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Teleglaucoma: ready to go?

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. Green open access

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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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