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The global pandemic has changed our lives in so many ways.

In this Healio Video Perspective from the virtual ARVO meeting, Mohamed Abou Shousha, MD, PhD, FRCS, discusses results of a study looking at accuracy of visual field analysis done with Bascom Palmer’s Heru visual field multi-platform app.

Artificial intelligence will replace glaucoma diagnosis by live clinicians.

Artificial intelligence has many definitions, but as applied to medicine, I like one from Wikipedia. Paraphrased, AI is the use of computers that mimic the cognitive functions of the human mind to enhance learning and problem solving.

By 2040, worldwide cases of glaucoma are expected to increase 74%, but the potential for artificial intelligence technology to diagnose and manage the disease is vast.

The COVID-19 pandemic caused many anxious patients to delay in-person medical treatment and turn to the internet for potential solutions, but folk remedies and snake oil have existed long before the internet.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if a device could automate even portions of cataract surgery, removing some of the unavoidable variability that occurs with the human hand?

In robotic surgery, only the robotic system’s “arms” touch the patient, and the surgeon does not touch those “arms.”

Ophthalmology is one of the most technology-driven branches of medicine, and most key advances in the field have relied on devices rather than drugs. Now, robots and artificial intelligence are poised to be part of an impending revolution.

Augmented reality (AR) has gradually become a substantial part of modern life, and I believe it will certainly be part of how we approach our surgical patients in the future.