Topcon Healthcare Inc. announced a partnership with Microsoft Corporation to deliver AI-powered 'Healthcare from the Eye' solutions to improve healthcare access, cost, and quality. A cloud-based connected network of healthcare providers using the Nuance Precision Imaging Network and the THI Harmony platform will empower patients and healthcare providers to participate in pre-screening for systemic and neurological disease via a robotic, rapid, and non-invasive eye scan. Since establishing the Microsoft collaboration in February of 2024, THI has initiated several projects to drive the mission forward.

A collaboration with the University of California, San Diego aims to show the value of AI-powered screening and coordinated care of diabetic patients across primary care, optometry, and ophthalmology. IDHea, a large, secure, population database platform, is governed by an external data access and governance (DAG) committee to ensure fair and ethical access to data. IDHea is engaged in multiple research studies with organizations including Visionworks, Keplr Vision, and UC San Diego Health Shiley Eye Institute, integrating Microsoft Azure secure cloud-storage and advanced computing technologies to ensure data security and protect propriety algorithms. A proof-of-concept study involving National Vision Inc., Toku Inc., and BeeKeeperAI demonstrates that Toku's AI-powered BioAge algorithm can be securely deployed in a large-scale clinical setting using BeeKeeperAI's confidential computing technology and end-to-end encryption.

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