OAR 852-001-0002: Definitions

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 (10) “Lapsed” means license is no longer valid because of failure to renew in a timely manner.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 intial 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.