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Systems and methods for enabling customers to obtain vision and eye health examinations

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  • US 10,083,279 B2
  • Filed: 12/11/2015
  • Issued: 09/25/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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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; and

    determining 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; and

    transmit 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; and

    generate 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.

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