He comes to Spain the first telemedicine project in optics for the prevention of blindness.
Comes to Spain the first telemedicine project in optics for the prevention of blindness. 80% of the blindness in Spain are avoidable. -OPTretina is the first network of optical optometrists and retinologos for the prevention and screening of diseases of the retina -OPTretina was created with the support of the official College of opticians optometrists and optical Optometrists in Catalonia, the College of opticians Optometrists of the Valencian Community, the Spanish Federation of diabetic patients (FEDE), the Catalan Association of diabetics, the Asturian Association of retinitis pigmentosa, the Association of visually impaired of Catalonia and official school of optometry of the Region of Murcia Barcelona, February 2013.- currently 39 million people in the world suffer from blindness, and about some 70,000 in Spain. With this data in hand and with the aim of responding to the social need of accelerating the process of detection of eye diseases to prevent possible blindness, was born OPTretina, the first network of optical optometrists for prevention of diseases of the retina that gives society a new tool for screening of retinal diseases: telemedicine in optical. The network, formed by a group of expert retinologos, and more than 50 optical uses, pioneer in our country, the telemedicine to diagnose possible disease of the retina through the optics. Currently a patient had to go to their primary care (CAP) or referral hospital centre where a...
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