Innovative Approaches - Telehealth for Opticians, Optometrists, Ophthalmologists and Public Health Experts Post Covid-19

Description

Telehealth is not the future, it is here. In times where you have social distancing norms and threat of a virus, all health care providers need to need to adopt tele-health practices. This book will provide an insight on how Ophthalmologists, Optometrists, Opticians and Primary Health Officials can implement Tele-health in to their practice. How they should provide consultations and treatment to their patients remotely. It will guide and explain guidelines and protocols of MCI they must follow for tele-health implementation. It will guide all NGO 's in eye care and explain how they can reach to unreached rural areas to connect to their patients in safe and cost effective manner. We can identify and treat patients remotely and refer them for surgeries sitting in different locations. Tele-health can be be implemented in school screening and students can prescribed with correct prescription remotely.

Telehealth book is a great tool for health education, prevention, early detection and treatment remotely and patients are only seen in person for only emergency and surgical procedures .

About the Author

Ajeet Bhardwaj is a renowned Optometrist in India. He graduated from AIIMS, New Delhi in 1979 and later completed his M.Optom from Lotus College of Optometry, Mumbai. He is the Founder & Director of Optique in Vasant Vihar, New Delhi. Optique is a chain of Optometry clinics with retail stores across India since 1988.

He is the Past President of the Asia Pacific Council of Optometry and Indian Optometry Federation. He was a Board Member of the World Council of Optometry, World Optometry Foundation and Optometry Council of India. He was also the Clinical Director of the Special Olympics Opening Eyes program in India.

Ajeet is also an avid tennis player & plays for the Indian Senior Tennis team, and represents India in international championships. His time traveling with the Indian team, built his interest to develop and implement Telehealth in his practice so that he could stay connected to his patients while being away.

He started a vision centre in his village in Haryana where all patients are provided free consultations, glasses and cataract surgery in collaboration with AIIMS New Delhi, Schroff Eye Centre Darya Ganj and Lions Eye Hospital in Defence Colony. The centre provides services to 20 villages around it. Optometry interns of Bachelors and Masters Programs from Amity University often participate and conduct OPD as a part of community outreach. Seeing the regular flow of patients, and the community outreach, the Haryana Government established a Primary Healthcare Centre in the same building.

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