This results in a better patient experience, cost savings and improved standards of care. Simulation training is proven to effectively decrease complication rates, reduce surgical time and improve outcomes among a surgeon’s early surgical cases. Simulation: Orbis’s simulation training program uses VR, prosthetics, and sophisticated, life-like mannequins so teams can safely build skills and confidence before progressing to real-life surgeries. Refinements needed to further increase the accuracy of the technology and the number of conditions it can detect will be made possible through the Fund. This is a game-changing technology for increasing access to early detection, which is critical to prevent treatable eye conditions from leading to vision loss. The Fund will also cover the development of new Cybersight courses as well as enhancements to the platform.Īrtificial Intelligence: A new artificial intelligence tool on Cybersight can detect common eye diseases, such as diabetic retinopathy, in seconds by examining digital photographs of the back of the eye. This will provide even more doctors and clinicians – including in remote and conflict-affected areas – with access to training and virtual mentoring. Through Cybersight, Orbis trained nearly 6,000 eye health professionals in 165 countries, including remote and conflict-affected areas, in 2018 alone.Īn important goal of the Fund is to develop a Cybersight mobile app. Telemedicine: For over 15 years, Cybersight has used the latest advancements in technologies to give eye care teams virtual access to clinical training, live lectures, demonstrations, and on-demand advice for complex patient cases. The Silicon Valley Orbis Innovation Fund will expand the reach of Orbis’s achievements in technology and innovation in the following ways: Today, Orbis’s innovative approaches are also carried out via long-term programming in 18 countries worldwide and through the organization’s award-winning telemedicine platform, Cybersight. In 1982, Orbis harnessed technology and innovation in efforts to end avoidable blindness, beginning with the invention of its Flying Eye Hospital, a fully accredited ophthalmic teaching hospital onboard an aircraft. Orbis’s vision for the future will shape the future of vision as we know it.” “I’m proud to invest in Orbis because it’s an organization that understands the power of making cutting-edge technology accessible to communities for whom it normally remains out of reach. “We live in a remarkable time of innovation, but too often, technologies never reach the people who could most benefit from them,” said John A. This makes it an especially critical moment to reimagine how we train eye care teams and prepare them to provide quality care in their communities. “Training entire eye care teams – everyone from health workers in rural clinics to eye surgeons in urban centers – is the best, most sustainable way to ensure no one needlessly lives a life without sight.”Įxperts predicted that global blindness and visual impairment will triple by 2050, but the number of people needing eye care is outpacing the number of trained ophthalmologists. We have an opportunity to change that,” said Bob Ranck, President & CEO of Orbis International. “Hundreds of millions of people go through life facing blindness and visual impairment simply because they can’t get the eye care they need. The new technologies will include innovations in telemedicine, artificial intelligence, simulation and virtual reality (VR) that will increase access to training for eye care teams in low- and middle-income settings. Sobrato, held at Mountain View’s Computer History Museum. The Fund kicked off today with a $1 million donation from Silicon Valley philanthropists Susan and John A. Bob Ranck, President & CEO of Orbis InternationalMOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, UNITED STATES, Decem/ / - This Giving Tuesday, Orbis International announced the launch of its Silicon Valley Orbis Innovation Fund, which seeks to raise $8 million in donations to harness the next generation of technology that will revolutionize the future of equitable access to quality eye care and ophthalmological training.
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