From the Boston Globe: Dr. Mark Horton has piloted a propeller plane miles into the Arizona desert and thousands of feet to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. It’s the only way the ophthalmologist gets to see some of his patients.
So when Horton’s employer, the Indian Health Service, partnered with the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston to roll out a telemedicine program to detect diabetic eye disease, he quickly recognized the scale of the opportunity. The Joslin camera snaps digital photographs of a patient’s retina — without needing to dilate their pupils — and the images are transmitted electronically to a trained reader in a central location.
“Theoretically,” Horton said, “you can [read the images] from home in your underwear.”
