Executive Summary

Sight loss is rising as populations age: an estimated 3.6 million people in the target OECD markets currently live with vision impairment from causes such as AMD, diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma, and many face fragmented care, delayed referrals, and insufficient community support that drive preventable decline, social isolation and higher downstream costs. Health systems, payers, patients and unpaid caregivers all bear the burden of poor coordination and limited capacity for proactive outreach. You could build an AI-enabled care-coordination and community support platform that digitizes screening, risk scoring and triage, orchestrates referrals to community services and low-vision rehab, integrates with EHRs and clinician workflows, and measures functional outcomes to support outcomes-based contracting. With an addressable digitizable support cost of roughly $1,500 per person per year, the implied market opportunity is about $5.4 billion; the Market Score is 90/100 and Revenue Potential 82/100. Revenue models could include SaaS to health systems and payers, per-referral fees and value-sharing for avoided downstream costs. This market is attractive now because demographic trends and the shift to community-based care are creating demand for scalable remote triage and coordination, and advances in AI-enabled screening can meaningfully reduce clinic burden. To stand out against a medium-competition landscape you would need clinically validated algorithms, deep local resource mapping, strong interoperability, and payer/health system partnerships; key challenges are data quality, regulatory and reimbursement hurdles, and clinician adoption, all of which require upfront investment and rigorous validation rather than quick wins.

Market Opportunity

Rising sight loss: AI care-coordination and community support plan targets a $5.4B = 3.6M people with sight loss in target OECD markets x $1,500 potential annual digitizable support cost per person total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 12% (digital chronic care / remote care services growth estimate).

Key trends driving demand: Aging populations -- increases prevalence of AMD and other causes of sight loss, growing demand for coordinated long-term support; Shift to community care -- pressure to treat/manage outside hospitals creates need for referral and coordination platforms; AI-enabled screening & triage -- automated risk scoring reduces clinic burden and enables proactive intervention; Charity-government partnerships -- charities (RNIB) and health systems are collaborating more, enabling integrated solutions.

Key competitors include RNIB (Royal National Institute of Blind People), Peek Vision, Eyenuk (EyeArt), Tunstall Healthcare (telecare and remote monitoring), NHS / local authority workarounds (spreadsheets, helplines, manual referral).

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Rising sight loss: AI care-coordination and community support plan

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