What in the ophthalmic field is your team most excited about right now?
The harmonization of eye care is essential to meet the growing demand for eye care and help minimize preventable vision loss globally. We are excited to see eye care stakeholders adopting our Harmony software platform to facilitate communications around patient needs and amass data that is informing clinical decision support dashboards tailored to specific diseases and practice settings. This growing ecosystem of eye care facilities, clinicians and data will activate more effective decision-making tools, support earlier detection, enable core decisions focused on the needs of individual patients, and encourage effective collaboration between eye care providers.
In what area of ophthalmology do you think your team can make a unique impact?
Topcon has a comprehensive suite of robotic, multiple function, and cost-effective devices to make examinations quicker and more accessible, increasing access to care, patient throughput and practice revenues. Our Harmony cloud-based software platform has been integrated in primary care, primary eye care and advanced eye care practices. The datadriven vendor-neutral dashboards on Harmony will drive digital health to facilitate earlier detection of disease, inform treatment decisions, and allow transparent collaboration between eye care providers. Additionally, Topcon Screen helps increase access to care by enabling primary care physicians to identify and refer patients into eye care, helping to facilitate better outcomes for patients.
What are the biggest challenges when it comes to making an impact with new technology or innovations?
One of the biggest challenges is when new innovations are not integrated effectively within eye care workflows, or when data is not effectively connected with other technologies. To address this, Harmony enables secure, transparent and seamless integration of images and data, while also allowing for these data to be transmitted between care facilities and eye care providers. This means even doctors with non- Topcon devices can utilize our datadriven clinical decision dashboards. Harmony’s cloud-based infrastructure also allows doctors without Harmony to provide second opinions and view the relevant clinical data that was aggregated and transmitted by the referring site. We believe widescale access to eye health data will drive technological innovations for advancing eye care. We are leading the way in standardization of, and access to, real-world diagnostic data to enhance clinical research and create a healthy competitive environment for technology manufacturers to advance their eye care solutions.
