Social Security Ruling On Evaluating Visual Field Loss Using Automated Static Threshold Perimetry

Social Security has published Social Security Ruling 07-01p on using automated static threshold perimetry to evaluate visual field loss. It appears to be intended to give Social Security stamp of approval for a new technology. This sort of technical refinement in disability determination may not excite Commissioner Astrue (or me), but it is what is practical and helpful, while automated keyword searches of medical records, as discussed above, are not likely to be either practical or helpful.