Synchronous Engagement Remote Optometry- SERO: Tele-refraction platform to enable optometrists to interact with patients, test vision and prescribe correction remotely

同步参与远程验光 - SERO：远程验光平台，使验光师能够与患者互动、测试视力并远程开具矫正处方

• 批准号: 79544
• 金额: $ 6.11万
• 依托单位: IBISVISION LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Small Business Research Initiative
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=79544
• 关键词: Synchronous; Engagement; Remote; Optometry; SERO

IbisVision was founded by an eye surgeon from Aberdeen and was established in 2013 to complete the development and commercialisation of a suite of computer-based tools backed up by a secure database and cloud-based patient management system. The objective was to make eye testing easier and more intuitive for both the optometrist and the patient by using the familiarity of a computer and simple inputs. We are continuing to improve the system which now includes visual field, colour vision and the Amsler grid test. The corona virus pandemic has highlighted that routine eye tests to prescribe glasses or contact lenses are impossible with social distancing and, at the time of writing are suspended completely. This application is a feasibility study to explore whether eye tests to prescribe corrective lenses can be done remotely with the optometrist in their consulting room and the patient somewhere else, maybe at home, with a laptop. This has been attempted before with mixed success and always by trying to develop automatic self-testing software that by-passes the optometrist and thus their skill and experience is lost in real-time. Our proposal is highly innovative because we want to keep the optometrist and provide a means for them to interact with the patient remotely in real-time using a fully integrated suite of tests to assess the person's vision and prescribe the correct lenses to correct any near- or farsightedness or astigmatism. This is a challenging undertaking but we will work closely with a large optometry chain to look at the feasibility of three possible ways of achieving it. If successful our product will make eye-testing and getting new glasses highly resilient to subsequent lockdown events and help the optometry sector build back better and compete outside their normal physical catchment area without increasing their carbon-footprint (Green Growth). From the patient's perspective they are responding to a real person in real-time who is conducting the test and taking responsibility for the outcome. This personal interaction and surrender of responsibility to the optometrist has mental health benefits over a purely technical interaction with abdication of responsibility for testing and outcome onto the patient themselves. Also, because people will not have to travel to get their eyes tested, we are saving about three journeys per patient which contributes to our aspiration towards a net zero carbon economy.

IBisVision由一位来自阿伯丁的眼科医生创立，成立于2013年，目的是完成一套基于计算机的工具的开发和商业化，并以安全的数据库和基于云的患者管理系统为后盾。其目的是通过使用熟悉的计算机和简单的输入，使验光师和患者的眼睛测试变得更容易和更直观。我们正在继续改进该系统，现在包括视野、色觉和阿姆斯勒栅格测试。冠状病毒的流行突显出，在社交距离的情况下，为配戴眼镜或隐形眼镜而进行的常规眼科测试是不可能的，而且在撰写本文时完全暂停。这项应用是一项可行性研究，旨在探索是否可以远程进行配准矫正镜片的眼科测试，验光师在诊室里，患者在其他地方，可能是在家里，使用笔记本电脑。以前已经尝试过了，但成功与否参差不齐，总是试图开发绕过验光师的自动自我测试软件，因此他们的技能和经验会实时丢失。我们的建议具有很高的创新性，因为我们希望留住验光师，并为他们提供一种远程与患者实时互动的手段，使用一套完全集成的测试来评估患者的视力并开出正确的镜片来矫正任何近视或远视或散光。这是一项具有挑战性的任务，但我们将与一家大型验光连锁店密切合作，研究实现这一目标的三种可能方法的可行性。如果成功，我们的产品将使视力测试和新眼镜对后续的封锁事件具有很强的弹性，并帮助验光部门重建得更好，在不增加碳足迹的情况下，在正常的物理收集区域之外竞争(绿色增长)。从患者的角度来看，他们是在实时回应进行测试并对结果负责的真人。这种个人互动和将责任移交给验光师，比起纯粹的技术互动，放弃了对患者自己的测试和结果的责任，对心理健康有好处。此外，由于人们不必出差去检查眼睛，我们为每个患者节省了大约三次旅行，这有助于我们实现净零碳经济的愿望。