Construction of Low Cost Remote Controlled Slit Lamp (R/C S/L) in Order to Provide Teleophthalmology Services to Rural Areas and Islands
Iordanis Chatziangelidis · Advances in Ophthalmology & Visual System · 2014
people living on a pension of €300, traveling is difficult, particularly if they have chronic health problems.Cost is increased by the fact that most of them will be accompanied by younger relatives, leading also to lost human hours of productive age people in commuting.Teleophthalmology can provide services to remotely located people, providing emergency, screening and follow-up ophthalmological services.As much of the portable technology is already commercially available, from refraction, to clinical examination, and fundus photography, we had to complete with the gold standard of any ophthalmological examination, the slit lamp.