Ukti Vora, an optometrist and an podcaster, begins by explaining the current eyecare practices under one roof. We learn about how we can incorporate telemedicine. It’s going to be a hybrid healthcare delivery system going forward.
Telemedicine can be divided in to synchronous (live video conferencing) and asynchronous (store and forward) style.Ukti points out that most practitioners have practiced asynchronous and synchronous forms of telemedicine at some point or the other.
There are two types of health care delivery systems
- Physicians centric care
- Patient centric care
When we look into how to best implement telemedicine in our practice, we are trying to deliver our physician centric approach to a patient centric approach. We go through each step required transition to telemedicine
- Patient History/Intake form
- Preliminary test
- Pre-screening test
- Visual Acuity virtually
- Advanced testing
- Dispensing with virtual try-on
- Measuring pupillary distance
- Segment Height
- Other specialities
- Myopia screening
- Contact lenses
- Binocular vision screening
Towards the end of the talk we understand the advantages and limitations of implementing telemedicine in our practices. Ukti concludes with some important take aways from the session. We conclude the session with some very interesting question from the live audience.
References
Nerdy Optometrist
https://www.nerdyoptometrist.com/
Websites
Pre-screening tests online (telemedicine) from Stanford Medicine
Measuring pupillary distance online
https://www.eyebuydirect.com/downloads/measure-your-pd-with-ruler.pdf
LVPEI Centre for Innovation from L V Prasad Eye Institute: https://youtu.be/FdAp22rU8N4