Overview
Derma2go offers a teledermatology web-based service connecting patients and dermatologists. Patients can submit information about their skin lesions (not limited to skin cancer) and overall health condition. They receive in return diagnosis and treatment recommendations from certified dermatologists. This service is offered in Switzerland, Germany, Austria and is refunded by German private medical insurances.
One of the main challenges for derma2go is to ensure that patients provide all relevant information necessary for diagnosis. When information is missing, supplementary patient-to-dermatologist exchanges are required, decreasing the efficiency of the process and negatively affecting user experience for both, patient and dermatologists. Moreover, due to the very limited number of certified dermatologists, any process inefficiencies hamper scalability and further growth of derma2go.
To better guide the patients in the information submission phase, fully automated verification steps are therefore required. This is especially difficult with uploaded images. Our vision is to develop a machine learning algorithm to automatically identify whether a patient has uploaded images of all relevant body regions (the list being determined based on patient’s questionnaire answers).
