Technology News

Orbis International has unveiled the third-generation Flying Eye Hospital, the MD-10, at Los Angeles International Airport.

MILAN — Long-term experience with light technologies shows that they are effective in treating meibomian gland dysfunction and dry eye disease.

MILAN — Mobile and wearable technologies and their role in the doctor-patient relationship were the topic of this year’s Strampelli Medal Lecture, awarded to Lucio Buratto, MD, during the OSN Italy meeting.

In my last post, I wrote about a website with clinical guidelines that we built for our local department. In this post, I am going to show you how to get started building your own.

NEW ORLEANS — Physicians need to define their online reputation to better connect with their patients, Kevin Pho, MD, told colleagues here at the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery meeting.

NEW ORLEANS — Smart technology is finding its way into the ophthalmology space, with potential to help patients comply with their medication regimens, according to a speaker here.

NEW ORLEANS — Reliance Medical Products and Haag-Streit USA announced the launch of the I-OPS In-Office Procedure System at the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery meeting here.

SEATTLE — The Zeiss PLEX Elite 9000, a novel swept-source optical coherence tomography platform, has received CE mark approval in the European Union, Carl Zeiss Meditec announced in a press release.

The Belin ABCD keratoconus staging capability is now available for the Pentacam, Oculus announced in a press release.

Sesyn.no is a nonprofit Norwegian ophthalmology website made by Dr. Atle Einar Østern and myself. It is used by more than a hundred ophthalmologists in Norway and has an average of 1,400 visits per month. Today, it is one of the most widely used online resources for ophthalmologists in the country. However, it has not always been this way, and in this blog, I would like to tell our story of launching it and maybe even inspire you if you have a similar project in mind.