Wearable technology in future for glaucoma patients

SAN FRANCISCO — Wearable technology will empower glaucoma patients as telemedicine opportunities are advanced, according to Louis R. Pasquale, MD, director of the Teleretinal Program at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Boston.“I think it’s very wise to consider telemedicine as part of the ‘catalyst for a cure,’” Pasquale said in a presentation at the Glaucoma 360 New Horizons Forum. “What telemedicine is doing is converting medicine from a somewhat paternalistic organization to one that’s going to be patient intolerant. This is going to happen because patients will have access to inexpensive wearable technology — iPhone and smartphone technology — that will allow them to apply their data — high-quality data — and actually analyze it on their own terms and bring it back to the doctors.”