Das Taraprasad, Raman Rajiv, Ramasamy Kim, Rani Padmaja Kumari
L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Middle East Afr J Ophthalmol. 2015 Apr-Jun;22(2):174-8. doi: 10.4103/0974-9233.154391.
Telemedicine is exchange of medical data by electronic telecommunications technology that allows a patient's medical problems evaluated and monitored by a remotely located physician. Over the years, telemedicine and telescreening have become important components in health care, in both disease detection and treatment. Highly visual and image intensive ophthalmology is uniquely suited for telemedicine. Because of rising disease burden coupled with high opportunity cost in detection, diabetic retinopathy is an ideal ophthalmic disease for telescreening and decision-making. It fits to Wilson and Jungner's all 10 criteria of screening for chronic diseases and the American Telehealth Association's 4 screening categories.
远程医疗是通过电子通信技术交换医疗数据，使患者的医疗问题能够由远程医生进行评估和监测。多年来，远程医疗和远程筛查已成为医疗保健中疾病检测和治疗的重要组成部分。高度依赖视觉和图像的眼科尤其适合远程医疗。由于疾病负担不断增加以及检测中的机会成本高昂，糖尿病视网膜病变是远程筛查和决策的理想眼科疾病。它符合威尔逊和荣格纳关于慢性病筛查的所有10项标准以及美国远程医疗协会的4种筛查类别。
