News and notices. Comm Eye Health Vol. 28 No. 92 2015. April 15, 2016

Peek Vision

A Peek health care worker screening in the community. KENYA. Peek
A Peek health care worker screening in the community. KENYA. Peek

Peek, the Portable Eye Examination Kit, is a set of diagnostic tools that allows eye care workers to use a smartphone to screen eye patients. It makes use of ‘cloud’-based systems to enable data sharing, referral and follow-up of patients.

Peek Retina is an adapter placed over the camera of a smartphone that enables retinal imaging. It has been trialled in Kenya as a prototype, showing it to be comparable to a desktop camera for optic nerve imaging. Further studies are underway to validate its use for diabetic retinopathy and malaria retinopathy.

A diabetic retinopathy screening system including Peek Acuity and Peek Retina is currently being built and trialled in Tanzania. The team hopes to make this widely available once it is fully functional and the programme evaluation is complete.

Peek apps will be free to download from the Google Play store once ready for release. Peek Retina is anticipated to be complete and ready for shipping in 2016. To keep updated on our research, release dates and news, please sign up to our newsletter at www.peekvision.org

An update from the journal publisher, the International Centre for Eye Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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