Eyoto
Breaking New Ground in Tele-Optometry

Since COVID-19, tele-optometry has made various strides in innovation and efficacy thanks to the skyrocketing emergence of remote conferencing solutions. Despite the pandemic-driven upswing in telehealth, most eye examinations worldwide still incorporate a traditional and manual approach from an eye care professional (ECP).

Highlighting this is the slit lamp eye examination. While many optometrists utilise advanced technologies to enhance the accuracy of results, the process still requires ECPs to be present in the same room. Since the pandemic, patients’ perception of this care delivery approach has changed as some prefer not to have direct contact with ECPs. This shift in patient behaviour has resulted in skyrocketing demand for a slit-lamp system capable of supporting ophthalmologists to remotely examine their patients and deliver care without compromising any potential clinical diagnosis.

Addressing this need with a first-of its-kind remote digital slit-lamp system is Eyoto.

Headquartered in Birmingham, UK, Eyoto is an optical innovation company that offers a state-of-the-art tele optometry eye examination solution, which is backed by its extensive expertise in image processing, computer vision, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and ophthalmic user interface design.

These components have enabled the company to achieve a milestone in vision care through the world’s first remote slit-lamp system Theia, derived from the Greek Titan Theia, goddess of ‘sight and light.’

Transforming Vision Care with Remote Slit-Lamp Examinations

Theia is a small, remote digital optical imaging system that compliments existing vision care equipment to deliver high-quality eye health examinations with accuracy comparable to in-person eye exams. It offers multiple care delivery opportunities by increasing the provision of conventional ocular health examinations through an efficient, flexible, and remotely accessible slit lamp system. A critical upside to Theia is that it allows optometrists to effectively optimise the system from anywhere, be it a different room within their practice, another city, country, or even continent.



“In the current optical market, Theia brings convenience to the management of labour shortages by enabling an optometrist to cover multiple centres. Theia can also aid ECPs in balancing their schedules across several centres to match optometrists’ day-to-day tasks and deliver timely and efficient vision care,” states Paul Clapton, CEO of Eyoto.

Concerning its features set, Theia has a 4K resolution camera and touch screen with full image and video capturing capabilities. ECPs can examine the captured image in high quality and zoom in on them by using a viewing tool that facilitates a more precise assessment of a patient’s ocular problems, driving timely and accurate diagnosis. At the same time, with its remote control panel and joystick, Theia allows an optometrist to operate each of its elements independently.

ECPs gain complete control over the rotation of the light source and camera, the intensity of the light, as well as the slit height, width, and brightness. These components enable optometrists to deliver convenient, effective, and precise eye care.

Concurrently, the images and videos captured by Theia can be exported to any patient management platform for further assessment by an ECP or shared as part of an enhanced diagnostic process with secondary and specialist care. With Theia, Eyoto leverages its ophthalmic user interface design know-how to ensure the security of all sensitive patient data from undesirable data breaches with full end-to-end data encryption.

Revolutionising Optical Lens Inspection

In addition to Theia, but delivering a solution in a different optical space, Eyoto has developed a ground breaking digital lens imaging and analysis platform for ophthalmic lens inspection called Atlas.

As the name suggests, it is named after the Greek Titan Atlas and was designed to tackle quality control challenges in optical lens production labs worldwide. To deliver its promise, Atlas incorporates highly accurate power mapping and lens surface inspection to identify defects and prescriptive power discrepancies through every production stage.

Atlas comprises two variations of the same technology: Atlas Global (uncut lenses and blanks) and Atlas Duo (fully glazed and mounted spectacles). Both platforms will provide a complete edge-to-edge surface analysis highlighting defects and imperfections whilst grading them in 5mm concentric zones working out from the centre of the lens. In addition, whilst imaging power maps in various formats, Atlas performs a prescriptive power check by comparing the power found in the lens at critical measuring points with the data pulled from the lab management system (LMS) file. This enables optometrists to use the LMS data as a benchmark and then compare any differences with tolerances in play to provide a go/no go for each job.

Sitting behind every Atlas machine is a customer-specific cloud portal. It collects the details of every measurement to produce a live and ongoing dashboard for critical production on QA analysis, with the operator being able to choose any given time frame. QA files can then be shared with customers, enabling them to gain full control over the surface inspection and prescriptive tolerances at any time. With one person capable of operating three Atlas or more, the system has enormous potential to drive cost savings and improved production margins vs traditional QA methodology.

Making Impactful Vision Care More Accessible

With such unmatched competencies, Eyoto has aided several customers in advancing their production quality. One example is a lab experiencing returns and complaints over fitting heights of progressive lenses. With its detailed prescription check and power mapping capability, Atlas helped identify the problem, allowing the lab to react quickly and alter their fitting height recommendations. At the end of the joint investigation, the optical lab significantly improved its recommendation and lens inspection process and minimised instances of product returns from end customers.

The combination of such successes and the unique capabilities of its portfolio makes Eyoto a go-to partner for ophthalmologists and QA personnel seeking to enhance their workflow and care delivery efficiencies. Looking ahead, the company intends to continue taking in customer feedback and ensure that its products are equipped to help ECPs and lens production facilities manage the current and imminent challenges in the vision care space.