City boy’s app helps detect cataract early – ET HealthWorld

City boy’s app helps detect cataract early – ET HealthWorld

Lucknow: Lucknow boy Eshaan Vasanthkumar, 17, has developed an AI-based app ‘Roshini’ that detects cataract in early stages. The app was introduced during a free eye check-up camp organised by Uttar Pradesh Technical Support Unit and Study Hall on Saturday. A student of Class 12 at Study Hall School, Ehsaan, along with National Health Mission … Read more

Eye on the future at Lucknow G20 meet: Cataract care via WhatsApp – ET HealthWorld

Eye on the future at Lucknow G20 meet: Cataract care via WhatsApp – ET HealthWorld

Lucknow: Logy.AI, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled healthcare platform has developed an AI and Whatsapp-based system which will help detect eye diseases, such as Cataract. This new technology mode was recently displayed in the exhibition held at the G20 summit in Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow. Priyaranjit Ghosh, co-founder of this startup, said that people in rural … Read more

Sharp Sight Eye Hospitals and Logy.AI launch AI-based cataract screening solution – ET HealthWorld

Sharp Sight Eye Hospitals and Logy.AI launch AI-based cataract screening solution – ET HealthWorld

New Delhi: Sharp Sight Eye Hospitals in collaboration with Logy.AI envisions has introduced AI-based screening solution to identify cataracts on the spot with 92 per cent accuracy. The AI-based screening solution is present as a simple chatbot on WhatsApp, so that it can be used for mass screening. It wouldn’t require anyone to download any … Read more

Cataract Surgery Might Lower Your Odds for Dementia

Cataract Surgery Might Lower Your Odds for Dementia

By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Dec. 7, 2021 (HealthDay News) — People who undergo surgery to treat cataracts may have a lower likelihood of developing Alzheimer’s disease, a new study suggests. Of more than 3,000 older adults with the eye disease, those who had surgery were about 30% less likely to be diagnosed with … Read more

Now, AI-based app helps detect cataract in TN – ET HealthWorld

Now, AI-based app helps detect cataract in TN – ET HealthWorld

Chennai: An award-winning mobile app, developed by Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency (TNeGA), is helping government hospitals identify people with cataracts. The Artificial Intelligence-based app named E-Paarvai allows healthcare workers (HCWs) to identify cataracts on the spot with 91% accuracy. Untreated cataracts are one of the primary reasons for blindness in Tamil Nadu, which currently has … Read more

Hundreds of cataract surgeries in ‘Covid catch-up’

Hundreds of cataract surgeries in ‘Covid catch-up’

Image caption Brenda Silverman was one of the first patients to be treated as part of Moorfields’ “cataract drive” One of the world’s largest eye hospitals is quadrupling its number of cataract operations, in an attempt to tackle the backlog caused by Covid-19. Moorfields Eye Hospital, in London, is aiming to perform nearly 1,000 cataract … Read more