Instagram for doctors: how Figure 1 is crowdsourcing diagnoses
by Samuel Gibbs from on (#7WZH)
The medical photo-sharing app lets doctors and medical staff send images of diseases and injuries safely
Where do doctors turn when even they don't know what's wrong with you? Colleagues? Books? The internet? A Canadian startup wants to make the answer an Instagram for doctors.
Figure 1 is an app that allows iPhone and Android-owning doctors to share images of diseases, injuries and everything in between. Launched in 2013, the app was born from the idea that sharing images of what confounds doctors with other doctors across the world can help point them in the direction of the right answer.
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