San Antonio Eye Center is Latest Retasure Reading Center

(Geriatrics News and Information) Digital Healthcare a Wake Forest NC company specializing in retinal risk assessment for diabetics announced today that San Antonio Eye Center in San Antonio Texas is Retasures latest reading center The additional reading will provide services for the rapidly growing number of Texasbased physicians offering Retasure assessmentsWith our tremendous growth in Texas we have more patients than ever requiring services from our Retasure reading centers said Scott Sanner Senior Vice President for Digital Healthcares North American Operations San Antonio Eye Center is one of the regions oldest and most established ophthalmology practices and we are honored they have agreed to provide services for Retasures diabetic patients Dr Dudley H Harris will lead the new Retasure reading center Dr Harris has practiced at San Antonio Eye Center for 37 years and is the senior physician for the five provider practice San Antonio Eye provides comprehensive ophthalmology services at three separate locationsThe reason I wanted to be involved in the diabetic risk assessment area is that with the advent of the small pupil camera we no longer need to do a complete eye exam for every diabetic patient every year said Dr Harris I think a key benefit to Retasure is that ultimately more patients will be assessed for diabetic retinopathy because the image is captured in their primary care physicians officeThe FDAapproved Retasure program provides a simple affordable and noninvasive solution that allows physicians to capture their patients retinal images during a three to five minute procedure Images are transmitted over a secure HIPAA compliant network to an accredited reading center A statelicensed and board certified ophthalmologist reviews the images and results are returned to the original physician within 72 hours There are an estimated 20 million diabetic patients in the US but only about half have any retinal assessments despite a high risk of diabetic retinopathy The National Eye Institute indicates diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness among working age American adults More than a million patients around the world have received a retinal risk assessment using Digital Healthcare softwareAbout Digital HealthcareDigital Healthcare is the global leader in retinal risk assessment They are the worlds leading provider of care management programs for diabetic retinopathy Their awardwinning MSHUG technology is used by leading hospitals and research centers including University Hospitals Case Medical Center at Case Western Reserve University The Wilmer Eye Institute at The Johns Hopkins University and the United States Military Digital Healthcares Retasure solution offers several advantages for primary care and endocrinologist physicians and their patients It can be operated by nonclinicians it is noninvasive and requires no dilation it obtains exceptionally highquality digital images of the retina using a simpletooperate fundus camera it returns results quickly to the ordering physicians and it encourages patient compliance for retinal evaluation and comprehensive eye examinations For additional information please visit wwwretasurecom...