Digital Skin Care: Top 8 Dermatology Apps
Each year 2-3 million non-melanoma and 132,000
melanoma skin cancers occur globally according to statistics from the
WHO. Thus, every tool has to be deployed for early detection and
intervention. As smartphone penetration already reached the quarter of the
Earth’s population, smartphone apps seem to be a viable way to go against skin
conditions. Here, we collected the top dermatology apps to aid your digital
skin care.
As smartphones take over the world, dermatology apps
multiply
As technology continues to advance, so too does its
accessibility to the general population. In 2013, only 56 percent of Americans
owned a smartphone, which climbed to 77 percent in 2017. Next year, there were around 1.56 billion smartphones sales
worldwide, and the user number reached more than 2.71 billion by now. With planet Earth’s population over 7.6 billion, these
numbers show that approximately 20 percent of all people got a new smartphone
last year.
As a consequence, smartphone apps of all categories multiplied exponentially. No matter whether you want to add more cats to your life through Cat Paint or want to know what ghosts are talking about around you, the right app is just a tap away. In dermatology, a study published in 2017 found 526 apps corresponding to an 80.8 percent growth in smartphone-based platforms since 2014. The boom is understandable: as you can easily detect if you have a skin problem, and smartphones coupled with super-fast internet connection make it easy t...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Telemedicine & Smartphones dermatology Health Healthcare Innovation patient patient information skin smart health smart healthcare smartphone apps technology Source Type: blogs
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