A Roadmap for National Diabetic Retinopathy Screening in Croatia: Integrating European Evidence, Telemedicine, and AI.

The proposed programme combines decentralised telemedicine-based imaging at primary care sites with centralised grading, a staged rollout across three phases targeting 400,000 annual screenings, and stepwise artificial intelligence integration for triage.

Successful European programmes share standardised digital imaging, trained grading workforces, embedded quality assurance, and registry linkage.