Mobile Health in Ophthalmology: A View From Silicon Valley

Thursday, May 29, 2014
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
(Pacific)
Stanford Center at Peking University
Speaker: 
  • Robert Chang

Mobile medical applications and portable medical devices are increasingly entering health care delivery systems as they push the limits of big data acquisition, secure cloud storage, and automated analysis of medical information. Smartphone technologies have advanced rapidly and are now in the hands of a large number of physicians and other healthcare workers, including individuals in low- and middle-income countries. Professor Chang will talk about the exploding mobile health space, his experience in developing a simple adapter to facilitate image capture of the eye, and emerging trends in wearable tech.

Dr. Chang is a clinician-scientist with special interest in mobile health development and healthcare IT startups. His clinical research focus revolves around understanding the association between high myopia and glaucoma. He is currently co-developing “EyeGo,” an iPhone imaging system for remote eye care triage.