Windows software and Android app for Cataract management

People with cataracts can use GooPatient to track vision changes, record symptoms (such as blurriness, glare, or decreased vision in the dark), save test results (laboratory tests, ophthalmologist reports), a list of medications and their schedule, notes on how they feel on different days, changes in vision in different lighting or stress, dates of doctor appointments and post-appointment recommendations, and general information like chronic conditions, allergies, and doctor contacts—all of which helps them see the whole picture and not lose important details over time.

You can also add to your health journal encourading news about advances in the cataract management. Here are some of them:

Startup ForSight Robotics performed the world's first robotic cataract removal



Scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles and ForSight Robotics in 2026 performed the world's first fully robotic cataract surgery. The ORYOM technology is an autonomous robotic system controlled by a surgeon in an adjacent room via a high-resolution 3D console with haptic feedback. The system includes two robotic arms capable of performing all stages of the surgery: removing the clouded lens using an ultrasonic aspirator and implanting the artificial lens. The procedure allows for instrument manipulation with a precision of 53 microns, allowing the surgeon to operate through minimal corneal incisions. Importantly, all surgeries were performed without general anesthesia. This increases treatment safety, especially for elderly patients.

Google to help treat cataracts



In 2014 when Google founded its medical company Verily, its first project was creating contact lenses that measure glucose levels. It was supposed to save diabetics from daily finger pricking. But in 2018 they decided to discontinue the project, because they could not ensure sufficient accuracy of measurements. But while they were tinkering with contact lenses, they managed to create a more realistic technology to help people after cataract surgery and for the treatment of presbyopia. As for measuring glucose in tears, besides Verily, there are two more startups that continue to work in this direction. The first is the Canadian Medella Health, which a couple of years ago claimed that their measuring technology is more accurate than Google's. The second, the Dutch Noviosense, recently announced successful trials. True, he is not developing lenses, but a sensor that is installed under the lower eyelid.

In China a neural network trained to diagnose cataracts



A team of doctors and developers from Sun Yat-sen University in China in 2017 developed a neural network capable of diagnosing congenital (congenital) cataracts. The creators estimate the accuracy of this diagnosis at 90%—they say this is no worse than that of professional ophthalmologists. The fact is that congenital cataracts are quite rare, so no one routinely checks the eyes of infants. If a computer system can quickly and affordably take images and diagnose eyes, it could help prevent the risk of vision loss in children.

Bionic lens will free people from glasses and cataracts



Canadian company Ocumetics Technology in 2015 claimed it would soon revolutionize vision restoration and permanently free people from wearing glasses and contact lenses with a bionic lens. To use this lens, allegedly only a simple surgery is required, which lasts only 8 minutes. The bionic lens is injected into the eye with a syringe containing a regular saline solution, and the old lens is removed. This surgery is very similar to cataract removal. According to the developers, vision is corrected permanently, without deterioration over time. Moreover, a person wearing such a lens will never get cataracts. The company is currently planning a series of clinical trials, which will be accompanied by the assistance of several outstanding ophthalmologists. Most likely, the commercial implementation of the technology will be realized as early as 2017.