High-tech camera helps improve diabetic care

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Aurora Walker’s Point Community Clinic and Bread of Healing Clinic have found a way to help prevent patients with diabetes from losing their eyesight while saving money and providing more convenient care.

The two clinics for the past year or so have shared a camera — a gift from employees of Aurora Health Care that cost about $18,000 — that can take a picture of retinas.

“It just made sense from both an economic perspective and from a patient perspective,” said Steve Ohly, manager of Aurora Walker’s Point Community Clinic.

Patients with diabetes are at risk, particularly if they have had the disease for 10 years, of diabetic retinopathy, the most common diabetic eye disease and a significant cause of blindness in adults, according to the National Eye Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health.

The Aurora Walker’s Point and Bread of Healing clinics previously referred patients to an eye clinic for the annual exam. That was costly and time-consuming for the clinic and inconvenient for patients.

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