Mobile teledermatology: a promising future in clinical practice.
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2013-10-21
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BACKGROUND As a product of electronic health teledermatology is a cost effective means of improving access to care facilitating specialist consultations and supporting patient self management Even so use of traditional teledermatology services is limited by infrastructure and costs in the form of digital cameras computers and Internet access METHODS Considering the significant improvement in smartphone camera resolution and the rapidly increasing number of physicians using smartphones we explored the use of smartphones as reliable effective clinical tools in store and forward teledermatology We describe the technical specifications of modern smartphone cameras the widespread use of smartphones by physicians and the advantages of smartphones over traditional camera and Internet teledermatology and we propose recommendations as to how mobile teledermatology may be more effectively used in modern dermatologic practice