Strouthidis, NG;
Chandrasekharan, G;
Diamond, JP;
Murdoch, IE;
(2014)
Teleglaucoma: ready to go?
Br J Ophthalmol
, 98
(12)
1605 - 1611.
10.1136/bjophthalmol-2013-304133.
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Abstract
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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Teleglaucoma: ready to go? |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2013-304133 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bjophthalmol-2013-304133 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 3.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ |
| Keywords: | Intraocular Pressure, Optical Coherence, Remote Consultation, Telemedicine, Tomography, Diagnostic Techniques, Ophthalmological, Glaucoma, Open-Angle, Great Britain, Humans, Intraocular Pressure, State Medicine, Telemedicine |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Institute of Ophthalmology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1459838 |
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