Investing in advanced technology ensures that we stay at the forefront of ophthalmic advancements, helps our researchers to conduct high-quality studies, trains future leaders, and helps clinicians to provide the best care for our patients.
Tele Retinal Cameras
Placed in community medical offices for early detection of eye disease in underserved areas.
Benefits:
- No dilation of the eye in most cases
- User-self alignment
- Automatic image capture
- High quality image
- Wireless, encrypted upload to be read remotely by our trained OSU ophthalmologists
- Community doctors have better diagnostic information to refer patients on positive retina images
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Clinical and Research Equipment Upgrades
Maintaining and updating equipment is essential to support innovations in eye health. Opportunities exist to purchase ophthalmic equipment.
- Home/portable & non invasive imaging test instrument to assess diabetes or macular degeneration
- Augmented reality goggles to assess visual fields
- State-of-the-art Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) with adaptive optics for clinical and research use
- Confocal microscopes for clinical and research use
- Camera systems on slit lamps for scleral lens patients
iCare HOME2
Glaucoma patients are able to take eye pressure readings at home throughout the day over several weeks to understand their eye pressure fluctuations.
- Eye pressure monitoring outside of office hours
- More data collected helps to optimize effective glaucoma treatment to slow progression
- Lower eye pressure fluctuations will help save eyesight and decrease glaucoma-related blindnes