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Visibly provides on-line vision tests and generates eyeglasses and contact lens prescriptions for site visitors, delivering these results via email within one day of the completion of the exam. The results of the exam are reviewed by an optometrist, are considered valid prescriptions, and may be used
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510(k) clearance for its mobile-based vision test preferably to provide prescription renewals to people between 22 and 40. Visibly became the first FDA-cleared online vision test in the United States. In
January 2024, Visibly merged with EyecareLive and launched real-time video consultations.
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As of 2019, 39 US states allow optometrists to issue prescriptions over the
Internet. Some states, however, have attempted to ban the company from doing business. In 2016, for example, the state of Indiana passed a law prohibiting the use of on-line eye exams for the issuance of eyeglasses
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prescriptions for the production of any "ophthalmic device". Visibly filed suit against the state in April 2019, claiming that the incorporation of ophthalmic devices in the telehealth ban— which also included abortion drugs and
376:"Enforcement Policy for Remote Ophthalmic Assessment and Monitoring Devices During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) : Public Health Emergency Guidance for Industry and Food and Drug Administration Staff"
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The company as founded as
Opternative in 2012 and its online vision test was launched in 2015. In November 2018, the company raised $ 9 million and changed its name from Opternative to Visibly the following month.
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