Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 852 - BOARD OF OPTOMETRY › Division 1 - PROCEDURAL RULES › Section 852-001-0002 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
As used in this division:
(1) "Active licensee" means an active or
			 telehealth licensee.
(2)
			 "Appurtenances" means an accessory or auxiliary device to ophthalmic
			 frames.
(3) "Bandage contact lens"
			 means a continuous-wear soft contact lens used as a therapeutic
			 bandage.
(4) "Base of operations"
			 is the practice location from which the optometric physician utilizes a mobile
			 facility or a portable unit.
(5)
			 "Board" means the Oregon Board of Optometry.
(6) "Contact lens" means a lens designed to
			 fit over the cornea of the eye.
(7)
			 "Distant site" is the location of the provider of health care services outside
			 of Oregon.
(8) "Firm" means an
			 individual or firm technically and financially qualified to perform certain
			 types of work classified as personal services.
(9) Initial prescription is a prescription
			 for spectacles or contact lenses issued within the past 5 years.
(10) "Lapsed" means license is no longer
			 valid because of failure to renew in a timely manner.
(11) "Lenses" means pieces of glass or other
			 transparent substances that have two opposite surfaces that are used singly or
			 in combination to aid the human eye in focusing rays of light. These devices
			 are not "contact lenses," which are designed to fit directly on the surface of
			 the eye (cornea).
(12) "Mobile
			 facility" is a vehicle that is equipped to render optometric services where an
			 optometric physician examines or treats patients inside the vehicle.
(13) "Online platform" means any group of
			 technologies that are used for applications, processes or technologies to
			 deliver telehealth optometry care.
(14) "Ophthalmic contact lens" means a
			 contact lens with or without refractive power, including a plano lens or a
			 cosmetic lens.
(15) "Optometric
			 physician" means a person who is licensed to practice optometry in the state of
			 Oregon, and is synonymous with "doctor of optometry" and
			 "optometrist."
(16) "Originating
			 site" is the location in Oregon of the health care patient or
			 consumer.
(17) "Patient" means a
			 person in Oregon who receives optometric attention, care, or treatment by an
			 optometric physician or an assistant under the direct supervision of an
			 optometrist. For telehealth the patient must be at least 18 years of
			 age.
(18) "Portable unit" means
			 optometric equipment the optometric physician transports to a fixed location
			 (e.g., nursing home, assisted living facility, private residence) to render
			 services to the patient.
(19)
			 "Practice location" is a physical site or mobile facility where an optometric
			 physician provides services.
(20)
			 "Prescription" means the written prescription, which an optometric physician
			 must immediately release to the patient at the time the doctor would provide
			 spectacles or contact lenses without additional examination.
(21) "Spectacles" means ophthalmic frames and
			 lenses.
(22) "Telehealth" is the
			 electronic delivery of optometry care across state lines that complies with the
			 requirements of ORS 683.010 through
			 683.990 and OAR Chapter 853.
			 Telehealth may include phone applications, online systems, remote patient
			 monitoring devices, 2 way audio, visual or other telecommunications or
			 electronic communications.
(23)
			 "Telehealth patient notice" means verbal and written notice given to the
			 patient at the time of care that they are receiving telehealth services.
			 Patients receiving refraction only services must receive that notification as
			 well.
(24) "Telehealth
			 prescription" may only be issued on an initial spectacle or contact lens
			 prescription only after conducting an in-person eye exam prior to delivering
			 telemedicine.
(25) "Therapeutic
			 contact lens" means a contact lens that contains a topical therapeutic
			 pharmaceutical agent listed in Division 80.
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 182 & 683
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS
				  182.466,
				  683.010 &
				  683.335