AlzEye uses the retina to discern the health of other organs
parts of a health-care system have different focuses. A hospital’s dementia unit keeps records of patients’ mental abilities. The stroke unit monitors blood flow in the brain. The cardiac unit is interested in that same flow, but through and from the heart. Each agglomeration of equipment and data is effective in its own domain, but for the most part has little relevance to other bits of the body and the conditions that plague them.
The data set includes, whether they know it or not, every one of the 300,000 patients who visited Moorfields between 2008 and 2018 and was over the age of 40—though names and other easily identifiable information are not preserved. The idea is to examine changes to people’s eyes within that ten-year period, and correlate these with, say, the emergence of Alzheimer’s disease in the same patient. Building such a data set while respecting privacy and confidentiality has been a challenge.
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