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Your patient brought an Ocufuse brief
A short guide for ophthalmologists, optometrists, orthoptists and GPs: what the brief contains, where the data comes from, and how to read it.
What Ocufuse is
Ocufuse is a consumer journal app. Patients use it to take standardised photos of their eyes on their own phone, log context such as sleep, caffeine, screen time and eye drops, and note how their eyes felt. It is not intended for diagnosis or treatment, makes no diagnostic claims, and does not produce clinical measurements.
Patients typically use it to bring a dated visual history to an appointment, especially for problems that come and go and may not be present during the visit.
What a Doctor Brief contains
| Section | Content | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Photo timeline | Photos from guided capture: straight ahead, looking left, looking right and looking up, with date and time | Patient's phone camera |
| How it felt | The patient's own ratings and symptom notes, with times | Self-reported |
| Context | Caffeine, sleep, screen time, smoking or vaping, eye drops and other events, with the time the patient set | Self-reported |
| Practice log | Which exercises or focus games were done and when | Recorded by the app |
| Notes | Free text from the patient, such as questions for you | Self-reported |
The patient chooses the date range and what to include. Briefs can be printed, sent as text, or exported as a CSV file of entries.
How patients share it
- The patient exports the brief and gives it to you directly: on paper, on screen, or by email.
- There are no clinician accounts and no portal. You cannot see a patient's Ocufuse account.
- Ocufuse does not connect to electronic health records.
- Once you receive a brief, handle it under your own professional and data protection obligations, like any other information a patient brings.
Reading it with care
Limits to keep in mindPhotos are taken on consumer phones without calibration. Lighting, distance, head position, camera lens and phone model all change how eyes appear. Differences between photos may come from capture conditions rather than the eye.
- Guided capture shows on-screen framing to keep photos consistent, but it can't guarantee identical conditions.
- Any alignment overlays or values shown in the app are visual aids for the patient. They are not validated measurements and should not be read as prism dioptres or degrees.
- Symptoms and context are self-reported and may be incomplete. Patients choose which photos to keep.
- The app does not flag findings as normal or abnormal and does not suggest diagnoses.
We suggest treating a brief like a patient's own photos and diary: useful context for your history-taking and examination, not a substitute for them.
Become an Ocufuse provider
Clinics that recommend Ocufuse to patients can register as a provider. You'll get printable patient leaflets and a sample Doctor Brief to share, early access to clinic features as we build them, and a direct line to the team for feedback. Registration is free and takes a minute.
There is still no clinician portal and you will not see patient accounts. Patients always choose what to share with you.
Recommending Ocufuse
If you think a consistent photo diary would help a patient, you are welcome to suggest Ocufuse. Ocufuse is free to start, and patients can record exercises you prescribe in the Practice log. Please give them your instructions directly, since Ocufuse does not prescribe or adjust exercises.
Feedback from clinicians
We would like to hear what makes a brief more useful in practice: layout, content, export formats, or anything that gets in the way. Use the form on our support page and choose "I'm a clinician", or email hello@ocufuse.com.
Please don't send identifiable patient information.