'Instagram for doctors' lets medics share photos to solve mystery cases
Doctors always have the desire to share the unknown, or complex. Last year, Shipes began using Figure 1, which is a photo sharing app. In this app, doctors would share photographs and information about their patients for learning and it is available in 19 countries. Landy, a medic, believes that this app will seek external opinions when treating a variety of patients. It was launched in May 2013; Figure-1 enables users to take an image, remove any identifying information, and upload the image for feedback from the community of healthcare users accessing the app. In the summer of 2014, there were 150, 000 users, and the number is expected to be higher today with images in the library being viewed on average about 1.5 million times a day.
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