"Deployment and extensive use of information technology alone can bridge the gap between urban and rural eye care and one of the effective tools could be tele-ophthalmology," S.S. Badrinath, Chairman, Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, said here on Friday.
Screening and treatment of patients in remote rural areas would be possible through IT applications and hence the focus should be on IT-penetration in rural areas.
Speaking to reporters at the inauguration of a three-day national workshop on `IT applications in eye care,' he said tele-ophthalmology was making it possible to extend quality eye care in villages.
Two eye care majors in the State — Sankara Nethralaya and Aravind Eye Care System — are jointly organising the workshop under the auspices of Vision 2020-The Right to Sight India, a national organisation. According to Dr. Badrinath, IT gains relevance in all aspects of ophthalmology from management to diagnosis and it is very important in the scenario of swelling cases of diabetic retinopathy across the country.
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