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Mobile app offers consumers vision screening, doctor finder
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LAS VEGAS – The EyeXam mobile application for potential eye care patients has quickly become the #1 eye care app, with more than 1 million downloads on iPhones across the country, according to its inventor.
Nikki Iravani, OD, founder and chief executive officer of Global EyeVentures said she came up with the idea for the app after “other moms kept complaining that they couldn’t read their smart phones and asked me if they should have an eye exam.”
Iravani’s EyeXam app offers a vision test, a doctor finder, color vision test and Amsler grid, and provides a score. The doctor finder function is GPS-based and works off the user’s current location or an entered zip code, Iravani told Primary Care Optometry News here at Vision Expo West.
All eye care practitioners can be listed in the doctor locator for free, or the listing can be customized for a subscription fee.
“You can build your own screen, and there’s Facebook connectivity from your practice screen,” Iravani said.
Consumers can manage their appointments with the app and receive messages from the doctor’s office. Doctors will have a web-based dashboard that provides a list of everyone who has viewed the app, by email address. Live chat with doctors’ offices and real-time appointment scheduling are also possible.
The app will also be available soon on Androids, Iravani said.