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US-based startup EyeNetra has developed a
device, the Netra-G adaptor which, when snapped on to your smartphone,
can assess your vision without the need to go through a professional
practitioner.
Could the ophthalmic optician’s job soon be obsolete? This is what the Massachusetts-based startup EyeNetra
seems to be working towards. The company has developed a number of
prototypes with the aim of enabling any and every person to measure
his/her own vision. The stakes are high: the Netra-G could shake up a
market which is worth €56 billion worldwide. All you have to do is to
snap the device on to your smartphone and it does the same job as the
autorefractors which are at present in use in ophthalmology. This
equipment currently represents a very large investment both for medical
practitioners and for the health sector in general.
Cutting down on consultations?
The device works in the following way. The user places
his/her eye in a viewfinder and spins a dial to align the lines which
appear on the screen of his/her smartphone. The software then analyses
the user’s vision on the basis of the alignment deviations which it
detects. Once launched in the United States, the startup could give the
40,000 ophthalmologists practising there some cause to worry that the
number of consultations for which they are paid will fall noticeably.
Explains Vitor Pamplona,
co-founder and CTO of EyeNetra, who is a trained programmer: “We’re
changing medicine by providing the user with the right to measure
themselves,” adding: “We see doctors as more of a coach.” Such a
development would certainly help to reduce the cost of doctors’ fees,
which represent around 20% of total US health costs overall, and account
for close to 3% of US GDP.
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