Accelerating digital eye care to market

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OKKO Health is an eye care digital health company, based in Bristol, and making medical-grade apps that eye specialists can prescribe so that people who live with long-term eye disease can safely monitor their vision between in-person appointments.The current product is for macular degeneration and diabetic eye disease, which are both leading causes of avoidable blindness in the UK and in developed nations.The current lack of ability to self-monitor vision between any hospital or optometrist/optician visits means that sight-threatening changes go unnoticed for weeks or months, by which point treatment is often ineffective.With the help of home-monitoring of vision, patients will be able to identify when problems arise and seek prompt treatment to preserve their vision and keep seeing well into the long term.OKKO's app blends vision science behind simple video games, that the patient 'plays' 3 times weekly, in order to generate data about their eye health, that their eye specialist can also review remotely.This project is about further developing the technology and the systems around it, to ensure that this technology is safe, cost effective and can reach as many people as possible globally in the coming years. In particular, OKKO will upgrade their CE-mark, develop a scalable system that allows the product to be prescribed in different languages by doctors in different countries, and also understand the evidence and benefit-based pricing structure that will allow OKKO to grow as a successful company and be reimbursed by health providers like the NHS and private insurance in international markets.