Direct-to-Patient Mobile Teledermoscopy: Prospective Observational Study

Winnie Fan; Gunnar Mattson; Amanda Twigg

doi:10.2196/52400

Direct-to-Patient Mobile Teledermoscopy: Prospective Observational Study

JMIR Dermatol. 2024 Feb 12:7:e52400. doi: 10.2196/52400.

Authors

Winnie Fan^#¹, Gunnar Mattson^#¹, Amanda Twigg^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States.
² Department of Dermatology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Health Care System, San Francisco, CA, United States.

^# Contributed equally.

PMID: 38345831
PMCID: PMC10897786
DOI: 10.2196/52400

Abstract

Direct-to-patient mobile teledermoscopy is a feasible and useful adjunct to smartphone imaging for monitoring patient-identified lesions of concern, achieving comparable diagnostic and management accuracy as in-office dermatology.

Keywords: dermatological; dermatology; dermoscopy; diagnoses; diagnosis; diagnostic; diagnostic concordance; direct-to-patient; eHealth; full body skin exam; image; images; imaging; lesion; lesions; mHealth; mobile health; mobile teledermoscopy; skin; smartphone; teledermatology; telehealth; telemedicine.