Novartis, Google team up to bring “smart lens” tech to market

Published July 15, 2014 by TNJ Staff
Health & Fitness
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Such ?smart lenses? have the potential to transform not only how vision-related ailments are treated but how patients can track their own health.

Novartis NVS has teamed up with Google GOOG -1.17% to license its ?smart lens? technology for all eye-based medical uses, the companies announced Tuesday.

Novartis, which owns contact lens-maker Alcon, will collaborate with the Google[x] team, the secretive research unit within Google that initially developed the technology, to develop a ?smart lens? that has the potential to transform not only how vision-related ailments are treated but how patients can track their own health.

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