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A biomimetic cornea that combines stem cell technology and 3-D printing may be the future of corneal transplantation.

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. ― At the OCTANe Ophthalmology Technology Summit, Cynthia A. Matossian, MD, discusses the importance of data analytics in a private ophthalmology practice to help improve the bottom line of the clinic.

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. ― At the OCTANe Ophthalmology Technology Summit, John A. Hovanesian, MD, discusses a panel he moderated here discussing the role of big data, how much is being accumulated by industry and how physicians will be able to use that data to improve patient outcomes.

In eyes with less severe diabetic retinopathy, ultra-widefield fluorescein angiography identifies the more severe form earlier and allows for identification of nonproliferation not readily evident on ultra widefield color images, according to researchers at the Association for Research and Vision in Ophthalmology annual meeting.

LOS ANGELES ― At the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery meeting here, Brian A. Francis, MD, MS, discusses how in-office electrophysiology using pattern electroretinography, helps diagnose glaucoma and track glaucomatous progression by examining retinal ganglion cells.

For several years both ASCRS and AAO have been preceded by the Ophthalmology Innovation Summit, the brainchild of Emmett Cunningham. What was once a cozy gathering of the really cool kids, the eye docs who started or led new companies and the Yeti who funded them, OIS is now the premier new tech meeting in eye care. Even a country eye doc who spends his non-surgery days treating dry eye can get a seat and listen in.

A simple, wearable sensor system engineered by IROC Science in Zurich, Switzerland, provides real-life measurable data on patients’ use of vision and objective criteria to select IOLs, inlays and progressive spectacles.

Thermal pulsation treatment for meibomian gland dysfunction patients who were positive for novel biomarkers of Sjögren’s syndrome showed improvement in the signs and symptoms of dry eye, according to researchers in Clinical Ophthalmology.

BALTIMORE — A machine learning algorithm that predicts individual drusen regression using OCT-based biomarkers may predict when early or intermediate age-related macular degeneration will progress into severe AMD, according to a pilot study presented here at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology annual meeting.