AI Model Predicts Treatment Demand for Common Chronic Eye Diseases

As aging populations quietly overwhelm the capacity of specialized eye clinics, a collaboration between clinicians, engineers, and a medical AI startup in Bern has produced something quietly consequential: machine learning models capable of predicting, from a patient's earliest visits, how often they will need injections to preserve their sight. Three conditions — age-related macular degeneration, retinal vein occlusion, and diabetic macular edema — affect tens of millions worldwide, each demanding repeated eye injections whose frequency varies enormously between patients. The insight that a b