Patent ID: 7520611

Claim:
A system for conducting a comprehensive eye examination from a remote location, comprising a plurality of eye examination devices selected from the group consisting of a case history capture device, lensometer, tonometer, visual fields tester, fundus camera, retinal imaging system, posterior segment imaging system, automated refractor, biomicroscope and corneal topographer located at an eye examination location that conducts a comprehensive eye examination, and providing and transmitting data from the comprehensive eye examination to a location remote from said eye examination location upon examining the eye of a patient; a diagnostic center situated in said remote location and capable of receiving transmitted eye examination data from said eye examination location to enable the diagnosis of an eye disorder or disease of the patient by a licensed eye care practitioner located at the diagnostic center, the diagnostic center including no eye examination devices; a communications link between the eye examination location and the remote location capable of carrying said transmitted eye examination data from the eye examination devices in the eye examination location to the diagnostic center in the remote location, thus permitting the licensed eye care practitioner to provide a diagnosis and prescription based on the eye examination data to the patient before the patient leaves the eye examination location, wherein said comprehensive eye examination data comprises at least two types of information selected from the group consisting of information provided by the patient; posterior segment information; refraction information; neutralization of the habitual prescription; tonometry information; blood pressure information; anterior segment information; corneal topography; and intraocular lens status.