The American Academy of Ophthalmology and DigiSight Technologies, Inc. have announced an agreement to operate the world's largest database of ophthalmic clinical information. As part of the agreement, the Academy is licensing commercial application of its IRIS® Registry (Intelligent Research in Sight) to DigiSight. Terms were not disclosed.
The arrangement enables DigiSight to build new analytic applications and user interfaces to enhance the IRIS Registry, which will be marketed to pharmaceutical companies, device manufacturers, health systems, payers and other customers that can benefit from the vast database to innovate ophthalmic patient care.
The IRIS Registry was developed to improve patient care, enable clinical discovery and simplify federal government and commercial payer quality reporting. It is a centralised collection and analytic software tool that compiles and processes data from electronic health records and other sources to enable ophthalmologists to analyse patient outcomes, benchmark to their peers and pinpoint opportunities for improvement.
The database also facilitates analytics of eye care issues at a population level including disease natural history, impact of comorbidities, comparison of therapies, outcomes of care, and support of clinical research human trials. Launched in 2014, it is the largest specialty-based clinical data registry in all of medicine, with more than 41.2 million unique patients in its database, representing 166.2 million patient visits.
Founded by renowned eye physicians and surgeons, DigiSight is led by a team of healthcare and technology veterans and backed by blue-chip investors. Through the creation of a segregated commercial focus for the IRIS Registry, DigiSight will be able to deploy the resources needed to quickly respond to the demands of industry partners that can utilise the aggregate, de-identified data set to create innovative new solutions for patient care.
The Academy noted that its relationship with its member physicians participating in the IRIS Registry is unchanged. Access remains available to all members in good standing. The same protections for individual data and dissemination of that data continue as before.
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