Better Eye Care for Every Canadian Community
Ophanic Labs brings on-premise AI retinal analysis directly into Canadian optometry clinics — from downtown Toronto to rural Nova Scotia. No cloud. No data leaves your building. And clinics may recover up to 35% of costs through CRA SR&ED credits.
Canadian Communities Deserve World-Class Eye Care
From under-resourced rural clinics to overloaded urban practices, Canadian optometrists are stretched thin — and patients are paying the price.
Hours Lost to Manual Review
Reviewing OCT and fundus images by eye takes 15–25 minutes per patient. In small-town clinics already running lean, that bottleneck means longer wait times and fewer patients served.
Early Pathologies Going Undetected
Subtle AMD, early-stage glaucoma, and diabetic retinopathy affect Canadians disproportionately in communities with less specialist access. Human fatigue means findings get missed.
Cloud AI Puts Patient Privacy at Risk
Sending patient retinal data to U.S.-based cloud servers isn't just a PHIPA/PIPEDA violation waiting to happen — it erodes the trust Canadian patients place in their local clinic.
Deployed and Scanning in One Day
We handle all setup remotely. Whether your clinic is in Vancouver or Fredericton, your team is getting AI-assisted results the same day.
Deploy
We ship a pre-configured PC directly to your clinic anywhere in Canada and handle full remote setup. No IT team needed — integrates with your existing OCT or fundus camera workflow in under two hours.
Scan
Conduct your OCT or fundus imaging exactly as you do today. Ophanic Labs automatically ingests new scans from your device in real time — no workflow changes, no extra steps for staff.
Diagnose
AI-generated findings appear on-screen within 30 seconds — annotated images, severity flags, and structured reports ready for your clinical review and sign-off. You stay in control.
The Clinic Owns the Machine.
The Clinic Owns the Data.
Sending patient eye scans to a cloud server isn't just a technical decision — it's a legal and ethical one. A physical machine inside your clinic is the only approach that satisfies every obligation, eliminates third-party risk, and keeps ownership where it belongs: with you.
Contractual & Legal Requirements
PHIPA prohibits transmitting Personal Health Information outside Canada without explicit written patient consent. Most cloud AI vendors are U.S.-based — meaning every scan upload is a potential cross-border transfer that puts your clinic in violation.
- PHIPA & PIPEDA compliance built in by design, not by policy
- Clinic service agreements and insurer contracts often require on-premise data handling
- Cloud vendors routinely update their terms — clinics silently lose control
- On-premise: your legal obligations stay clear, fixed, and yours to control
Data Security
Cloud breaches expose tens of thousands of patient records in a single incident. When your data lives on shared infrastructure, your attack surface is everyone else's attack surface too.
- On-premise hardware is only as exposed as your clinic's physical security
- No API keys, shared tenancy, or third-party breach liability
- Network-isolated deployment — the inference machine can run fully offline
- No patient data traverses the internet at any point in the workflow
Data Governance
With cloud AI tools, your patients' scans may quietly become training data for the vendor's next model release. You have no audit trail, no deletion rights in practice, and no say in how the data is used.
- The clinic owns the model — it is a clinic asset, not a vendor product
- Full control over data retention periods and deletion schedules
- Complete audit trail of every scan, inference, and access event
- Governance posture already aligned with evolving Canadian health data regulations
- Patient data sent to U.S. servers
- Vendor owns the trained model
- Terms can change overnight
- Breach risk shared with thousands of clients
- Audit trails controlled by vendor
- PHIPA cross-border violations possible
- Data never leaves the clinic
- Clinic owns the trained model
- No external dependencies or changing terms
- Physical machine — isolated attack surface
- Full audit control in your hands
- PHIPA & PIPEDA compliant by design
Canadian Clinics Can Recover Up to 35% of R&D Costs
Canada's Scientific Research & Experimental Development (SR&ED) program lets Canadian-Controlled Private Corporations (CCPCs) claim a 35% refundable federal tax credit on qualifying R&D expenditures — including the hours your Canadian team spends evaluating and integrating new diagnostic technology like Ophanic Labs.
- Staff and contractor hours working with the AI system may qualify
- Eligible expenditures include salaries, materials, and equipment
- Credits are refundable — CRA issues a cheque even with no tax owing
- We provide SR&ED documentation packages to support your claim
Tax Credit
for CCPCs
Built for Canadian Clinics. Open to Partners.
Clinic Owners & Optometrists
Give every patient — whether they're in a busy city practice or a community clinic hours from the nearest specialist — access to the same AI-powered diagnostic precision.
- AI flagging of AMD, glaucoma & diabetic retinopathy
- On-premise hardware — 100% PHIPA/PIPEDA compliant
- Ships anywhere in Canada — same-day remote setup
- SR&ED credit documentation included
Help Us Reach Every Province
We're building a national network of Canadian optometry clinics and looking for strategic partners, distributors, and investors who believe in privacy-first healthcare AI built for Canadians, by Canadians.
- 14,000+ optometrists across Canada — large addressable market
- Recurring SaaS + hardware partnership model
- Differentiated IP: on-premise inference, not cloud-reliant
- Contact us for investment deck & data room access
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