La empresa navarra Davalorha desarrollado un Evaluador de la Visión Automatizado (EVA) capaz de medir hasta 75 parámetros clínicos de la visión en apenas 5 minutos mientras el paciente juega a un videojuego en 3D real.
An Israeli startup is making glasses with lenses that can automatically adjust their optical power in real time, which may be a boon to people with age-related trouble focusing on nearby objects and could also be helpful for making virtual reality less nauseating.
Hundreds of entrepreneurs, company representatives, doctors, and medical industry executives gathered on Thursday to hear more about what Israel is doing in the realm of mobile and digital health. And many industry experts paid special attention to the start-ups that, they said, are making Israel a world-wide hub for mobile health tech.
“Israel’s enormous contributions to the medical technology industry have not gone unnoticed,” said Dr. Ashish Atreja, Chief Medical Technology Innovation and Engagement Office at Mount Sinai Hospital of New York. “We are excited to see new developments for the medical community at the mHealth conference and are looking forward to building relationships in Israel.”
Commercializing a new tool to bring the basic eye exam into the palm of a doctor’s hand could save the eyesight of nearly 1 billion people worldwide.
That’s the goal that Zhou Yaopeng and Marc Albanese, two former photonics researchers who met at Boston University nearly a decade ago, have set for themselves and for their two-year-old startup, Smart Vision Labs.
