India’s Innovation Stimulus - Thomas Friedman

"A quarter of the world’s blind people, some 12 million, are in India, Chandrasekhar explains, and more than 80 percent of those are blind as a result of a lack of screening and a lack of ophthalmologists in rural areas. In the past, comprehensive screening required multiple expensive diagnostic devices to check for diabetic retinas, cataracts, glaucoma, cornea and refraction problems, all of which cause 90 percent of the avoidable blindness in India. So Forus invented 'a single, portable, intelligent, noninvasive, eye prescreening device' that can identify all five of these major ailments and also provide an automated 'Normal or Needs to See a Doctor' report; it can be run by a trained technician, who through telemedicine connects patients to a doctor."