AI could help spot warning signs of eye disease quicker—and reach patients at scale by bringing world-leading expertise from around the world into the community.
has been the busiest of all the medical specialties in the UK’s National Health Service in terms of clinical appointments. Nearly 10 percent of all NHS outpatient appointments are related toproblems. That’s nearly 10 million appointments per year, and that number has risen by more than a third in the past five years.
Between the ages of 18 and 65, the main cause of blindness is diabetic eye disease. But the population is getting older, and we’re also seeing an increasing prevalence of diseases like age-related macular degeneration . That's the most common cause of blindness. Aestimated that 25.3 percent of people in Europe who are above the age of 60 have early signs of AMD.
Ophthalmologists are struggling to see and treat all these patients. Unfortunately, that means that many are going blind because of delays in diagnosis and treatment. All the evidence suggests that early detection and treatment equals safe sight. Technology can mitigate these challenges. New eye scanners called optical coherence tomography devices are being deployed in every optometry practice, such as your local Specsavers or Vision Express. These advanced scanners can take really high-resolution images of the retina in a noninvasive way.
This is promising but also presents a challenge. Community optometrists don’t always have expertise to analyze OCT scans, so they are currently over-referring patients to eye hospitals, which further contributes to the burden.
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