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S2E2: Automated Screening for Diabetic Retinopathy with Jennifer Lim, MD, UIC Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology Vice Chair The University of Illinois at Chicago and host Dr. Nick.

Before there was better access and availability of bandwidth and the internet it was a challenge to provide the best care to remote areas. Healthcare has improved the availability of specialists, although not universally, and as you will hear, it remains unevenly distributed and there’s much inequity in access for multiple reasons. Today we still have access issues driven by a lack of skilled resources in some areas but we do have the bandwidth that can allow for rapid sharing of data and communication and this can be used to address the challenges of access for the enormous number of chronic patients suffering from Diabetes who are at risk of diabetic retinopathy. There is so much potential for this AI image technology for other related diseases like macular degeneration and glaucoma, but for now, solving this one chronic but highly treatable disease, diabetic retinopathy is great news. This FDA-cleared system is able to autonomously detect Diabetic Retinopathy in a clinical setting in the space of minutes.

Your better pill to swallow is to find ways to incorporate these technologies into your clinical setting further distributing access to essential care and treatment in a population in most need of access and treatment.

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