Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are making waves in healthcare, and eye care is no exception! These technologies are helping doctors detect eye conditions earlier, create personalized treatment plans, and even assist in surgeries. It's all about making eye care better for everyone.

Recent reports, including a heart-wrenching story shared by BBC Breakfast, have underscored the critical importance of regular vision checks. The reports featured a tragic case of a gentleman who lost his life in a crash caused by a driver unable to see more than three metres ahead. This serves as a stark reminder of the impact impaired vision can have on road safety

Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of irreversible blindness worldwide. It’s also widely discussed within the eye care community that early detection and regular monitoring are key to managing glaucoma and preserving vision. Thankfully, advancements in technology are playing a pivotal role in improving the detection and management of this condition. Read our blog to find out more.

Meet, Seb, the creative mind behind IbisVision’s stunning design! If you’ve used our products, visited our website or scrolled through our social media pages, you’re likely to have seen his work. Read an interview with Seb all about his time is IbisVision.

The field of optometry is on the cusp of a technological revolution. As we look towards 2025, several key trends are set to reshape the way eye care is delivered, making it more accessible, efficient, and personalized.

The future of healthcare is digital, and telemedicine is leading the charge. As we move closer to 2025, several key trends are posed to revolutionise the way we deliver and receive healthcare.

On November 22nd 2024, our team had the privilege of attending an NHS Research & Innovation event to present and highlight our work with NHS Forth Valley as part of the SBRI initiative.

IbisVision's success is fuelled by a team of talented individuals and one such talen is our Lead Developer, William Silva. Hear more from him about his journey at IbisVision and his work on our online vision testing platforms.

November is National Diabetes Month, a time to raise awareness about this condition that affects millions worldwide. The theme for 2024 emphasizes taking action to prevent diabetes-related health problems.

With clinician-first and self-guided testing, IbisVision has developed innovative technology that combines both eye exams and an online experience. Discover more about our remote eyecare solutions.

IbisVision's technnology helps to address many challenges currently being faced in eyecare. Our products offer flexible and convenient solutions as well as alternatives to online appointments. Read more.

IbisVision was thrilled to be part of the action at Vision Expo West! With a packed schedule and lots of new faces met, we had a blast at our last eyecare show for this year.

The landscape of healthcare is constantly evolving, and the field of optometry is no exception. Discover how IbisVision can help to solve challenges faced by eyecare professionals.

Ever spoken to IbisVision? If the answer is yes, the chances are you'll have spoken with our Head of Product, Mel Berwick. This interview with Mel delves deeper into IbisVision and it's always beneficial to hear from a product expert!

Our Head of US Operations shares her outlook on the future of tele-optometry and more about her experience in the US eyecare sector.

Our COO shares more about his time in the optical sector and his role at IbisVision.

IbisVision was delighted to be invited along to the opening of the first Vision Care for Homeless People clinic in Scotland. Our team went along to Crisis Skylight in Edinburgh for a tour of the new clinic and to speak with the team.

The digital age has transformed how we manage our health and, eyecare is no exception. This blog explores how you, as an eyecare professional, can leverage digital tools to empower your patients and enhance their care experience.

This Myopia Awareness Week, take a look at how IbisVision can support eyecare organizations in myopia management.

IbisVision was thrilled to once again offer our sponsorship to the Optoversity Challenge in aid of Vision Care for Homeless People.

IbisVision, the leading developer of remote eyecare technology, has commenced a collaborative research programme with the University of Central Lancashire to help fine tune its processes for remote refractive eye tests.

World Optometry Week is in full swing and this year we are shining a light on the amazing work of eye care professionals around the world and their dedication to providing accessible eye care for all.

IbisVision, the market leader in remote eyecare technology will launch IBIS Re-Check, a new service that helps patients to check their prescription pre-consultations, at Vision Expo East 2024.

IbisVision, the market leader in remote eyecare technology, plans to use its system to help optical businesses around the world resource more staff amid clinician shortages and increased consumer demand for eyecare.

The 10th anniversary of 100% Optical did not disappoint with a variety of exhibitors, sponsors and speakers on offer.

IbisVision's 2023 Round-Up. What an exciting year it's been for IbisVision. Take a look at some of our key highlights from this year.

Optometry trends for 2024; embracing the future. Get ready for some exciting developments in the eye care sector in 2024.

Vision Expo West 2023 - our best one yet? The latest Vision Expo in Las Vegas was definitely on to remember. Read more.

IbisVision, the Glasgow-based company that's leading the move to remote and over-the-Internet eyecare, has unveiled breakthrough technology, the first of its kind, that allows for optometrists to determine a prescription over the Internet, with hardware that’s a fraction of the cost of traditional eyecare systems.

To support awareness throughout National Eye Health Week (NEHW), we are highlighting some of our work with optometry and healthcare leaders, in particular the NHS as one of the key discussion themes over the next few days. Read more.

IbisVision CEO, Mark Roger, joins Andrew Aldridge on the Deepbridge Discovery Podcast to discuss his background, how IbisVision was founded, how we recently secured significant funding and what the next steps and goals are for our company.

Virtual care solutions being the first stop for appointments can make a huge difference to day-to-day practices in optometry. Remote triage is already being successfully implemented in other healthcare industries and is now trickling out into other sectors where it can and will be extremely effective.

Telemedicine has been growing in popularity for some time with more and more organisations taking it into account when planning new ways of working and interacting. And while it’s a great development and step to take in moving your business forward, it also comes with a lot of hard work and planning in order to integrate it successfully.

The demand for home eye care services is set to surge in the coming years as a result of the UK’s ageing population (aop.org.uk). Technology can massively help to support domiciliary care and access to this is growing in the sector. IbisVision is one such platform that has the tools to do this and help your business.

IbisVision, the Glasgow-based company leading the development of remote ophthalmic technology, raised £4.5 million ($5.6 million) in growth funding as it seeks to open offices across the US and sell its ground-breaking remote eye test platform into the world's richest healthcare markets.

The IbisVision team recently made the trip down to Birmingham where we completed training at Birmingham Children’s Hospital. We worked with and led training for a group of Orthoptists who will be using the IBIS-Connect platform in a comparative evaluation, comparing the assessment of children’s vision remotely versus in-person visits.

Healthy Vision Month comes around every May and was created to stress the importance of our eyes and keeping them healthy. Back in 2003, the National Eye Institute established this month to spread awareness and educate people on maintaining good eye health. Organisations and individuals spend May spreading the word via social media, hosting events, and promoting via their organisation channels and networks.

Since 2020 the number of people with glaucoma worldwide has surpassed 80 million and it is expected to pass 111 million by 2040 (Eyes on Eyecare). To help tackle this issue, new solutions are being developed and brought to market. And, with these new solutions has come technology that is bringing more accurate monitoring as well as aids to predicting disease progression.

The optometry sector isn’t usually what comes to mind when we think about sustainability, but there are a few aspects of the industry where sustainable options can be looked at a little bit closer and action can be taken. In recent years there has been a shift in the views towards a more environmentally friendly approach to eye care and services with a lot of this being about a move to reduce the use of plastic in eyewear.

The hustle and bustle of New York was the perfect place to host Vision Expo East. The liveliness of the streets matched the energy inside the Javits Centre over Expo weekend where professionals came together to see what’s new and upcoming for the eye care sector. Read more about what we got up to.

We are pleased to announce that we will be extending our contract while our platform undergoes a multi-centre 12-month clinical validation in up to 5 sites across Scotland and one site in England in Amblyopia, commencing in April 2023. The aim is to prove IbisVision’s IBIS-Connect platform can increase patient screening capacity and improve overall patient monitoring efficiency.

The IbisVision team had a very busy and successful weekend at 100% Optical where we joined the UK eye sector in discussing and discovering the latest, newest trends and innovations. The main event at the IbisVision stand was our new refraction technology where we received amazing feedback.

The IbisVision team is heading to the city that never sleeps to take on the busy streets, big energy and best of all, the US eye care sector. Vision Expo East is taking place from the 16-19 March and is the complete event for ophthalmic professionals. With a first-class venue in the Javits Center, we’re looking forward to once again experiencing the hustle and bustle of a vibrant event.

Remote patient monitoring extends the reach of caregivers, potentially improving patient outcomes and reducing costs for both the patient and provider. This kind of technology is now often used as a healthcare delivery method to monitor a patient’s health outside of clinical settings but still maintaining a connection with the healthcare provider.

After a short break from our travels, the IbisVision team is going back on the road, and this time we’re travelling to London. 100% Optical is the UK’s largest optical event and is taking place on the 25th-27th of February with professionals from across the country coming together to see what’s new in the sector and discuss the industry’s hottest topics.

Sunday 5th of February saw the first round of the Optoversity Challenge take place. You may have read our previous posts about the challenge where we mentioned that students from all over the UK were coming together to compete; and what a great day was had by all! Taking place online, the students participated with their teams and showed great collaborative skills in achieving their spots on the leader board.

It’s safe to say that patients are the most important thing to any optometry business and eye care professionals. Patients are at the centre of everything in the optical industry; they are who require eye care professionals to treat them, monitor them and speak to about any concerns they have as well as, of course, being the ones who make purchases.

The Optoversity Challenge is a great event with a social effort at its centre. IbisVision is once again supporting this amazing event and the charity it’s in aid of. We recently announced our support of the challenge, and we thought we’d do a deep dive into the event to explain what it is, who’s involved and what it’s all for!

Optoversity 2023 set for an exciting challenge

With technology constantly advancing, it’s no surprise that we have some exciting changes coming our way in the sector. Staying ahead of the curve can be good, as well as staying aware of what’s to come too. This knowledge is vital in having an outlook on exactly where the sector is going so, let’s look at some trends to look out for this year.

This week is Roche’s Digital Innovation Week, and IbisVision have been lucky enough to be selected to appear alongside eight other start-ups to help solve an identified problem in Ophthalmology. Our COO will be in Basel on Thursday 10th November to share more about our business, our technology, and our telemedicine platform.

Brain Tumour Awareness Week started on the 29th of October and is running until the 5th of November. Awareness will be raised this week through several mediums, including social media campaigns, sponsored walks, and various fundraising events. The more that we can shout about the symptoms and signs of a brain tumour, the better; it could be essential in helping others to identify if something may be wrong.

Consumer trends move fast in all industries, and it’s no different in the optometry sector. Keeping up with these trends can be a big task and it can be difficult to navigate exactly how we should be engaging with consumers from month to month. Below, we take a look at a few different ways that you can engage with your patients throughout their journey with you.

For any business with any nous there are two main benefits to attending an exposition such as the amazing Las Vegas Vision Expo West, which we visited in September. There are some businesses that go with the sole aim of talking about their product, of selling, and focusing on their display. We like to think that we go one step further than that, and we give equal, if not more attention, to what else is going on and what others are doing, as well as making connections related to our own products.

Okay, we know that any blog about going to Las Vegas is going to ride on the back of popular memes about this well-known gambling mecca in the middle of Nevada, but if there's one place where you want good eyesight it's got to be this city (c’mon, we’re an eyecare tech company so we had to slip that in as well!

IbisVision, the leading developer of remote ophthalmic technology, will roll-out its new refraction-based eye tests in the US as it seeks to tap into expertise in the world’s largest eyecare market and expand the number of early adopters it works with to help patients access eyecare more easily.

For a proudly Glasgow-based company like IbisVision, we are sometimes asked why we have such a global focus. Surely the aim is to shore up our own domestic UK market first before we try and work elsewhere? Nothing compares to the US when it comes to the size of the market, the various types of clients that we can deal with.

Telemedicine is evolving year on year and adoption is picking up the pace in 2022. Having been taken on by many organisations across the globe, the developments keep on coming in the telemedicine space. Our latest IBIS-Focus instalment takes a look at the latest trends coming out of 2022.

One area identified by the NHS which needed to be looked at urgently was how to check children’s vision remotely, and how would clinicians do this without having to bring children directly into healthcare settings? That’s where IbisVision came in as well as fellow SBRI project participant, Optonet.

We are embarking on our most exciting and ground breaking project yet —  a process to determine how our technology can be used in conjunction with other medical disciplines, and in a broader health service context, to produce outcomes which are far wider than just those purely related to eye care.

IbisVision is a synchronous system. This means that while the eye test is being done by the patient, the eye care professional is present and talking the patient through the test step by step via an interactive webcam feed.

Could we teach Ed Sheeran how to perform? Or Cristiano Ronaldo how to kick a ball? Probably not! But it does seem that in the US, the land of Silicon Valley, Apple and world-beating innovation, we’re showing them a thing or two about ophthalmic technology. Our recent trip to the US was an amazing success!

Our travels over the past few weeks have been very exciting. We’ve been to Miami, New York and most recently the busiest city in the UK, London. We were there to attend one of the UK’s biggest optical shows, 100% Optical, where we teamed up with our partner Birmingham Optical to showcase our IBIS-Connect platform.

For a company like IbisVision, where our product is developed with the input and intelligence of partners and the market, meeting up with the companies who’ll use our platform is one of the most important tasks we can do.

The IbisVision team will be heading to New York this weekend (jetting up from a hectic and hot Miami) to meet the world’s biggest optical players at VisionExpo, a showcase of what’s new, exciting and cutting edge for the optical industry, in one of the world’s most lively cities.

IbisVision, the Glasgow-based company that's revolutionising optometry through its remote eye test technology, is embarking on a £5 million fund raise drive in the US this week led by Florida-based investment company Compiler VC.

This time yesterday we were en route to Miami, nestled in our plane seats likely between some people seeking a bit of winter/early spring sun and some families possibly looking to visit Disneyland and a host of other exciting attractions to be found in the Sunshine State.

Since it’s #NationalSaveYourVisionMonth we’re taking a look at all of the important steps you can take to protect your vision. IbisVision’s technology supports optometrists in making eye tests more widely accessible so that any eye conditions and health concerns can be detected as early as possible

Every year we celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8th. It’s a day of celebration in many countries across the world and is an important time to recognise women for their contributions to their work, families, and movements throughout history.

IbisVision is delighted to once again be sponsoring the Optoversity Challenge in aid of Vision Care for Homeless People. The event which takes place on the 27th of February brings together students from optometry schools across the UK.

We’re often hearing that the world is changing and we’re moving to new ways of living, working and communicating. Here’s some advice, hints and tips on what to look out for and what to ask when selecting your provider.  

SBRI Healthcare announced today the nine winners of Competition 18, Stroke and Technology. The list winners includes, IbisVision.

IbisVision recently featured on The Seven on BBC Scotland, and we're delighted to be able to share this and showcase where IbisVision has got to on our journey. We filmed this exclusive interview in the perfect setting of the Glasgow Science Centre.

2021 saw a lot of talk about telemedicine and its potential uses. We got first looks at how it has been developed and the ways it's being used in different sectors, with a big push for this technology in many healthcare settings.  

Health kiosks are an amazing advancement in medical technology that's helping to make healthcare more accessible. This IbisFocus article is going to look at what health kiosks are, why there’s such a drive for them in India, and what the outlook is for the future.  

We are delighted to be working with NHS Forth Valley to develop new technology which enables healthcare staff to carry out remote eye tests on people at home or in schools.

Telemedicine offers a whole new way of providing care in many healthcare industries. It's already being used across multiple fields to provide virtual appointments to patients and better serve communities. 

The IbisVision team are delighted with our brand new website. As we further develop our product and telemedicine solution, we thought it was time to reflect this growth in our website.

We are delighted to soon be launching IBIS-Connect to our first group of customers in the optical sector. It’s great to finally be sharing our solution with the eye care community and since it will soon be going live.

IbisVision, the groundbreaking Glasgow company whose platform allows opticians to perform remote eye tests with patients in any location, has created a new role of lead developer as it builds world leading software for facial recognition.

Health kiosks are an advancement in medical technology and are allowing healthcare to become more accessible for all. Kiosks are electronic machines that help the public access health screenings quickly and easily. Some are used by hospitals and doctors as simple check-in systems but others are much more advanced. 

Many practitioners and patients are currently opting to choose virtual appointments over face-to-face interactions. This increased demand for telemedicine use has sparked many questions as to what an organisation should be looking for when choosing their provider. 

IbisVision was showcased by Keytree, a Deloitte business on their webinar 'The New Normal.' This webinar is hosted by Steve Ingram and Shaid Latif and discusses a broad range of hot button topics every week.

Telehealth and telemedicine are both terms that are being used more in 2021. As we have learned, the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the development and use of virtual services, many of these being healthcare services.

During the summer we always think about protecting our skin from the sun, but we should also be thinking about protecting our eyes from UV rays as well. Here are some tips from the American Academy of Ophthalmology to help us protect our eyes from sun damage.

With patients becoming accustomed to this level of access, it’s a sure thing that we won’t ever head back to not having virtual care. Before the Covid-19 pandemic, telehealth wasn’t a reality for many and was more of a goal that was in the pipeline for the future. However, the pandemic has brought about major changes in this area and now developments in telehealth are firing ahead. 

Technology companies across the world are stepping up and finding new and innovative ways to ensure that people have easier access to healthcare. The need to create this accessibility has come from a number of reasons.

A wide adoption of digital tools is allowing the optometry industry to progress and better face the challenges that have presented themselves over the past year. Not only this, but technology is helping to improve patient care while reducing costs for the industry too. 

Technology, like IbisVision’s, helps to cut down the amount of equipment that optometrists need to take out to their patient’s homes. At the moment, optometrists often take a number of pieces of equipment with them and having technology available to them that holds a number of tests will make their jobs easier.

This past year has brought many challenges for the optometry profession, and the industry has stepped up and faced these head on. From social distancing to working with suppliers that offer different ways of testing, optometrists are continuing to provide effective eye care to their patients.

Optometry students are gearing up for Out of the Box Optoversity Challenge, when they will test their knowledge against others in the same year group across the UK at the online event: Sunday 21st March. 

IbisVision and Birmingham Optical have come together to ensure that the UK optical industry has access to new and disruptive technology to help better serve patients in a Covid and post Covid world. 

IbisVision is accelerating plans to roll out its platform to UK and US optometrists to help them in their battle to care for patients amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown.

Although tele-optometry is not a new concept, the drive for this to be introduced in the industry has increased exponentially given the events of the past year.