Anselm Bergstrom’s lesion was photographed by his practice nurse on a Monday and assessed by a dermatologist on the Wednesday of the following week.
Photograph-based triage moved most urgent lesion referrals to an answer within a fortnight, and moved the queue for benign findings out of the way entirely.
What teledermatology triaged
Adherence to topical treatment is low almost everywhere and is a design problem rather than a character one: the regimens are long, greasy and unpleasant.
Most of what we’re sent doesn’t need a person in a room. Freeing those slots is how the ones that do get seen.
Dr. Ilse Marchand, dermatology
A year on
Nothing here is cosmetic, and the clinic is explicit about that in its letters, because the word decides funding.
Median time to assessment on the urgent route fell from eleven weeks to nine days.
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