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Telemedicine: Opportunities and Challenges for the Remote Care of Diabetic Retinopathy
Arch Ophthalmol. 1999;117:1639-1640.
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THE CONCEPT of "telemedicine" encompasses more than just remote consultation on a physician-to-physician level. Significant other uses include patient and provider education, patient-provider communications, and methods to enhance patient access to care.1-2 Indeed, it may well be that these functions may offer the best use of telemedicine. Nevertheless, while telemedicine may ultimately have its greatest utility in these other arenas, most physicians today focus on remote-care methods as embodying telemedicine.
Within eye care, this concern with remote care has focused mostly on the use of telemedicine for fundus evaluation, generally for diabetic retinopathy.3 Several studies have evaluated the accuracy of photographs or digital images and their appropriateness for diagnosing or monitoring diabetic retinopathy.4-6 However, there has been no clear organizing framework or structure for how these images or attendant remote care systems should be evaluated or how such systems may ultimately be used. Before telemedicine can be used to provide . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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