Sheba Medical Center
Overview
Major Israeli teaching hospital (Tel Hashomer). Employs ari-leshno as a glaucoma specialist and head of the eye institute’s research-and-innovation unit. Has an internal AI center and an institutional pathway for funding entrepreneur-led healthcare projects out of clinical practice — the mechanism by which Ari is offering Saar/Guy a budget + green light for the visual-field-tracking startup.
Relationships
- ari-leshno — ophthalmologist; head of research and innovation at the eye institute.
- yael — resident in the eye institute; MVP developer for the visual-field tracking concept.
- zeiss — installed customer; Sheba operates Zeiss Forum (~$100K) plus the Humphrey perimeter and OCT instruments.
- kameleon — Sheba’s general patient-record system.
Notes
- Holds a multi-year archive of glaucoma visual-field exam data — both raw Excel exports and scanned PDFs — usable as training data for an OCR + tracking product.
- Currently developing internal AI tooling in parallel; per ari-leshno this is “the AI center, who knows when they’ll respond” — a slow internal process that an external team could plausibly out-deliver.
- Reference enterprise for chronic-disease longitudinal-tracking workflows (clinical-data-portability).
Mentioned in
- 2026-05-19-saar-leshno-glaucoma-data-tracking — funder, data source, and clinical reference for the proposed glaucoma-tracking partnership.