Nelson was one of the first patients to undergo an eye exam on an early version of HDai's Native-AI Community Eyecare platform deployed in a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in East Atlanta. Nelson and his family migrated from Jamaica more than 25 years ago and he visited the clinic at least twice yearly where his primary care physician managed his diabetes and high blood pressure. His primary care physician referred him to ophthalmology, but few practices took his insurance and most had long waiting lists.
Unbeknownst to Nelson or his doctors, as the years passed by, he was slowly going blind as Glaucoma irreversibly destroyed his eyesight. Nelson's tragic story illustrates the high human costs when the healthcare system fails to provide needed care.
Today in Nelson’s clinic, the HDai's V1.0 Platform powers an on-site eye clinic that delivers comprehensive, AI-enhanced eye care to the clinic’s 30,000 underserved patients, where the prevalence of sight-threatening disease is 11%. Every day, the clinic finds potential “Nelsons” — patients with undiagnosed, progressive eye disease. But unlike Nelson, their stories have happier endings — thanks to early detection and treatment enabled by HDai’s Native-AI Eyecare Platform. By digitizing and augmenting the exam, the platform empowers eye specialists to deliver expert care remotely, while a local network of subspecialists provides tertiary care and surgery for advanced cases. Together, this new category of care — Native-AI Community Eyecare — offers earlier intervention, higher access, and better outcomes for the patients who need it most.
This is HDai’s purpose: to fix healthcare with our Native-AI Platform innovations and prevent tragedies like Nelson—and to make Native-AI Community Eyecare the new standard of care across FQHCs nationwide.
HDai's Purpose: Fix Healthcare's Problems and Their High Human Costs
The New Category of Native-AI Community Eyecare