DOG Forum digital

The significance digitization holds for the health care system and thus also for ophthalmology is constantly rising. This development offers many opportunities, but it also poses completely new challenges and questions for research, teaching and patient care in clinics and practices.

The DOG will focus on this important topic and with its Forum Digital will be setting a special program focus within the congress. This program offers a platform aimed at ophthalmologists and scientists, manufacturers of diagnostic equipment, software providers, companies in the pharmaceutical industry and start-ups and intends to promote exchange and discourse as well as networking.

The presentations deal with the opportunities offered by digitisation without neglecting the challenges of change. Symposia will highlight the scientific issue of digitisation, while workshops and presentations will focus on the practical, legal and technical aspects that arise in this context and will arise in the future. In addition to scientific discourse and the commu­nication of information, there will also be room for exchange.

Thursday, 26. 9., to Saturday, 28. 9. 2019

Scientific coordination of the DOG Forum digital:
Nicole Eter (Münster)
Karsten Kortüm (München)

Thursday, 26. 9. 2019

Friday, 27. 9. 2019

 
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Forum Digital 10:15 - 11:30 27.09.2019
Symposien Fr11
Smartphones and mHealth to revolutionize Eye Care
Mobile Technology has introduced significant changes to eye care, last but not least in low-resource settings. Smartphones gain increasing popularity and due to their ubiquity and multifunctionality they might pave the way for the next revolution in medicine. This is especially the case in Ophthalmology, where they allow for smartphone-based funduscopy, an easy and extremely mobile eye examination. This symposium will highlight current promising developments and applications of smartphones and mHealth in Ophthalmology and will also show how mHealth is successfully being utilized in other fields than Ophthalmology.
Robert Patrick Finger (Bonn)
Maximilian Wintergerst (Bonn)
Heiko Philippin (Moshi)
Using smartphones to make data-based decisions in screening programs 
Priya Morjaria (London)
Detecting glaucoma in low- and middle-income countries in the era of mHealth 
Heiko Philippin (Moshi)
Smartphone-based Fundus Photography to tackle the burden of retinopathy of prematurity screening in low- and middle-income countries? 
Maximilian Wintergerst (Bonn)
Outside the box – mHealth interventions in other fields than Ophthalmology in developing countries 
Victor Stephani (Berlin)
Challenges and Opportunities of Implementing mHealth in developing countries 
Babar Qureshi (London)
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Saturday, 28. 9. 2019