100% Mobile Service Integrated with Web Based Secure Data

IEC also provides the technical components, ancillary ocular health testing and, when required, ophthalmology onsite management to diagnose and manage most glaucoma, certain diabetic retina diseases, macular degeneration and other eye diseases, eliminating or reducing offsite medical visits. IEC is the only provider of such a comprehensive and complete 100% mobile service integrated with web based secure data sharing capability in the country and have been doing so since 2000.

Typically, patients with glaucoma are sent off site for visual fields, OCT (nerve fiber layer analysis), optical nerve head imaging (photos) and, possibly, pachymetry and angle assessment. Patients with diabetic retinopathy or macular degeneration also require routine retina imaging and OCT to properly manage their ocular conditions. IEC has the expert onsite capabilities to provide corneal topography and pachymetry to enhance corneal disease management. IEC’s On Site Ocular Health Services provides the technical testing, which then allows patients with many of these conditions to be managed by the medical staff at his or her home site.

As the correctional population continues to age, another area where these services are integrated into correctional medical care include neurology conditions resulting in visual field loss such as stroke, aneurysm or tumor. Visual fields are useful in assessing migraine. All imaging, analysis, and other test results and data are shared with the patient’s treatment team for coordinated care and treatment. This clinical data is shared through a HIPAA compliant, cloud-based platform designed specifically for IEC.

The patient’s data can be integrated into any facility’s existing EMR program. However, our platform is independent and does NOT require access to the facility’s computer system or the internet while onsite. The eye doctor assesses the data to make an initial diagnosis, initiate a medical management plan, schedule follow-up appointments and/or request referrals.

IEC’s trained technicians travel to each facility to perform the tests, exams, routine visual fields, measurements, imagining and topography.

These include but are not limited to:

• OCT- Nerve Fiber Layer Analysis used for managing Retina Diseases and Glaucoma. This is the “gold standard” in differentiating glaucoma patients with progressive optic nerve damage – often before change could be determined using more standard tests.

• Visual Fields are performed on site using a completely portable visual field unit. Our visual field units provide visual software programs required to manage glaucoma and other visual field loss.

• Retinal Photography i.e. digital imaging, is performed using fully portable non-mydriatic camera systems. Imaging/Photos is the standard of care in managing most retinopathies. Non-mydriatic cameras offer the potential to acquire retina images without dilating the pupil. Digital images afford a greater level of permanent documentation accuracy compared to handwritten notes or drawings of retina disease.

• Pachymetry is corneal thickness measurement and is part of our tomographic system. This program provides corneal thickness assessment for the entire cornea – not just a selected area or average of multiple tests.

• Angle Imaging is also part of our services. Utilizing this program, the managing eye doctor is provided a permanent image of the drainage angle to better manage glaucoma.

• Corneal Topography is essential in mapping the contours of the cornea. This is used primarily to diagnosis and monitor the progression of corneal disease such as keratoconus or corneal scarring or other deformities.

• Tonometry using the latest in electronic interocular pressure measuring equipment.