Author: Alan Goodloe
Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is quickly becoming fundamental in delivering seamless, personalized experiences. Whether it’s Alexa or Siri processing verbal requests, Netflix suggesting new shows, or Nest learning our behaviors to anticipate A/C adjustments, AI is becoming embedded in our daily life, including our healthcare. The same way companies are using AI to analyze billions of transactions to learn how to cause a positive effect, Eye C Better is leveraging the power of AI to create the outcome we are looking for … a Lifetime of Vision.
Artificial intelligence, also known as AI for short, is the simulation of human intelligence by a machine. It’s software that runs on a computer, that tries to recreate how humans learn and associate things. As an example: When we burn our hand on a hot pan on the stovetop, we learn to not touch it or use some type of protectant to grab the pan. This way we don’t burn our hand each time. AI would process the various bits of information (i.e., pan, stove, cooking, heat, person touching) and analyze the various conditions (stove on/off, pan on/off stove, person touching with various with and without protectants), to connect it with specific outcomes (burnt hand, didn’t burn hand). Ultimately it learns the combinations that produce a burnt hand or not and then we can use that information to have the AI engine look for those specific conditions and trigger various things to occur. Today, AI is used for a variety of applications including:
- Personalized Shopping
- Voice Assistants (Alexa or Siri)
- Fraud Prevention
- Smart Content Creation (Personalized content delivered based on a variety of factors)
- Task Automation
- Personalized Learning
- Autonomous Vehicles
The major benefit of AI is that unlike humans that are limited in the number of data points they can analyze to produce a specific learning, AI machines can analyze hundreds, thousands and even millions of data points. In healthcare, this improves patient care and accuracy of medical diagnosis & predicted conclusions that ultimately yield improved patient outcomes. For glaucoma patients, this means:
- Improved Accuracy of Intraocular Pressure (IoP) Readings
- Promotion of Early Interventions (which is the key to not losing your sight)
- Quicker Feedback Loops to Support Rapid Improvements to Training and Education
- Prioritized Patient Care
Reducing Bias and Fostering Equity in Underserved Communities
Think about these glaucoma facts.
- Normal patient eye pressure fluctuates up to 6 mmHG (millimeters of Mercury) during the day
- Glaucoma patient eye pressure fluctuates up to 10 mmHG during the day.
- Most people get eye pressure checked during eye exams
- Covid has caused more people to go longer between eye exams (sometimes 2 – 5 years)
- Current Gold Standard for eye pressure readings is technology developed in the 1950s
- Accuracy of the Gold Standard can be off by double digit mmHG
- A change of just 1mmHG +/- can cause a doctor to change your medical plan
It’s no wonder over 50% of people with glaucoma don’t know they have it. They rely on one reading every two to five years from their doctor and hope they are lucky that their reading time is during a fluctuating eye pressure moment that gives the doctor an accurate picture to prescribe the right plan. For those with glaucoma that get their readings more often, they are still impacted by pressure fluctuation, putting doctors in a disadvantage to create an optimal care plan.
It’s long overdue for glaucoma patients to have a personal device that can accurately monitor and track their eye pressure readings during the day. Eye C Better’s patented technology empowers the patient to track their eye pressure readings throughout the day, providing their doctor with the best, most accurate picture of their eye pressure.
Eye C Better is very excited about its new digital glaucoma device, that can potentially produce hundreds of readings per day, per patient. Eye C Better’s Glaucoma Engine, powered by AI, analyzes numerous factors (sex, age, ethnicity, geography, medicines, supplements, exercise, blood pressure, diet, other illnesses, etc.) from all our patients to better understand what increases or decreases a specific patient’s eye pressure. Our Glaucoma Engine segments these factors across sex, race, age, etc., to recommend a personalized care plan to your doctor, which ultimately decides on the best care plan for you. Eye C Better’s Glaucoma Engine is not a substitute for an actual doctor and all recommendations and final decisions is up to your doctor. Our Glaucoma Engine is meant to accelerate the identification of patterns that are not easily found by human analysis. As the Glaucoma Engine identifies patterns to generate recommendations, the doctor will ultimately verify these findings and determine your best care plan.
