#017 How Mark Vizard from Rayner, World’s First Interocular Lens Manufacturer Tackles Digital

Implementing digital solutions is starting to make a lot of sense in many areas in healthcare. How about ophthalmology though, specifically when treating cataracts? On this episode, we've got the incredibly well-spoken Mark Vizard, digital health manager over at Rayner. Rayner has always been at the forefront of innovation when it comes to intraocular lenses or IOLs; a lens implant for treating cataracts or myopia. While cataract surgery generally has a high success rate, there's still a ways to go in terms of patient outcomes and experience. And that starts with gathering and aggregating the right data. Clinicians are already logging a ton of data through various systems, but not so much in terms of how patients themselves feel about lens replacements in general, nor their reported outcomes after the surgery. Rayner noticed these patient-reported outcomes could be the missing link in providing optimal patient care. Hence, they've created two mobile applications to deal with this challenge: RayPRO, a system to easily record and analyze patient-reported outcome data following surgery.Raytrace, a calculator used by surgeons to find the appropriate lens based on biometric data. Learn all about why Rayner opted to go for this digital route in this episode of The Digital Health Podcast. Huge thanks to Mark Vizard for joining us and giving us an excellent rundown!