British innovation firm Cambridge Consultants has come up with a concept that could make glaucoma monitoring more user-friendly while reducing the cost.
The company said its Viewi technology performed the same visual fields sensitivity testing but at a fraction of the cost – around £20 rather than £20,000 for the clinical device.
A smartphone app reproduces hospital-based static perimetry tests. The device is placed into a light and portable headset, and runs a conventional suprathreshold test in less than five minutes per eye, said the company. The patient presses a button connected to the headset wirelessly via Bluetooth each time they see one of the flashing dots. Results are displayed on the device and can be shared with the patient’s ECP.
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