MUMBAI: At the Shantilal Shanghvi Eye Institute in Mumbai, an eye scan using a smartphone could help save a patient’s sight.<\/p>\n
The hospital has incorporated artificial intelligence into its community outreach programme to identify patients from nearby slums who need specialist eye care.<\/p>\n
Within seconds, an image of a patient’s retina is analysed and the technology detects possible early signs of conditions such as glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy.<\/p>\n
It is one example of how India is using AI to improve access to healthcare, particularly in places where specialists are harder to reach.<\/p>\n
LESS SPECIALIST TRAINING REQUIRED<\/p>\n
The AI eye screening tool, developed by Bengaluru-based medical device company Remidio, enables healthcare workers with less specialist training to carry out the initial assessment.<\/p>\n
“The game-changer in terms of AI is we have been able to task shift the screening process to less-trained people, who can use the AI to triage people who require the ophthalmologist’s opinion,” said Shantilal Shanghvi Eye Institute\u2019s head of public health Radhika Krishnan.<\/p>\n
“That way,\u00a0we are able to reach a much larger population who could be triaged regularly and referred for treatment or further evaluation.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MUMBAI: At the Shantilal Shanghvi Eye Institute in Mumbai, an eye scan using a smartphone could help save…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[363,134,527,2344,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-527122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-india","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}