Enabling access to eye care through technology to eliminate avoidable blindness.
We believe eye care is a universal human right.
At Visilant, we strive to enable equitable access to eye care using telemedicine and artificial intelligence. Our intelligent telemedicine platform is designed to reach patients in the last mile and integrate them into the eye care system, so that no patient has to experience vision loss or blindness from preventable causes.
1.1 billion people live with vision loss
90%
of people with vision loss live in low- or middle- income countries (LMICs)
90%
of vision loss is preventable or treatable
20%
of people with vision loss can access eye care in LMICs
Visilant is developing technology to address this disparity and provide eye care to all
A comprehensive digital healthcare solution for eye screening in low-resource settings
Mobile field app and diagnostic algorithms
Used by frontline health workers to collect complaints, history, visual acuity, and images of the eye
Simple, high quality eye imaging
Affordable smartphone attachment deskills anterior segment eye imaging
Provider review and patient management dashboard
Provider-facing dashboard enables efficient review of patient records and reports of screening outcomes
Connecting last mile patients with access to high quality eye care
50-70%
cost saved per patient
57
patients screened
5,000
patients received treatment
3,500
health workers trained
quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) gained
7,000+
Our Partners
Visilant is a 501(c)(3) social enterprise spun out of the Center for Bioengineering Innovation & Design and Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Visilant is led by a multidisciplinary team of ophthalmologists, biomedical engineers, computer scientists, and social entrepreneurs. Our mission is to eliminate avoidable vision loss globally by enabling equitable access to high quality eye screening and care. We partner with high volume, charitable eye hospitals in LMICs to develop and validate comprehensive digital healthcare solutions for eye care in low-resource settings.