Mobile Fundus Camera –

RetinaScope BV

RetinaScope BV is a Dutch start-up company and spin-out of the Dutch value added distribution company IDCP BV. The start and the development of RetinaScope BV are enabled by research organisations, government grants and financial institutions. RetinaScope BV is founded in 2018. The shareholders are the IDCP Group BV (80%) and TNO technology Transfer Holding BV (20%). The founder and CEO of RetinaScope BV is Jan Boers, the owner of the IDCP Group.

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Mobile Fundus Camera –

RetinaScope BV

RetinaScope Motivation

At least two billion people are living with vision impairment or blindness and more than one billion people have vision impairment that could have been prevented or is yet to be addressed. Global eye care needs are projected to increase substantially, with half the global population expected to be living with a vision impairment by 2050.

In July 2021 the General Assembly of the United Nations has adopted the resolution: “Vision for Everyone: accelerating action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.” This resolution was unanimously passed by the 193 countries of the United Nations and makes clear that eye health is a priority development and human rights issue. About 90% of preventable vision loss occurs in low-and-middle income countries, of which 55% affects women and girls. The UN resolution recognizes the inequalities in the access to eye care services, expectations for change, and how intertwined eye health is with meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals for the Agenda by 2030. The roadmap how to get there is now in sight.

One of the main roads to achieve these goals is the availability of low cost and easy to use equipment for retina screening in order to upscale preventive testing.

RetinaScope Vision

The only way to prevent hundreds of millions of people in the world from suffering of vision impairment and blindness, is to scale up early detection by eye screening. The availability of a low cost and easy to use handheld camera is a crucial condition for the upscaling of early analysis and diagnosis of eye diseases. The RetinaScope will be an integral part of an ecosystem and will therefore be seamlessly interconnected with all partners such as general practitioners, optometrists, ophthalmologists, hospitals, health care service providers and insurance companies.

RetinaScope Mission

To develop and bring to market medical devices and related software, solutions and services for advanced retinal screening and other applications in the field of imaging, screening & sensoring. RetinaScope BV will play a major role in the development, production, development, marketing and sales of teleophthalmology products, solutions and services. The first products for retinal screening was launched in 2022 with the RS Plus software and nun+ WFC-01 fundus camera. RetinaScope BV is committed to develop more innovative camera based products and to cooperate with international partners in developing innovative solutions and services for the teleophthalmology market.

Partners

RetinaScope BV works closely together with several partners from the Netherlands, Italy, Scotland and Taiwan.

RetinaScope BV is setting up and participating in international consortia to run pilots with all parties involved in the provision of innovative and enhanced tele-ophthalmology services in developed and developing countries. RetinaScope BV is paying a lot of attention to the integration of the RetinaScope camera in existing and developing tele-healthcare services. The goal is to keep the operational and administrative burden for the client and the clinician as small as possible.

CAMERA TECHNOLOGY

ANMO ELECTRONICS (TAIWAN) -

AnMo Electronics Corp. from Taiwan is the manufacturer of the Dino-Lite microscope.

OPTICAL/MECHANICAL DEVELOPMENT

TNO (THE NETHERLANDS)

TNO is the largest research institute in the Netherlands with 3,200 professionals.

UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE

IDCP SCOTLAND (UNITED KINGDOM)

IDCP Scotland is the R&D company in the IDCP Group, closely related to sister company RetinaScope.

Team

RetinaScope BV was established in 2018 as a spin-out of the Dutch Value Added Distribution company IDCP BV by its founder, Jan Boers. In early 2020, TNO became a shareholder, and the Innovation Fund North Holland provided a convertible loan.