SENSE MEDICAL Behind the brand

Abdul Jahangir, director, on the scope for AI, growing the team and new products

Brand’s origins

Sense Medical was formed out of a UK subsidiary for theJapanese company, Kowa February 2023 marked the start of a distributorship for Canon Medical ophthalmic eye care products in the UK and Ireland

Sense Medical is certified to ISO 13485 in Medical Devices Quality Management Systems.

What is the latest product or service that you have introduced through Sense Medical?

The product we launched in September, the Xephilio OCT-R1, will revolutionise two key markets: diabetic eye screening, and High Street optometry. Over the last few years, Canon has developed an optical coherence tomography (OCT) device that can do everything in one smaller footprint device that is easy to use.

Optometry practices don’t have the resource to spend a lot of time training individuals. What is needed is a product that will take care of everything. Canon’s artificial intelligence (AI) technology is going to be a gamechanger in eye care. Utilising this technology to make clinical diagnoses, they will be able to spend more time with their patient.

Do you see more of a role for AI in eye care?

AI is already in the vast majority of our technology, from MRI and CTscans to eye care. We have products that can take non-invasive OCT-A images and make an average of 800 scans captured to produce the best scan possible, removing the noise and disturbance that might occur during the acquisition. But we want to take AI one step further.

What is the biggest opportunity you see?

We are excited about what the future of AI can bring about. We are also excited to grow the market with Canon.

What are your aims for the next year?

We are investing in headcount and hiring more clinical engineers. We find that a client in a hospital, screening site, or practice, may have a technical challenge, but when engineers arrive, they may ask clinical questions that arise in their use of the device. We want our engineers to be able to answer both, which makes a unique hybrid of technical support staff who can work between technical support and translation of clinical knowledge.