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For too long, patients with pigmented skin have been marginalized and faced worse outcomes than their peers with lighter skin colors. Textbooks, dermatology atlases, and other resources have traditionally underrepresented presentations of disease in people of color.
For over 20 years, VisualDx has been committed to providing a comprehensive resource for medical images across all skin types. We know the importance of helping healthcare professionals with the challenges and subtleties of recognizing skin changes in patients with darker skin pigmentation. Equally important is the ability to engage with patients of color by showing them images that look like them or the way a diagnosis manifests on dark skin. This can build confidence and trust—an essential part of practicing exemplary medicine.
VisualDx leverages our comprehensive curated medical image library, our deep knowledge base, and machine learning to provide the generalist practitioner with the help needed to recognize, understand, and treat skin conditions. Using AI and machine learning, the application analyzes the lesion type, then provides simple questions to quickly get to a differential.
We care about patient privacy, so we made DermExpert HIPAA compliant. Taking a photo of a patient with DermExpert will never transmit the image or save it to the device.
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