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Product: Topcon Healthcare, Inc. has launched the Institute of Digital Health (IDHea), an ocular data-as-a-service platform designed to accelerate AI research and digital health innovation.
Top Line: IDHea provides fast and secure access to unique real-world and clinical trial datasets, driving breakthroughs in health care applications that improve outcomes in both ocular and systemic diseases.
Close Up: Part of Topcon’s Healthcare from the Eye initiative, the strategy of applying AI models to imaging data from the eye to facilitate earlier detection and better management of disease, IDHea provides a platform to transform clinical data into actionable insights through AI-powered analytics and seamless connectivity. “We established IDHea to accelerate development of AI-powered clinical decision support systems and oculomics, the science of analyzing ocular data to identify, diagnose, and manage ocular and systemic disease,” said Julia Coelho, VP of data and digital strategy at Topcon Healthcare.
Vital Statistics: IDHea offers access to highly structured, multilevel-labeled datasets from primary care and eyecare screening settings, encompassing both healthy individuals and a broad spectrum of eye conditions.