Tag: tech

You might be confirming an iris scan instead. A new collaboration between two companies is aiming to reduced healthcare errors by using iris recognition software. Irisguard is...

A new mobile app called Fluid Intelligence is designed to help answer questions like, does my patient need an injection? It's kind of like phone-a-friend for...

The FDA has approved Alleye, a mobile app indicated for the screening and monitoring of macular degeneration. How does it work? The app tests a patient's central...

What is Watson? "A supercomputer that combines artificial intelligence and sophisticated analytical software for optimal performance as a “question answering” machine." A team of researchers are training...

Google announced they can predict with 70% accuracy whether someone will go on to have a major cardiac event (i.e. stroke, heart attack) in the next...

Is there a computer program that can strengthen my eyes? A few football players for the Miami Dolphins swear by EyeGym. It claims that 10 minutes of...

Potential new MIGS device. The Hydrus Microstent, the world’s first “intracanalicular scaffold” for the treatment of primary open angle glaucoma. Here is an animation of the procedure. (via) An...

Can a computer tell me if I have diabetic retinopathy? US News wrote an article about the potential use of artificial intelligence in detecting diabetic retinopathy. Artificial intelligence...

Looking for a creative way to propose? This guy used a Snellen chart at the airport to propose to his optometrist girlfriend. Warby Parker opens up an...

If my 10 year old is a -2.00 myope now, what will they be in 5 years? No need to dig out your old TI-80...