Scary, eh? OPS are you listening? Our world is changing.... when I teach,
overwhelmingly the audience is not the elite OPS subset. As a past President
of the OPS I am so proud of what our organization has done and is doing; on
the other hand, some of the messages delivered in the late 80's and early 90's
( not always welcomed by our imagers ) is coming to pass.
I spend over 80% of my time doing what Mark Maio coined as "Ophthalmic
Information Management" and yet, when we try to talk about computers, digital
files and networking, most of MY audience feels "I don't need to know this".
Like coal workers, if we don't morph and grow, we will wake up one morning and
find that fine technology such as the Eidon, has passed us by.
Even my specialized subset of Echography is becoming rapidly eclipsed by auto
biometers and in operative abberometry....
Thoughts to ponder....
Denice Barsness
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Tim, Katherine and colleagues,
My satellite office just invested 3 weeks pacing CenterVue’s Edion unit (the
non FAF unit). For a most every one of our satellite demands it was
impressive. Agree with Tim, so simple to use! This unit could certainly be
used by RNs, and medical assistants without any eye experience.
Over the last 4 years our/my specific satellite imaging needs have been
angiography and OCT for retina services (I implement a Spectralis HRA+OCT, and
oversee a technician run Zeiss Cirrus). Therefore, a color device hasn’t lived
here for about five years.
After adding new retina and peds docs, my solo imaging department (me) here at
the satellite has been fielding more requests for ‘color fundus photos’. As
the single staff imager here, I felt a device I could use without maintaining a
skill set would be ideal. Having used the Eidon at the Annual Program, it was
clearly the first choice to trial. My other principal consideration is that
with the rotating staff technicians that visit here, with their many
subspecialty practices, could equally acquire accurate diagnostics with little
involvement on my part.
In my efforts, the Eidon produced ‘staff’ quality images from a 5 minute
in-service training. The tech teams over that 3 weeks nailed it in no time, so
I was off the hook – which is/was my goal as I am a very heavy angio service.
Retina and peds are thrilled with the images and I am as well.
Review ‘stations’ are slick, as they are browser based so the existing laptops
were used in a 20 second setup, and exporting to our EMR was equally slick.
Peds and retina found both those aspects to their liking.
I want to thank the very knowledgeable Kent Anders (cell 614 975-4422,
kent.anders@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) and the entire CenterVue team for sharing their
instrument so freely, I look forward to getting continued positive feedback
from my physicians. I’m optimist we will bring this device on board sometime
this year.
Attached is a very small file of a 4yr old with suspicious disc(I hope you can
view it). I captured this the 2nd day! we had the device. If you want to see
images via dropbox send me an off list email.
No financial interest….wish me luck convincing the leadership to purchase it.
Make it a great day.
Stuart
Stuart Alfred / 317-517-9455 / stuart.alfred@xxxxxxxxx
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Subject: [optimal] Re: non-myd cameras
In my experience most non-myd fundus cameras are pretty similar in
operation, ease of use & image quality. I don’t know that there’s a “best” one
out there. All are good at what they are intended for.
I just had a hands-on look at the Eidon retinal scanner a week or so ago
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It’s a very interesting device in that it’s a non-myd confocal scanner with a
white light LED (440-650 nm) source for color imaging. It also does IR. I’ve
never seen a device that’s this simple to use. It’s not perfect, but worth
taking a look at for the type of clinical situation you describe. I’m currently
working on a review article on it and will p
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