Cybersight - Telemedicine | Orbis

Through Cybersight, we provide free webinars, training courses, mentorship, and even AI screenings to eye care teams around the world. For more than 20 years, Cybersight has helped break down the barriers that prevent eye care professionals from accessing training and specialist support, particularly in low‑ and middle‑income countries.

Today, it connects a truly global community of eye care professionals, delivering free education and mentorship to places where in‑person training is often out of reach. All you need is a mobile phone or a laptop with an internet connection.

*Cybersight's lifetime impact

Cybersight is used by eye care professionals in almost every country and territory on the planet, even places like Sudan, Syria, and Ukraine, where conflict has made access to training even more difficult.

More than 140,000 users, including 15% of the world’s ophthalmologists, now rely on the platform—making it the largest and most established digital learning and mentorship environment in global eye health— offered entirely free of charge.

It supports everyone involved in eye care, including ophthalmologists, optometrists, ophthalmic nurses, biomedical engineers, residents in training, and all other eye health professionals. 

As access to training improves, patient care improves too. Cybersight supports better clinical decision‑making and ultimately increases access to quality eye care for people who need it most.

One of Cybersight’s most powerful features is its ability to connect clinicians with expert mentors anywhere in the world when they need support the most.

Through the platform, eye care professionals can get the expert advice and opinion they need for complex patient cases from Orbis Volunteer Faculty. This long‑distance mentorship provides access to specialist advice that would otherwise be unavailable. 

Cybersight even supports live surgical mentorship, where a world-leading expert can walk a fellow ophthalmologist through surgery using a live video link from the other side of the world. By supporting clinical decision‑making in real time, Cybersight helps clinicians manage difficult cases with greater confidence—improving outcomes for patients and strengthening local care long after the consultation ends.

What began over a decade ago with a single webinar and fewer than 100 participants has grown into a truly global classroom. Since 2016, Cybersight has hosted nearly 900 live webinars for more than 200,000 attendees, connecting clinicians with world‑class experts regardless of location. 

Today, Cybersight webinars regularly reach thousands of participants at once. A recent session welcomed more than 1,800 attendees from 138 countries, including places with very limited access to eye care education. 

Webinars are delivered by Orbis Volunteer Faculty and other world leading specialists, offering practical, relevant learning that clinicians can apply directly in their own settings. Live sessions allow for real‑time questions and discussion, while recordings remain available on demand.

Cybersight offers a wide range of free online courses designed to support ongoing professional development across eye care. Courses are developed by international experts and cover clinical, surgical, and public health topics. 

They combine structured learning with practical resources, including surgical videos, case studies, and assessments. Many courses are available in languages other than English, including Vietnamese, Chinese, Mongolian, Portuguese, and Spanish—with French and Arabic courses to be launched shortly —helping reduce barriers to learning. 

The platform also serves as a living library of eye care knowledge, with nearly 2,000 training resources freely available to current and future generations of eye health professionals.

Orbis is the only global eyecare nonprofit with its own AI platform, Cybersight AI. Cybersight AI uses artificial intelligence to support early detection of eye disease, helping eye care teams identify patients who need further assessment or referral in an instant.

This increases the likelihood of a patient attending for follow-up care. The AI screening tool analyses retinal images to flag signs of conditions such as diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma. It is designed to support clinicians, particularly in settings where access to specialists is limited, and to help extend screening services to more people. 

By combining human expertise with responsible use of technology, Cybersight helps eye care teams reach patients sooner—when treatment can make the greatest difference. 

Screening for eye disease using Cybersight AI is underway in Vietnam, Bangladesh, South Africa, Mongolia, and Rwanda with plans to grow Cybersight’s AI tools over the coming years. Watch this space.

In 2025 alone, the platform welcomed 1.2 million website visitors—a 70% increase on the previous year—reflecting the growing demand for accessible, high‑quality eye care training worldwide. 

From pioneering tele‑education before it was widely adopted, to building a global learning community that now spans more than 140,000 professionals, Cybersight continues to redefine what’s possible in eye care training. And as clinicians’ skills grow, so does access to quality eye care for the communities they serve. 

We’d like to thank our supporters and partners who, like us, believe that innovation and technology can help expand access to quality eye care.