Introduction Rural populations bear a disproportionate burden of preventable vision loss due to scant ophthalmic resources, long travel distances, and delayed diagnoses of vision threatening conditions such as diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, and age-related macular degeneration. Teleophthalmology leveraging portable imaging devices, data connectivity, and remote interpretation, offers a critical solution by bringing diagnostic capabilities to underserved communities and enabling earlier intervention before irreversible vision loss occurs.
Gurnani et al. (Wed,) studied this question.