vision

POSITION STATEMENT Primary Health Care and Optometry Optometrists Association Australia has adopted the World Health Organisation Declaration of Alma-Ata definition of primary health care: “It is the first level of co

Source URL: www.optometry.org.au

• Healthcare
• Medicare
• Health care system
• Optometrists Association Australia
• Health care
• Optometry in Singapore
• Eye care professionals
• Health
• Medicine
• Optometry

Application for New Membership[removed]To join Optometry Western Australia please complete this form. All information should be written in CAPITAL LETTERS and mark all appropriate boxes with a cross (X). Once the decl

Source URL: www.optometrists.asn.au

• Health
• Behavioral optometry
• Email
• Australian College of Optometry
• Optometry
• Medicine
• Vision