Cybersight - Telemedicine

Orbis has spent two decades developing our award-winning telemedicine and e-learning platform, Cybersight, which offers free virtual access to world-class ophthalmic training resources developed by international medical experts. The platform allows us to extend clinical training far beyond the areas where we run programs or where the Flying Eye Hospital touches down.

Our expert volunteers provide on-demand advice for complex cases, mentoring local eye care professionals on diagnosis and treatment of their patients. We help combat geographic isolation with easy access to an expert second opinion.

We also make sure that everyone benefits from our training activities on board the Flying Eye Hospital, wherever it is in the world. We broadcast live lectures and surgeries to partner hospitals and classrooms around the globe. Remote participants enjoy a similar experience as those in the onboard classroom: they see surgeries through the operating microscope and can ask questions of expert surgeons and lecturers in real time.

Cybersight is also a living library of our collective training efforts, freely available to all eye health professionals including current and future generations of nurses, optometrists, anesthesiologists and ophthalmologists.

Orbis recently launched a new Cybersight mobile app that enables eye teams to create and respond to patient cases while offline, and automatically syncs when the user next connects to the internet. The flexibility this offline functionality provides is critical for eye teams working in areas with poor or no internet connectivity, including in remote or conflict-affected communities.

*Lifetime/cumulative data as of June 2025

Thanks to Cybersight, we're now training more people in more places than ever before. The Cybersight community has grown to more than 115,000 registered eye health professionals from nearly every country in the world, It has delivered more than 30,000 patient consultations.

And this is just the beginning—with your support we can launch new innovations and radically scale access to eye care training and mentorship to help improve access to eye care for millions of people.

A new artificial intelligence tool on our Cybersight platform can detect common eye diseases, such as diabetic retinopathy, in seconds by examining digital photographs of the back of the eye. This is game-changing for increasing access to early detection, which is critical to prevent treatable eye conditions from leading to vision loss. Further refinements will be made to increase the accuracy of the technology and the number of conditions this incredible tool can detect.

The price point of cutting-edge technologies such as AI has too often kept them out of reach for the eye care professionals who need them most. Many experts consider AI to be the next big thing in ophthalmology and has the potential to revolutionize access to adequate eye screenings, diagnostics and treatment. Cybersight AI ensures that eye care professionals in low- and middle-income countries can access these tools for free.