Aeye Health announced the expanded deployment across the country of its integration with Epic, an electronic medical record (EMR) platform. With this improved integration dedicated to portable artificial intelligence (AI) screening, health care providers can now order exams and receive results in real time, enabling diabetic retinopathy (DR) screenings in under 1 minute directly within the Epic EMR, the company said in a press release. 

Deployed across hospitals and health care systems using Epic, this enhanced integration allows primary care providers, endocrinologists, and diabetes centers to perform on-the-spot diabetic eye exams without physician interpretation, supporting HEDIS measures, the company said in the press release. In addition, it is fully reimbursable under CPT code 92229, the first-ever AI-specific reimbursement code in the US, the company said. 

Through this integration, health care providers can also order an AI diabetic retinopathy exam directly from the patient chart. A nurse or medical assistant captures a single retinal image per eye using a portable camera integrated with Aeye-DS, and results are automatically returned to the patient's medical record within seconds. When signs of disease are detected, an automated alert is sent to ophthalmology for timely follow-up. The entire process—from order to results—takes less than 1 minute. Full automation of reimbursement code billing and care gap reporting is also supported, the company said. RP