KOLOA, Hawaii — Self-operated home diagnostic devices together with digital health care providers can help close the care gap between office visits for patients with age-related macular degeneration, a speaker here said.
“Currently all of our treatments for wet AMD are based on patients coming in and getting their OCT done to decide whether they should be treated or not,” Judy E. Kim, MD, said at Retina 2023. “What if we can get more information at home on a day-to-day basis? How do they do? When do they convert? And, how do they do after they get an injection?”