Managed Healthcare Executive November 5, 2023
Albert S. Khouri, M.D., says ophthalmic care lends itself to telehealth because it is image based. As with many other areas of medicine, the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated adoption.
Telehealth swept through healthcare during the early peak days of the COVID-19 epidemic, and ophthalomology was not exception.
But Albert S. Khouri, a professor of ophthalmology at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, says that ophthalmic care is particularly well suited to delivery via telehealth.
“A lot of the technologies that we use are image-based and are very objective,...