A Clearer View of Your Patients—Before They Arrive.

Standardized OSDI-6 scores and blink metrics delivered pre-visit to streamline triage and focus your chair time.

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Key benefits for your clinic

Save time & streamline triage

Reduce intake time by collecting dry eye symptom scores and blink metrics before the visit. Less chair-time for history taking, more time for examination and counselling.

Standardized, evidence-based inputs

Aqueo uses the OSDI-6 questionnaire and blink metrics to provide consistent, comparable data across visits and providers, helping clinicians quickly understand symptom burden.

Built for Canadian compliance

Designed for PHIPA/PIPEDA alignment, with data stored exclusively in AWS ca-central-1. Clinics remain the Health Information Custodian; Aqueo operates as your authorized agent.

Simple to deploy

Patients access Aqueo through their browser—no app downloads, no integration work, and no change to your EMR. You can start with a single provider or a pilot group.

How Aqueo fits into your workflow

PRE-VISIT

Before the visit

Your patient receives a secure link to complete a short OSDI-6 questionnaire and a guided blink test on their own device.

Automated scoring

Aqueo processes responses and blink video to generate standardized OSDI-6 scores and blink metrics (e.g., blink interval, incomplete blink rate).

IN-CLINIC

Clinic review

Results are delivered to your secure clinic portal, ready for review, triage, and annotation before the patient arrives.

Informed visit

With pre-visit data in hand, you can prioritize appointments, focus the examination, and spend more of the visit on interpretation and treatment planning instead of intake.

Aqueo vs. your current dry eye workflow

Without Aqueo	With Aqueo
Dry eye intake starts in the chair	Intake started before the visit with OSDI-6 and blink metrics
Symptom burden often undocumented or inconsistent	Standardized, comparable symptom scores for each patient
Blink behavior rarely assessed	Blink pattern metrics available at a glance
More admin time for history-taking	Less intake overhead, more time for examination and counselling

Clinical methodology & data security

Clinical Methodology

Aqueo's pre-screening is built on validated methods: the OSDI-6 questionnaire and blink pattern analysis. These tools provide standardized symptom scores and objective blink metrics to support triage and clinical conversations.

▸OSDI-6 questionnaire

The Ocular Surface Disease Index-6 (OSDI-6) is a validated, standardized tool for assessing dry eye symptoms. Aqueo automatically scores responses (0–24) and flags common cut-offs (e.g., ≥4 suggestive of DED; ≥9 may prompt consideration of Sjögren's work-up), where licensed.

▸Blink analysis

Aqueo's guided blink test uses the patient's device camera to estimate average blink interval, incomplete blink percentage, and simple quality indicators. These metrics provide additional context about tear film stability and blink behavior.

▸Decision-support only

Aqueo is designed as a decision-support tool for triage and workflow. It does not provide a diagnosis, does not prescribe treatment, and does not replace clinical judgment or in-person examination. Final decisions about diagnosis and management rest with the clinician.

Data & Security

Aqueo is built with privacy and security by design for Canadian eye care. We minimize identifiers, encrypt data, and host exclusively in Canada.

Canadian data residency – All clinical data is stored in AWS ca-central-1 (Canada Central).
Clinic as HIC – Your clinic remains the Health Information Custodian. Aqueo operates as your authorized agent/service provider.
Pseudonymous processing – Aqueo processes triage data without direct patient identifiers; clinics control linkage between test IDs and identities.
Encryption – All data is encrypted in transit (TLS) and at rest (SSE-KMS). Blink videos are stored in secured, access-controlled buckets with presigned URLs.
Retention – Clinical data is automatically moved to long-term encrypted storage and deleted after approximately 3 years via S3 lifecycle policies, unless your clinic requests earlier deletion where appropriate.
Contracts – Each clinic signs an Agent Agreement defining roles, responsibilities, retention, and breach notification procedures.

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Get started

Aqueo is currently in a closed pilot with select Canadian clinics. If you're interested in seeing how Aqueo could support your dry eye workflow, we'd be happy to connect.

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