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A battery-powered camera has screened fifteen million patients

development2026-05-05

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India's Remidio has built a battery-powered fundus camera letting a community health worker capture a high-resolution retinal image in seconds, already used to screen fifteen million patients across forty countries for diabetic eye disease, with new software flagging dangerous pregnancies on the same hardware.

Reported metric: 15M patients / 40 countries

Reporting date: 2026-05-05 (not necessarily the event date)

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A battery-powered camera has screened fifteen million patients
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Reporting date: 2026-05-05
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-05-05-fifteen-million-retinal-screens
Claim: India's Remidio has built a battery-powered fundus camera letting a community health worker capture a high-resolution retinal image in seconds, already used to screen fifteen million patients across forty countries for diabetic eye disease, with new software flagging dangerous pregnancies on the same hardware.
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