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INDIANAPOLIS — Effective implementation of AI in optometric practice provides another tool to improve the delivery of care, according to an expert at the Academy 2024 plenary session.

Since its launch in 2020, the Lighthouse Guild’s podcast “On Tech and Vision with Dr. Cal Roberts” has highlighted ways in which technology can improve the lives of people who are blind or have low vision.

Ocumetra, an optometric data analytics and software company, has partnered with Topcon Healthcare to enhance digital health care solutions for myopia management and improve eye care outcomes for children.

LAS VEGAS — Visionix introduced the VX 610 nonmydriatic automated fundus camera to attendees at Vision Expo West.

A deep learning system achieved an accuracy of more than 90% in distinguishing arteritic from nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy using only color fundus images, according to a study published in JAMA Ophthalmology.

CHICAGO — In this Healio Video Perspective from the AAO meeting, Calvin Roberts, MD, program manager at the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, discusses two “moonshot” ophthalmology programs from the organization.

The Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at University of Miami Miller School of Medicine has received $4.7 million from NIH to create imaging techniques that will detect changes in capillary function and help diagnose cerebral small vessel disease.

Eschenbach Optik of America has launched Optaro, an attachable video magnifier designed for use with an iPhone to aid those with vision impairment, the company announced in a press release.

September is Healthy Aging Month, which the National Institute on Aging has celebrated by highlighting scientific innovations that help older adults remain independent as they age.

Since entering the market in 2011 as a treatment for meibomian gland dysfunction, the LipiFlow Thermal Pulsation System has consistently demonstrated its efficacy, according to a 15-year review published in Ophthalmology and Therapy.