Investigating the Impact of Automation on the Health Care Workforce Through Autonomous Telemedicine in the Cataract Pathway: Protocol for a Multicenter Study

Sarah Khavandi   ^{1, 2, 3 *} , BSc, MBBS ;   Fatema Zaghloul   ^{4 *} , MSc, PhD ;   Aisling Higham   ^{1, 5} , BSc, MBBS ;   Ernest Lim   ^{1, 6} , BSc, MBBS ;   Nick de Pennington   ¹ , BM BCh, MA, EMBA ;   Leo Anthony Celi   ^{7, 8, 9} , MD, MS, MPH

¹ Ufonia, Oxford, United Kingdom

² Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cheltenham, United Kingdom

³ Imperial College School of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

⁴ Operations and Management Science, Healthcare and Innovation, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

⁵ Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, Reading, United Kingdom

⁶ Department of Computer Science, University of York, York, United Kingdom

⁷ Laboratory for Computational Physiology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States

⁸ Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States

⁹ Department of Biostatistics, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States

*these authors contributed equally