The VERA screening is the first software-driven multi-tiered vision screening program for educational use. VERA provides:

1. Up to 75% cost savings compared to dedicated routine screening devices

2. Greater accuracy and scope of screening

3. Time savings by reducing or eliminating transcription and record keeping of screening results

4. Standardization of testing independent of nurse skill level; no clinical skills for nurses to learn

5. Elimination of unnecessary testing beyond valid referral point (SmartScreen®)

6. The capability to automatically communicate screening results to eye doctors, parents, teachers and special educators and to instantly replace lost letters and reports

7. The capability for nurses to automatically follow up on unfulfilled vision referrals with parents

8. The capability to instantly create lists of unfulfilled referrals by age, grade or any screening criteria so that teachers and administration are aware of students who continue to have uncorrected routine vision problems

9. A visible indicator to the community of the school's contemporary health and educational initiative through attractive, professional reports and letters to parents and doctors

10. Identification of vision-related learning problems in students who can pass a routine vision screening without an expensive professional in attendance

11. An opportunity to delay or eliminate other special student assessments and to save expensive special education costs for many students

12. Protocols to assist visually deficient students.