Systems and methods for assisting individuals to access eye health examinations

A system for providing eye health examinations, comprising:

• a plurality of diagnostic centres, wherein the diagnostic centres are configured to:
• transmit, to a network of eye-care practitioners, requests to administer eye examinations for customers;
• receive, over the network, instructions to remotely control operation of ophthalmic equipment according to administration of one or more tests pertaining to the eye examinations;
• and
• generate customer examination data pertaining to the one or more tests administered using the ophthalmic equipment;
• a plurality of practitioner devices associated with respective eye-care practitioners of the network of eye-care practitioners, wherein the practitioner devices are configured to:
• receive the customer examination data in response to accepting one or more of the requests associated with administering the eye examinations;
• display the received customer examination data;
• and
• generate customer evaluation data associated with the one or more accepted requests;
• at least one server configured to:
• in response to receiving the requests from the diagnostic centres, select eye-care practitioners from the network of eye-care practitioners for handling the requests based on the practitioner data, wherein the practitioner data includes one or more of the following:
• availability data indicating whether the selected eye-care practitioners are currently connected to the system and available to administer eye examinations;
• scheduling data indicating days and hours that the selected eye-care practitioners are available to handle the requests;
• and
• prior customer data that identifies customers who utilized the selected eye-care practitioners for prior eye examinations;
• receive the customer examination data from the diagnostic centres;
• transmit the customer examination data to the practitioner devices associated with the selected eye-care practitioners;
• and
• receive customer evaluation data from the practitioner devices associated with the selected eye-care practitioners;
• wherein eye health reports based, at least in part, on the selected eye-care practitioners' review and evaluation of the customer examination data are provided to the customers.