Teleophthalmology: One Way To Help Span the Healthcare Disparity Divide | AAO 2023
Albert S. Khouri, M.D., a professor of ophthalmology at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, discusses teleophthalmology’s role in outreach efforts and improving ophthalmic care in the emergency room.
Telehealth’s chief attraction may be convenience, but Albert Khouri, M.D. says telehealth in ophthalmology — “teleophthalmology” — can help close the divisions of healthcare disparity and improve emergency room care.
Khouri, a professor of ophthalmology at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, was one of the instructors of an educational session on innovations in teleophthalmology yesterday at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology in San Francisco.
In an interview with Managed Healthcare Executive, Khouri describes an outreach program that connects eye health screenings with soup kitchen, community centers and places of worship with ophthalmologists who review the data that is collected and make recommendations.
Khouri also discusses a pilot project at his medical school that involves an ophthalmology station and evaluating patients in the emergency room with optical coherence tomography. The images are then reviewed remotely by an ophthalmologist.
The other instructors for the teleophthalmology educational session were April Y Maa, M.D., Andrew G. Lee, M.D., Roomasa Channa, M.D., David J. Ramsey, M.D.,and Lama A. Al-Aswad, M.D., M.P.H. The senior instructor was Gary L. Legault, M.D.
PHOTON Study of 8-mg Eylea Suggests Some Patients Could Be Treated Just Two Times a Year | AAO 2023
November 5th 2023Approximately one-third of the patients assigned to 16-week intervals of 8-mg formulation of Eylea changed to a 24-week interval during the second year of. the study, according results presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. The PHOTON study enrolled people with diabetic macular edema.
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