AI can give optometrists a head start in eye disease detection.
In medicine, artificial intelligence (AI) is used to support decision-based medical tasks through knowledge- and data-intensive computer-based solutions that ultimately improve the performance of a human care provider (Patel, 2009).
AI-driven applications can outperform dermatologists in classifying suspect skin lesions and can identify pulmonary tuberculosis on chest x-rays, an area prone to expert disagreement (Buch et al, 2018). Researchers used machine learning recently to redefine traditional labels by identifying children with similar comorbidities and disabilities from mixed developmental diagnostic groups (Reynolds and Day, 2018).
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The main purpose of the bill is to abolish NHS England and centralise its services, creating single patient records where patient health information is available in one place.
The College of Optometrists has today launched a public consultation on the next edition of its Guidance for Professional Practice which will be open for the next six weeks until Monday 3 August 2026.