AI paired with the technological advances of automated and robotic fundus cameras will be a catalyst for change.
These technologies hold the potential to take specialist-level eye screening into primary care, pharmacies and preclinical spaces, reaching out to people in low-resource settings and underserved areas, to rapidly detect and manage a wide range of ocular and systemic conditions. I am a cardiothoracic surgeon, and the possibility to assess cardiovascular disease from the eye fascinates me, along with the potential to detect neurological disease, kidney disease, preeclampsia and, of