Short Description: Visi is a portable, telemedicine-enabled headset providing both anterior and posterior eye imaging for medical facilities that lack staff with ophthalmologic expertise. It reduces costly transfers and patient wait times, enhances diagnostic accuracy, and integrates smoothly into existing workflows, improving efficiency and care quality.
Lessons Learned: We initially sought to target the lack of eye care in rural emergency departments by addressing inefficient resource allocation, lost profits, and long wait times. Through customer discovery, we learned the core unmet needs are lack of OPH training, transportation barriers, purchasing decisions, and access to high-quality diagnostic imaging, expanding our focus to include urgent care centers.
Names and Affiliation of Team members:
Lama Al-Aswad, Faculty, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Ophthalmology
Rina Nagatani, Clinical Research Coordinator, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Ophthalmology
Almiqdad Saeed, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Ophthalmology
Watch a video of this technology here.