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social enterprise. It was founded in 2014 by ophthalmologists Hong Sheng Chiong and

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, New Zealand. The company sought to improve access to eye care by making affordable smartphone-based ophthalmic imaging devices. Their product, ODocs, was publicly disclosed in 2015 when he delivered the message at

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. In 2015, the company won the New Zealand Health Informatics Clinician challenge for the active project category.

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