Online eyewear and vision care company Visibly announced it had received FDA 510(k) clearance for its at-home vision test. The Visibly Digital Acuity Product uses a touchscreen mobile device, like a ...

Credit: Shutterstock. Individuals can complete the test in approximately 6 minutes, at which point the test results will be made available to an eye care professional. The Food and Drug Administration ...

The FDA announced that it cleared the Visibly Digital Acuity Product, a web-based, self-guided software application for testing visual acuity at home. The technology, which the FDA cleared Aug. 12, is ...

Three visual acuity tests taken at home produce results comparable to those achieved with standard tests taken in the office, researchers say. All the tests are free. Two measure near vision, and the ...

A smartphone app was found to be useful and reliable by clinicians when testing vision for children during the COVID-19 pandemic. Assessing vision was found to be easy by families and reliable by ...

What The Study Did: At-home visual acuity tests were compared with in-office acuity measurements to validate their use with telehealth appointments in the era of COVID-19. Authors: Merina Thomas, M.D.