Can Commercially Available Handheld Retinal Cameras Effectively Screen Diabetic Retinopathy?

Organizations that care for people with diabetes have increasingly adopted telemedicine-based diabetic retinopathy screening (TMDRS) as a way to increase adherence to recommended retinal exams. Recently, handheld retinal cameras have emerged as a low-cost, lightweight alternative to traditional bulk...

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Published inJournal of diabetes science and technology Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 135 - 137
Main Authors Cuadros, Jorge, Bresnick, George
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.01.2017
Subjects
Diabetic Retinopathy - diagnosis
Humans
Mass Screening - instrumentation
Mass Screening - methods
Original
Photography - instrumentation
Photography - methods
Remote Consultation - instrumentation
Remote Consultation - methods
Retina - pathology
telemedicine
screening
camera
retinopathy
imaging
diabetes
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Summary:Organizations that care for people with diabetes have increasingly adopted telemedicine-based diabetic retinopathy screening (TMDRS) as a way to increase adherence to recommended retinal exams. Recently, handheld retinal cameras have emerged as a low-cost, lightweight alternative to traditional bulky tabletop retinal cameras. Few published clinical trials have been performed on handheld retinal cameras. Peer-reviewed articles about commercially available handheld retinal cameras have concluded that they are a usable alternative for TMDRS, however, the clinical results presented in these articles do not meet criteria published by the United Kingdom Diabetic Eye Screening Programme and the American Academy of Ophthalmology. The future will likely remedy the shortcomings of currently available handheld retinal cameras, and will create more opportunities for preventing diabetic blindness.
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ISSN:1932-2968
1932-2968
1932-3107
DOI:10.1177/1932296816682033