Issue 8/2022
E. Hristova
SBOBAL – Varna, Management Board „Optometry“, Faculty of Public Health, MU – Varna
The significant evolution of diagnostic imaging methods in ophthalmology has led to the availability of a large amount of graphical information for each patient, which guides his diagnostic and therapeutic plan. The need of a unified system that stores and gives access to all images of the patient from different electronic devices, at any time, is growing with each passing year. Purpose: To present the potential of the PACS system available in SBOBAL – Varna named FORUM (Zeiss, US). Materials and methods: The FORUM (Zeiss, US) platform provides an opportunity to assess the pathological changes occurring in glaucoma and diseases with retinal involvement. Results: In patients with glaucoma FORUM (Zeiss, US) allows very early assessment of changes, and also helps individualize each patient therapy. With the Glaucoma Progression Analysis (GPA), FORUM can monitor already available glaucoma changes presented in graphical form, but also can predict those that will occur in a particular patient in the next 5 years with the function „Possible Progression“ or „Likely Progression“. Conclusions: Having all the images in one place positions ophthalmic practice to take advantage of potential artificial intelligence algorithms capable of extracting deeper insights and correlations.
Address for correspondence:
E. Hristova
SBOBAL – Varna, Medical University – Varna
15, Doiran, Str.
9002, Varna, Bulgaria