Test your eyes - with your iPhone

Posted By Evgeny Morozov Friday, November 20, 2009 - 2:03 PM Share

An Indian eye hospital is piloting software that will push to doctors' iPhones retinal images collected from patients in remote locations.

Doctors can then quickly send their diagnosis and recommendations from their iPhones, said Anand Vinekar, project coordinator and pediatric retinal surgeon at the Narayana Nethralaya Postgraduate Institute of Ophthalmology in Bangalore.

...To improve its reach in rural and semi-urban areas, the hospital trained people to take eye images using a wide-angle retinal digital camera, with 130 degrees field of view. These people, who were not doctors or technicians, were also trained to make a preliminary diagnosis, Vinekar said.

Once the hospital started using images for a diagnosis, the doctors did not have to go to the rural locations every time for diagnosis, he added.

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7:33 AM ET

November 21, 2009

Here in Japan,

Here in Japan, newspapers/magazines play down the importance of Information Technology; some news commentators who are well-known in Japan even do not bother to surf the Net to gather information, because they do not have cellular phones or personal computers.

I wonder what they fail to know every day just because they do not like the Net.