Lions Outback Vision announced as winner of The Challenge
25 October 2024
Lions Outback Vision has been announced as the winner of the $5 million Pilbara healthcare initiative ‘The Challenge’.
Lions Outback Vision overcame a field of 93 entries and 10 finalists to emerge as the winner of The Challenge, a global callout for innovators to brainstorm, collaborate and ultimately establish a ground-breaking solution to revolutionise health care in the Pilbara.
Professor Angus Turner, the lead of Lion Outback Vision’s Eye screening powered by artificial intelligence to transform primary care project, accepted the award alongside fellow team members Christine Stott and Alex Ramirez. The AI scanner plans to target remote and isolated Indigenous communities to improve accessibility to eye checks, and Professor Turner also hoped eye checks using AI would become a standard procedure in primary care, as they can detect other diseases that may be occurrin...
