Teledermatology

Dermatology has been among the first in generating evidence and a robust evidence base for Telehealth to: develop technology and innovation increase access and appropriateness to measure outcomes. However, there ...

Telehealth vs Telemedecine The pandemic has catalyzed the adoption of telehealth. “Telehealth” refers to a broader scope of remote health care services than telemedicine. Telemedicine refers specifically to remote clinical ...

What will be the proportion of Telemedicine in Dermatology (Teledermatology consults out of the total when we emerge from the pandemic ? How much do we need to be in ...

We commonly visualize the classical Artificial Intelligence (AI) Dichotomy: “man versus machine” This is fostered by a lot of popular culture, like the AI on Jeopardy or Deep Blue playing ...

Telemedicine has become quite important because it increases access and allows care to continue, even if in-person is not possible. Telemedicine is a great triaging tool. A lot of solutions ...

“To be converted one must first be convinced.” Lailah Gifty Akita Teledermatology (TD) or Telemedecine for Skin Diseases is the use of Information & Communication Technology (ICT) applied to the ...

COVID19 forced the world to really think about telemedicine in new ways. Certainly in the US it became “telemedicine or no medicine”. The AAD task force of the Teledermatology task ...

Telemedicine is the use of telecommunication technology delivering care by doctors from a distance in any form. Today we might typically think about using… it’s using smartphones, tablets, computers. However ...

There are gadgets that are already out in the market are helping us record images taken by the patients and family physicians. This helps in documenting, and is also of ...

With dermoscopy, things get simpler, fortunately. Dermoscopy is so important for us to make a diagnosis, especially for those of us that work in oncology. Sometimes even when the clinical ...

Even if efforts are made to standardize the image collection (same position), there are distortions which can arise. These can sometimes be corrected but it is important to be aware ...

Taking a standardized clinical picture can help to compare images and enhance machine learning to recognize the conditions, especially when associated with clinical data. It is also of use when ...

Again: COVID-19 ! It was like an explosion. It has changed our way of doing medicine, our way of doing dermatology. And of course it has had an impact on ...

With the appearance of COVID-19 on the scene, we had to change our way of working. This has driven digital developments that may otherwise have taken years. What we do ...

Data from Spain over time has shown an increasing number of centers that are using teledermatology. At least 30% of hospitals now are using some form of teledermatology across the ...

Spain has a more regional approach and data from the south of Spain, Andalusia, we see a nice hubs and spokes model that has evolved in different regions, feeding back ...

-In the Netherlands, they’ve been lucky enough to have KSYOS, which has been the main provider of teledermatology services, are now going to be fairly universally utilized throughout the country. ...

In the UK today, we see a number of different teledermatology models in use: The National Health Service (NHS) has its own digital platform called eRS, which has an advice ...

In the early days, the British Association of Dermatologists (BAD) was somewhat skeptical about teledermatology, but the situation has totally changed now and very general acceptance of where this should ...

Turning to the UK, experiences were around the turn of the millennium, with lots of pilot studies and experiments going on around the year 2000. The British Teledermatology Society was ...

The value of teledermoscopy is well-recognized: It’s 10 years (in 2020) since the presenter published an editorial in the BJD as to whether teledermoscopy validated teledermatology for the triage of ...

It’s not surprising from data presented (see “Dermatology in Europe”) that the countries that seem to have a highest teledermatology usage are (2020): the Netherlands Spain the United Kingdom. In ...

For another comparison, let’s compare Germany with the UK (2020):-We can see that in the UK there are a small number dermatologists for the population, whereas in Germany there are ...

There are a number of fundamental differences in the way that healthcare system is run in different countries. Some of these can be state-funded, national or regional basis, or they ...

There are now 27 countries of the EU, following Brexit, but there are 44 countries in total. And if you include smaller states and transcontinental countries, then we can count ...

We have evolved over the last few years, that there is more literature regarding dermoscopy or inflammascopy in literature. And non-specific rashes, which could have been treated as insect bite ...

For practitioners in a clinical setting using dermoscopy for even rashes, diagnostic features shown in another article (Psoriasis, eczema) are obvious. Indeed, adding dermoscopy images into the teledermatology makes a ...

Psoriasis, dermoscopy shows a classic psoriasis vessel pattern: Non-polarized light, regularly tightly, uniformly arranged, dotted vessels can be seen. Polarized light highlights white scaling throughout, which favors psoriasis over eczema ...

Once clinical photography is done dermoscopy images should be obtained particularly when the diagnosis is unknown. Practical things to take dermoscopy photographic imaging: Include some normal skin to contrast, at ...

Let’s look at a couple of workflows. These are platform agnostic workflows, meaning one can adapt or adopt them. First thing, make sure that your insurance covers the teledermatology practice. ...