Eyeona (formerly Tritheia) is comprehensive and very customizable vision therapy and testing software written by Levi Zurcher OD. It runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac. Development started in 2008 and continues to this day.
What does it do?
Use it at the office and provide access for patients to use it at home (if you choose.)
User Management: Edit patient information, assign doctors and therapists.
Activity Management: Create your own activities (both traditional and computerized.) Edit instructions, activity parameters, documentation templates, and report templates. Freely share these activities with others.
Testing: eye tracking (saccade, fixation) analysis, Hess test, fixation disparity curve, aniseikonia, scoring perceptual tests, etc. It can also be used for performing vision screenings.
Create and customize therapy programs for each patient. Create preset programs to start with.
Create your own content: activities, lists, stories, charts, and images (for anaglyphs, stereoscope, and presentation.) These can be exported and shared with others.
Equipment management (inventory, pricing, checking out to patients.)
Generate reports to monitor patient progress and compliance.
Printables: Many modules have a printable option. You can create red/green color printer profiles for perfect cancellation.
Is it an alternative to traditional vision therapy?
No. This software was designed to help enhance and modernize a vision therapy practice rather than replace it. Our visual systems were designed to guide the movement of our whole body in real space. While there are some activities that are well-suited to the computer, we shouldn’t rely on it exclusively.
Why did you do this?
As a creative person, vision therapy is the area of Optometry that has most appealed to me. We have had to come up with creative ways to help our patients and there's a long history of OD's and therapists making their own tools and techniques and sharing them with others. Just because we've moved into the digital age doesn't mean we should give that up. I wanted to build a platform that allows us to keep making our own stuff (digital and physical.) From a doctor's perspective, I also wanted to be more self sufficient and not become overly reliant on platforms that could shut down or be sold off with little notice.
