Abstract:
Clear vision is one of the fundamental necessities of any human being. An average of 75% of the population at least visits an optician or doctor (ophthalmologist) in 6 months for an eye check-up. The vision test and the color blindness tests, which are the most common tests in the eye domain, takes at least 15-25 minutes of the doctor’s time per person. Daily the ophthalmologists (doctors) examine more than 30 patients that only require vision testing or examination of eye for different color vision deficiencies.
With the exceedingly rapid advancements in the field of technology, the entire concept of medicine and patient treatment is evolving and taking a new shape altogether. The idea of telemedicine (the use of telecommunication and information technologies in order to provide clinical health care at a distance) is deepening its roots with every passing day. Keeping this in mind and its significance in today’s world, our aim is to develop an android application that is accessible to every android tablet/smartphone user to perform eye tests in order to check defective vision along with color vision deficiencies such as color blindness.
The application will have a modular structure targeting four major eye tests i.e. distant vision test (Visual acuity), Ishihara and FM100 test (Color blindness tests) and fundus imagery (Fundus eye infection test).This application will not only provide free, fast, zero-travelling cost, efficient and accurate results to the users but will also help to reduce the number of patients that the doctor has to treat thereby reducing the doctor’s burden. Also the paramedics, health workers and doctors can take this application in the remotest areas and can perform eye tests on patients who are not provided with basic health facilities in routine. Diagnosis suite will also increase the awareness among the general population.
