A clearer view of your dry eye patients — before they arrive.
Digital pre-screening built for Canadian clinics.
Standardized DEQ-5 scores and optional blink metrics delivered before the visit to support triage and more focused dry eye appointments.
Key benefits for your clinic
Save time & streamline triage
Reduce intake time by collecting dry eye symptom scores and optional blink metrics before the visit. Less chair-time for history taking, more time for examination and counselling.
Standardized, evidence-based inputs
Aqueo uses the DEQ-5 questionnaire and optional 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
Before the visit
Your patient receives a secure link to complete a short DEQ-5 questionnaire and an optional guided blink test on their own device.
Automated scoring
Aqueo processes responses and blink video to generate standardized DEQ-5 scores and blink metrics (e.g., blink interval, incomplete blink rate).
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 DEQ-5 and optional blink metrics |
| Symptom burden often undocumented or inconsistent | Standardized, comparable symptom scores for each patient |
| Blink behavior rarely assessed | Optional blink pattern metrics available at a glance |
| More admin time for history-taking | Less intake overhead, more time for examination and counselling |
Clinical methodology
Aqueo's pre-screening is built on validated methods: the DEQ-5 questionnaire and optional blink pattern analysis. These tools provide standardized symptom scores and objective blink metrics to support triage and clinical conversations.
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.
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.