Bausch + Lomb launches iPhone app

Bausch + Lomb has introduced a free iPhone application that will test a patient's visual acuity and colour vision, enable them to learn more about cataracts and Crystalens and find a suitable surgeon.

The Crystalens iClear iPhone app features a "doc finder", offers a "Picture Hunt" game and provides information on other Bausch + Lomb Crystalens products.

The company claim the app, available in iPhone App Stores, will educate patients and surgeons alike on the significance of vision correction procedures.

The firm has also announced that it will offer Crystalens patients, who have received the implant in the US before 31 March 2011, a $250 rebate.