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Article: Cameras will keep an eye on patients.(Business)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- July 23, 2003
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Byline: Louise Davies
AN OPTICIAN in Norris Green has in vested pounds 15,000 in specialist retinal equipment to monitor the side effects of diabetes and glaucoma on the eyes.
Robert Glass Opticians has purchased two Retinal Cameras which will enable its optometrists to monitor eye complaints on a much more precise basis.
At an eye test, optometrists traditionally use a system of reference numbers to manually log and monitor the chang es to their patients' eyes -a system which is long established and very effective. However, the Retinal Camera will take optometry into a new era, using tech nolo gical advances to further improve the quality of a patient's ongoing ...