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What is Telemedicine and How can it Help with Glaucoma Management - Gurjeet Jutley

 

24 August 2021

Telemedicine has evolved rapidly as a result of the pandemic and can be innovative way of delivering health care to select groups of patients from a distance virtually. 

Healthcare professionals can aid each other for advice and opinions worldwide, particularly enabling global teaching webinars to disseminate ideas and experiences. 

Hence, telemedicine a rapidly growing field that offers a multitude of potential benefits to patients and medical professionals alike. In this article, Gurjeet Jutley, Glaucoma Surgeon Oxford and team, discuss how telemedicine can benefit glaucoma patients.

Telemedicine is evolving, with an acceleration post pandemic. With improving technology, it can be a dynamic way to help all patients. It can be postulated that telemedicine will continue to be a prominent model to help deliver healthcare. Of course, it will be interesting to see what new technological developments will emerge to facilitate this.


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