Heidelberg Engineering and Orbis have come together on board the Orbis Flying Eye Hospital during its latest program in Kigali, Rwanda, to announce the expansion of their collaboration in making educational content accessible to eyecare professionals worldwide and advancing clinical research for better patient outcomes.
As part of a newly announced clinical project in Lusaka, Zambia, Heidelberg Engineering will deploy its Anterion advanced multi-disciplinary imaging platform optimized for the anterior segment to support patient pre-op imaging and to generate data-driven evidence required for the integration of optical biometry into routine cataract surgery protocols.
The announcement was made in a recorded video conversation featuring Kfir Azoulay, managing director of Heidelberg Engineering, and Dr. Hunter Cherwek, vice president, clinical services and technologies, at Orbis International.
The recording was made on board the Orbis Flying Hospital, the world’s only fully accredited ophthalmic teaching hospital on board a plane. The conversation covered a range of topics, including:
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How Cybersight—Orbis’s free telemedicine and e-learning platform—is helping thousands of eyecare professionals around the world build their skills, with support from Heidelberg Engineering.
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How new technologies like artificial intelligence, telemedicine, and remote diagnostic tools are opening up access to quality eye care, especially in communities with limited resources.
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A look inside the Flying Eye Hospital’s project in Rwanda, where local medical teams gained valuable skills through hands-on training and virtual learning—both aboard the aircraft and at partner hospitals.
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The biggest challenges facing eye care in underserved regions, and how organizations can work together to ensure that life-changing treatments reach more people who need them.
This collaboration builds on a partnership in 2024, during which Heidelberg Engineering:
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Funded 4 high-impact Cybersight webinars, joined over 2,000 times by practitioners in countries including Afghanistan, Somalia, and Ukraine.
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Supported Orbis research into retinoblastoma showing that telemedicine significantly improves diagnosis and survival outcomes.
In 2025, Heidelberg Engineering said it continues to fund a new series of 4 live Cybersight training sessions. The next webinar will be:
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October 9, 2025, 1:00 PM UTC - Enhancing Cataract Surgery Outcomes with Surgical Technologies & Techniques (sign up here)
Details for the next sessions will be released on the Cybersight website.