Space health: From space missions to remote clinics: Technologies bringing care closer

An initiative by Mission Servants Ministry, including Dr. Randall Thomas, O.D., FAAO, MPH, brings vision care services through PlenOptika to families in rural Uganda.

A new blog post from Baylor College of Medicine’s TRISH program highlights how PlenOptika’s QuickSee Free and QuickSee Free Pro devices — originally developed with space health research support — are now expanding access to eye care in remote clinics and disaster settings around the world, having been deployed in more than 65 countries and used on the Polaris Dawn mission. The piece features insights from CEO Shivang R Dave on how space-driven innovation is helping meet the needs of the one billion people worldwide living with uncorrected refractive error. Read the story at: https://blogs.bcm.edu/2026/07/02/from-space-missions-to-remote-clinics-technologies-bringing-care-closer/

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