Notal Vision Diagnostic Clinic—Your Practice’s Partner for Remote Patient Monitoring

The Notal Vision Diagnostic Clinic is the service provider that functions to make the ForeseeHome Monitoring Program a natural extension of the clinician’s practice. Staffed by certified ophthalmic professionals and focused on patient and physician engagement, the Diagnostic Clinic fundamentally supports use of at-home monitoring to make it practical, beneficial, and simple to use in real-world settings.

There are several convenient ways for the clinician to get patients with intermediate AMD enrolled in the Diagnostic Clinic, including an online portal. There is no charge to the practice to participate, and staff are trained on integrating the patients’ introduction and referral to at-home monitoring into the clinical workflow, meaning there is minimal to no interruption to regular patient care routines. Once the patient is enrolled, the Diagnostic Clinic takes the reins to support with benefits verification, onboarding (including shipping the device to the patient), remote device training, and, over time, support with testing (Figure).

Ultimately, the Notal Vision Diagnostic Clinic and ForeseeHome Monitoring Program are a safety net, with implications for improving diagnostic acumen, enhancing patient care, and facilitating patient engagement. The most obvious benefit of the service is the ability to help with detection of conversion from intermediate AMD to neovascular AMD so that patients can be promptly scheduled for treatment. There is a robust and growing body of scientific literature proving that better visual acuity at the time of anti-VEGF initiation results in long-term functional visual acuity. In addition, ForeseeHome monitoring is the only method proven in a clinical trial to detect neovascular, or wet AMD, while the visual acuity is good.

For busy practices, having patients work with the Diagnostic Clinic means less chance that conversion will be missed and that patients slip through the cracks. In fact, the Diagnostic Clinic complements office-based services to ensure patients are monitored in between visits, thus optimizing the chance for a favorable treatment outcome. Patients are looking for care providers that integrate digital health technology and services designed to improve outcomes, and that is exactly what the Diagnostic Clinic and ForeseeHome Monitoring Program do.

As noted above, the service associated with the Diagnostic Clinic comes at no cost to the provider while delivering concierge style service to patients. Once enrolled, a Diagnostic Clinic team member contacts the patient to walk him or her through the shipping and onboarding process and device training. Over time, that patient’s daily testing results are tracked; an artificial intelligence algorithm signals any deviation detected, which is then confirmed by the Diagnostic Clinic and reviewed by an ophthalmologist. The alert is then communicated to the practice for follow-up. The Diagnostic Clinic also monitors patients’ usage patterns; patients who fail to perform the test as suggested are contacted with a reminder about the importance of regular use.

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