Clarity Medical Systems Inc.
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
For all intents and purposes, ophthalmologists and optometrists are using the same screening and imaging technologies for diagnosing eye disorders that they have used for the past century. Clarity Medical Systems intends to disrupt the status quo with a single platform that physicians can use to screen, evaluate and one day potentially treat eye disease.
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