AMA: Look to Ophthalmology for a Glimpse of Telemedicine’s Future
08/31/2021
Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, ophthalmology struggled to adapt to telemedicine. It just wasn’t set up for virtual visits.
“Ophthalmology is an exam-heavy specialty, and we really rely on all the clinical clues that we capture—either at the slit lamp, or looking at the retina, or checking people’s vision and their eye movements—and those things don’t readily replicate into a telemedicine environment,” said Grayson W. Armstrong, MD, MPH, a Boston ophthalmologist in a recent episode of the “AMA Moving Medicine” video series.