SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENABLING CUSTOMERS TO OBTAIN VISION AND EYE HEALTH EXAMINATIONS

摘要

Systems and methods are provided for eye health and vision examinations. A customer diagnostic center is configured to generate customer examination data pertaining to an examination of a customer's eye. The customer diagnostic center provides a user interface for communicating with a customer and ophthalmic equipment for administering tests to the customer. A diagnostic center server is configured to receive the customer examination data from the customer diagnostic center over a network and allow the customer examination data to be accessed by an eye-care practitioner. A practitioner device associated with the eye-care practitioner is configured to receive the customer examination data from the diagnostic center server and display at least a portion of the customer examination data to the eye-care practitioner. Customer evaluation data is generated pertaining to the eye-care practitioner's evaluation of the customer examination data. An eye health report is provided to the customer via the network.

主权项

1. A system for providing eye health or vision examinations, comprising:
a plurality of diagnostic centers, each of the diagnostic centers including ophthalmic equipment comprising a set of instruments that are utilized in administering eye examinations and being coupled to an equipment controller that is configured to receive instructions for controlling the ophthalmic equipment, wherein the diagnostic centers are coupled to a network to enable customers located at the diagnostic centers to obtain eye examinations with assistance from eye-care practitioners located in remote locations; at least one server configured to:
permit the eye-care practitioners to login to a network platform to assist with providing the eye examinations to the customers over the network;administer at least one test associated with the eye examinations utilizing the ophthalmic equipment, the eye examinations including objective portions that utilize the ophthalmic equipment to derive at least one objective measurement pertaining to the at least one test and subjective portions that utilize an audio response system that is configured to output one or more questions to the customers and receive one or more responses pertaining to the at least one test, wherein the subjective portions of the eye examinations are administered using an iterative process that includes:
selecting questions to present to the customers based, at least in part, on collected testing data comprising the at least one objective measurement derived during the objective portions of the eye examinations and the one or more responses that are received from the customers via the audio response system;based on the one or more responses received from the customers via the audio response system, automatically adjusting the ophthalmic equipment utilized in administering the subjective portion of the eye examination; anddetermining that the iterative process should be concluded in response to detecting that the one or more responses received from the customers satisfy one or more conditions indicating that sufficient data has been collected; andtransmit customer examination data including information associated with the at least one administered test over the network; a plurality of practitioner devices associated with the eye-care practitioners, wherein the practitioner devices are configured to:
receive at least a portion of the customer examination data associated with the eye examinations;display the received customer examination data to the eye-care practitioners; andgenerate at least one eye health report based on the received customer examination data; wherein the at least one eye health report is provided to one or more of the customers.