Enablers and Barriers to Deployment of Smartphone-Based Home Vision Monitoring in Clinical Practice Settings.

Importance: Telemedicine is accelerating the remote detection and monitoring of medical conditions, such as vision-threatening diseases. Meaningful deployment of smartphone apps for home vision monitoring should consider the barriers to patient uptake and engagement and address issues around digital exclusion in vulnerable patient populations.

Objective: To quantify the associations between patient characteristics and clinical measures with vision monitoring app uptake and engagement.