Teleglaucoma: ready to go?
Telemedicine technologies and services allow today's ophthalmic clinicians to remotely diagnose, manage and monitor several ophthalmic conditions from a distance. But is this the case for glaucomas? There has been a proliferation of telemedicine friendly devices in recent years that improves the capabilities of the clinician in managing glaucomas. The existing instruments still need to align themselves with accepted industry standards. There are successful programmes running in several areas of the world. The safety and efficacy of these programmes needs further exploration. The inability of a single device or test to diagnose glaucomas satisfactorily has also hampered progress in remotely diagnosing these conditions. There is, however, significant potential for telemedicine-friendly devices to remotely monitor the progress of glaucoma and, thereby, reduce some of the workload on an overstretched health service.
NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, UK Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore, Singapore.
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Strouthidis
Institute of Ophthalmology, London, UK.
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Chandrasekharan
Bristol Eye Hospital, Bristol, UK.
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Diamond
Institute of Ophthalmology, London, UK.
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Murdoch
D003941:Diagnostic Techniques, Ophthalmological / Q000295:instrumentation; D005902:Glaucoma, Open-Angle / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007429:Intraocular Pressure; D013222:State Medicine; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D006113:United Kingdom
Intraocular Pressure; Optical Coherence; Remote Consultation; Telemedicine; Tomography