Visioneering Technologies, Inc (ASX: VTI) has launched of Shared Vision, an education platform featuring some of the eye care industry’s leading clinicians and researchers.
Nearsightedness, or “myopia”, is affecting children at accelerating rates around the world, with 80- 90% of children in many Asian countries suffering from myopia, double the rate of 30 years ago.
Paediatric myopia typically worsens through childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood and correlates to elevated lifetime risk of serious ocular diseases, including blindness.
Managing myopia as a progressive disease needing treatment beyond just vision correction is becoming an important aspect of eye care practices. Shared Vision features insights on myopia management from 15 global key opinion leaders (KOLs) in an easily consumable short-video format.
CEO Stephen Snowdy, PhD, said the aim of Shared Vision is to offer busy eye care professionals (ECPs) an easily consumed program that will help them understand myopia management and how to incorporate this important care into their practices.
The understanding of myopia and how to manage it has greatly expanded in the past decade, with researchers, educators and clinicians studying, publishing and presenting new knowledge at an ever- accelerating pace. However, the amount of research and the expanding number of educational events held worldwide has made it increasingly difficult for ECPs to keep up with the latest in myopia management.
With many global educational events now paused due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Visioneering saw a unique opportunity to give ECPs anywhere in the world virtual access to KOLs willing to share their expertise with others.
Shared Vision is a resource that brings information on myopia management to ECPs in a format that makes it easy for them to watch and learn when and where it is most convenient.
VTI is optimistic that ECPs worldwide will find Shared Vision to be an invaluable educational resource for their efforts to provide better myopia management for their patients.
We are very excited to launch Shared Vision, an important educational initiative that we believe will greatly benefit ECPs worldwide,” Mr Snowdy said.
“By partnering with 15 of the world’s top KOLs in the field of myopia, we have created easily consumable yet highly informative content which should prove very valuable to ECPs who struggle to stay abreast of the rapidly expanding knowledge and trends in myopia management.
“It is also worth noting that Shared Vision is not limited to ECPs and we encourage anyone whose life is impacted by myopia to visit the website and watch the videos.”