Ophthalmic examination system and ophthalmic examination management server

An ophthalmic examination method comprising:

• performing an ophthalmic examination of an eye of a subject with an ophthalmic examination apparatus;
• receiving, by a selected at least one of an internal examiner terminal and an external examiner terminal, information concerning the ophthalmic examination of the eye of the subject from the ophthalmic examination apparatus, the internal examiner terminal being used by an internal examiner in a facility where the ophthalmic examination apparatus is installed and the external examiner terminal being used by an external examiner in another facility where the ophthalmic examination apparatus is not installed, the selected at least one of the internal examiner terminal and the external examiner terminal being selected based on a selected communication mode selected from a plurality of predetermined communication modes that control a current communication state of the internal examiner terminal and the external examiner terminal;
• selecting one of the plurality of predetermined communication modes based on the communication request;
• establishing communication, by a communication establishment circuitry, between the ophthalmic examination apparatus and the selected at least one of the internal examiner terminal and the external examiner terminal;
• and
• receiving, by a communication request receiving circuitry, a communication request from the ophthalmic examination apparatus;
• establishing, by the communication establishment circuitry, the communication between the ophthalmic examination apparatus and the selected at least one of the internal examiner terminal and the external examiner terminal based on the selected one of the plurality of predetermined communication modes and the communication request, the plurality of predetermined communication modes include a second mode in which the subject is receiving assistance from the external examiner terminal, a third mode in which the subject is receiving assistance from the internal examiner terminal, and a fourth mode in which the subject is receiving assistance from the internal examiner terminal and the external examiner terminal, each of the plurality of predetermined communication modes having a unique identifier;
• transmitting, as the communication, the information concerning the ophthalmic examination of the subject, from the ophthalmic examination apparatus to the selected at least one of the internal examiner terminal and the external examiner terminal;
• generating examination state information representing a completed phase of the ophthalmic examination;
• generating the communication request based on the examination state information generated by the examination state information generating circuitry;
• and
• sending the communication request generated by the communication request generating circuitry to a management apparatus.