Simon Jones: A fair crack of the whip

I must doff my imaginary cap to the Easee team and its founder Yves Prevoo. Not only did they have the conviction to present its online refraction technology to the crowds at 100% Optical last weekend, but Prevoo gave a CPD lecture on how it could be used in the future and the research projects the company had been involved with in mainland Europe.

The way online refraction is viewed by some quarters of the optical industry, Prevoo could have been forgiven for thinking they would have been bombarded with rotten fruit.

It was a slick presentation, with the data on the refraction accuracy and guide of how the system had been used in post-op cataract monitoring. It was also the first time someone had made a convincing argument that online remote refraction could be part of a care ecosystem instead of a platform used by internet retailers churning out revalidations of prescriptions.