Secure messaging vendor HealthLink has signed an agreement with eye health clinical communications platform Oculo to help improve the referral workflow between GPs and optometrists, and tackle some of the unmet need in screening and diagnosis for common diseases such as diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma.

Oculo is an initiative of the Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA), a not-for-profit medical research institute based at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, and was founded to address deficiencies in clinical communication between optometrists and ophthalmologists.