Eye Disease Detected - Using A Smartphone
Saturday, July 4, 2015 - 11:50
in Health & Medicine
Researchers at the Medical and Surgical Center for Retina have developed software that detects eye diseases such as diabetic macular edema using a smartphone. The technology was designed for general physicians who support the health system in Mexico to detect certain abnormalities without an ophthalmologist and send the patient to the specialist.It's obviously better and cheaper to prevent blindness rather than try to cure it so an app on a cellphone that just needs to focus on the eye is better in all ways. This is especially important in rural communities, where expertise areas such as ophthalmology won't be commonly available. read more