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Review
. 2015 Apr-Jun;22(2):174-8.
doi: 10.4103/0974-9233.154391.

Telemedicine in diabetic retinopathy: current status and future directions

Taraprasad Das  1 , Rajiv Raman  2 , Kim Ramasamy  3 , Padmaja Kumari Rani  1
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Review

Telemedicine in diabetic retinopathy: current status and future directions

Taraprasad Das et al. Middle East Afr J Ophthalmol. 2015 Apr-Jun.

Abstract

Telemedicine is exchange of medical data by electronic telecommunications technology that allows a patient's medical problems evaluated and monitored by a remotely located physician. Over the years, telemedicine and telescreening have become important components in health care, in both disease detection and treatment. Highly visual and image intensive ophthalmology is uniquely suited for telemedicine. Because of rising disease burden coupled with high opportunity cost in detection, diabetic retinopathy is an ideal ophthalmic disease for telescreening and decision-making. It fits to Wilson and Jungner's all 10 criteria of screening for chronic diseases and the American Telehealth Association's 4 screening categories.

Keywords: Diabetic Retinopathy; Screening; Telemedicine.

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Conflict of Interest: None declared.

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Current status of telescreening in diabetic retinopathy
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