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The Market Leader in OCT & Data Management Joins Forces with AI Expert to Provide Improved Clinical Care
Topcon Healthcare of Oakland, NJ, a leading provider of medical devices and software solutions for the global eye care community, announced today that it will partner with RetInSight GmbH, a developer of retina AI solutions based in Vienna, Austria. The two companies aim to develop a seamless interface between RetInSight’s AI-assisted retinal biomarker applications and Topcon’s market-leading¹ OCT devices and cloud-based data management solution, Harmony.
RetInSight’s novel, proprietary algorithms aim to support clinicians in the detection, quantification, and monitoring of key retinal biomarkers including retinal fluid and geographic atrophy lesions. With this collaboration, Topcon and RetInSight hope to extend retinal fluid detection and monitoring to primary eye care providers, facilitating comanagement of patients. In parallel, the two companies intend to develop and deploy automated, OCT-based screening and monitoring applications of geographic atrophy (GA), the leading cause for severe and irreversible visual loss. The availability of RetInSight’s novel OCT-based biomarker algorithms on Topcon’s solutions further augments the clinical utility and versatility of the workflow efficient Maestro2 Robotic OCT and the Triton Swept Source OCT. The cloud based Harmony data management system is known for its seamless connection to hundreds of ophthalmic devices across multiple practice locations to enable analysis of relevant clinical data in a single, secure platform. Harmony streamlines office workflow, allows for detailed analysis of clinical data, and integrates seamlessly with EMR software and will facilitate the deployment of RetInSight’s AI solutions without compromise of clinical efficiency.
“Combining Topcon’s high quality imaging and data management with RetInSight’s novel AI application will lead to improved clinical decision making and efficient disease management. We are very pleased to add this powerful module to our already robust Harmony clinical data management solution and to our world-leading OCT’s,” said Tobias Kurzke, Director of Product Management for Topcon Healthcare.
“RetInSight´s partnership with Topcon will facilitate access of AI-based solutions to primary eye care providers, elevating the standard of care by enabling early detection and accurate referrals to advanced eye care specialists for timely treatment of the major retinal diseases. RetInSight’s Clinical Decision Support System and Topcon’s global OCT and PACs footprint offers an unprecedented opportunity for co-management of patients with retinal diseases,” summarized Corinna zur Bonsen-Thomas, Chief Executive Officer of RetInSight.
About RetInSight GmbH
RetInSight is a digital health company developing transformational retinal AI solutions to improve patient outcomes, increase clinical efficiency and reduce healthcare costs. They empower eye care providers and professionals, academic institutions, and the eye care industry to reimagine clinical care with their extensive artificial intelligence solutions. RetInSight helps its partners leverage data to provide novel insights in unmet diagnostic needs associated with diseases that manifest in the retina. They have developed a comprehensive library of validated AI-algorithms for retinal biomarkers in systemic and retinal diseases, trained on extensive and continuously growing databases. Bringing together the most advanced technologies in computer science and state-of-the-art clinical expertise as well as medical science, they are set on shaping the future of digital precision medicine.
1. As reported by Market Scope’s 2020 Ophthalmic Diagnostic Equipment Market Report.
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