{"id":6302,"date":"2017-03-29T08:37:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T12:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6302"},"modified":"2017-03-29T08:37:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T12:37:56","slug":"telemedicine-reduces-diabetic-retinopathy-wait-times-in-la-county-clinics-by-89-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6302","title":{"rendered":"Telemedicine reduces diabetic retinopathy wait times in LA county clinics by 89.2%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Anuja Vaidya for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review)<\/p>\n<p>A telemedicine-based diabetic retinopathy screening program eliminated the need for more than 14,000 visits to specialty care professionals, according to a<a href=\"http:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamainternalmedicine\/fullarticle\/2612116\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>study<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/a>published in<em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>JAMA Internal Medicine<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/healthcare-information-technology\/telemedicine-reduces-diabetic-retinopathy-wait-times-in-la-county-clinics-by-89-2.html\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border: 1px solid #eaeaea; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.4; font-family: 'Courier 10 Pitch', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; overflow: auto; white-space: pre-wrap; color: #444444; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Anuja Vaidya for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) A telemedicine-based diabetic retinopathy screening program eliminated the need for more than 14,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-medical-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6303,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6302\/revisions\/6303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}