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Eagle Eye EMR · Software for African Eye Clinics

An EMR built inside an African eye clinic – not for one.

Eagle Eye EMR is a complete electronic medical record and practice management system for ophthalmology, developed in live daily operation at the Eagle Eye Laser Centre Nairobi – shaped by the surgeons, nurses, optometrists and front-office teams who use it every day.

Why another EMR?

Most practice-management systems are designed in Europe or the US and then adapted for African markets – with licence models, hardware requirements and workflows that rarely match reality on the ground. Eagle Eye EMR took the opposite path: it was created step by step inside a busy self-pay refractive and cataract clinic in Nairobi, with every module requested, tested and refined by the clinical team itself.

The result is a system that reflects how an African eye clinic actually works: fast patient throughput, mixed clinical and optical services, cash-based and insurance billing side by side, team communication instead of paper notes, and regulatory documentation ready for inspection.

What’s inside

Patient records & intake

Guided intake wizard, full ophthalmic encounter documentation, preliminary exam workflows, department queues.

Refractive & cataract surgery

Theatre notes, consent forms with finger signature, laser and lens surgery documentation.

Optical module

Spectacle prescriptions, optical shop workflow, branded A6 prescription printing.

IVOM / OCT & retina

Injection cycles, OCT documentation, follow-up tracking.

Billing & stock

Receipts, billing workflows, stock management, end-of-month reporting.

Team communication

Internal messaging with read receipts, team tasks, staff presence, employee recognition.

Patient feedback

Category-based patient ratings, QR-linked feedback page on receipts.

Compliance & security

SOPs, risk assessment and DPIA built in; private storage with signed URLs; full access log; FHIR import/export.

AI assistance

Integrated help chatbot with voice input and AI-supported commands and automations.

Runs on what you have

Fully web-based – works on existing PCs, tablets and phones. No server room, no IT department required.

See it in action

Real screenshots from live clinical use at the Eagle Eye Laser Centre Nairobi:

Eagle Eye EMR – live clinic dashboard
Live clinic dashboard: patients in clinic, reviews due, drafts, tomorrow’s list, finance & intake QR
Eagle Eye EMR – theatre note
Theatre notes: procedure, surgeon, eye and anaesthesia in a few taps
Eagle Eye EMR – IOL documentation
Structured IOL documentation: manufacturer, model, power, lens type, toric axis & placement
Eagle Eye EMR – patient self check-in QR
Patient self check-in: one-time QR, waiting number, bilingual history form (English/Kiswahili)
Eagle Eye EMR – quick actions grid
Quick actions: consent, prescriptions, stock, payroll, statistics, finance copilot, patient SMS & more
Eagle Eye EMR – structured encounter
Structured encounter: examination charting, fundus diagram, diagnoses, medication & plan

Proven in daily use

Eagle Eye EMR runs the complete daily operation of the Eagle Eye Laser Centre in Lavington, Nairobi – from the first phone call to surgery documentation, billing and quality monitoring – and supports its partner location. It is developed continuously, with new features driven directly by staff suggestions from the clinic floor.

About the developer

Dr. Harald C. Gäckle is a German refractive surgeon and pioneer of modern refractive surgery in East Africa – the first surgeon in Kenya to perform FemtoLASIK, CLEAR lenticule extraction, femto-cataract surgery, multifocal lens and phakic ICL implantation. He founded and directs the Eagle Eye Laser Centre Nairobi and develops clinical software including the Refractive Planning Suite.

Interested in Eagle Eye EMR for your clinic? Contact via the Eagle Eye Laser Centre, Lavington, Nairobi – or through dr-gaeckle.vision.