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Virtual glaucoma clinic in Wales
Author(s) -
MORGAN JE
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
acta ophthalmologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.534
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1755-3768
pISSN - 1755-375X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-3768.2014.2722.x
Subject(s) - computer science , flexibility (engineering) , glaucoma , software , task (project management) , medicine , medical emergency , ophthalmology , operating system , engineering , statistics , mathematics , systems engineering
The effective clinical review of increasing numbers of glaucoma patients remains a major challenge. To meet this, we have developed a virtual clinic review module using the OpenEyes electronic medical record for Ophthalmology. OpenEyes is Open Source and browser‐based, allowing considerable flexibility in where patients are seen. The virtual clinic module allows the review of condensed data for any given patient and acts as a link to a summary containing patient visual fields, clinical diagnosis and IOP data. Data are collected by technicians appointed at a level appropriate to the task. Patient data are then reviewed by the supervising clinician. To date the system has been used to managed over 100,000 visual field examinations and 11,000 patient events on over 3,500 patients. The data handling requirements for modern browser based applications (LINUX, Apache, MySQL, PHP) are low, ensuring a rapid data refresh and robust data curation. OpenEyes is highly scaleable and can be run over fixed or wireless networks to provide clinical data provision at the point of care regardless of geographic location. It is available royalty free and provides a firm foundation for collaborative software development.