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Welcome to Dermal Imaging

Dermal Imaging was established in 2014 as research collaboration between New Zealand based scientists working in the area of Dermatology and Digital Imaging.
Prime objective of this collaboration was to promote interdisciplinary research around the field of medical imaging. As a result to be able to propose robust solutions for higher productivity in health sector.
From its start, DI has been establishing strong working relationships with senior health practitioners and has acquired good understanding of the existing problems faced by global health community.

New Zealand Innovation Award: By MedCentral 2015

https://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/74524963/new-surgery-tool-scoops-dhb-innovation-award

State-of-the-art technology for occupational health practitioners.

DI’s aim is to increase the overall efficiency of medical processes in order to reduce the medical cost for every patient.
Dermal Imaging System has been targeted as an aid to medical practitioners (mainly Dermatologists). The system scans the wound area with a handheld device (smartphone) and processes the visual data for human medical expert. The entire process is realtime and session is saved on a cloud with secure encryption.
First version of DI’s App called “Wound Care” has been launched in New Zealand with collaboration of various District Health Boards.
The usefulness of DI system also attracted major players in NZ Private sectors who showed great interest in adopting this system for various Rest Homes and Hospitals.

Wound Care Application

  • Uniquely leverages skills
  • Be connected, share the knowledge
  • Realtime visual information saves time
  • Secure cloud
  • No need for patient travel, reduced cost
  • Repeatable, traceable, durable, small, simple, robust
  • Remote support, more patients can be examined

Wound Care

  • District Nursing (D.N) provides ACC funded wound care services to a number of individuals.
  • N have a number of visits for wound care management, frequently, months or follow ups.
  • The report is usually a hand sketched diagram, hard to interpratate.
  • The wound size is provided but with little description to assess healing.
  • The wound size reduces and increases without any descriptive information, hence making an approval of treatment and number of wound care sessions by the BMA’s hard.

Solution – Dermal Imaging

  • The D.N would be able to take a photograph of wound on day one of the wound care.
  • The D.N would then take a photograph on weekly bases to give pictorial history of how the wound is progressing. This will provide an opportunity for a visual assessment of wound care to the medical advisor.

Issues

  • Photos would be taken on a private device
  • Privacy breaches, the photo could be sent to a non ACC computer or provider
  • Inability of coloured printing at D.N to send the reports to ACC.

Solution – Dermal Imaging

  • The D.N will take a photo by a provided phone or device. The D.N will have a specific log in
  • Each patient will have a will have an ACC number, and specific case number for the wound (wound ID number).
  • The photo will be uploaded to a secure server, not available on the phone or device
  • Only ACC IP addresses could access the digital image library

More important are the special features provided by dermal imaging the application will do the as following:

  • It will take the photograph which will assess the wound in 3 dimensions (length, width and depth)
  • The application is precise to 1mm of measurement
  • Provides a comment box for the medical assessor
  • Provides a dynamic graph to show how the wound is responding to treatment
  • The graph would show increase or decrease in all parameters (length, width and depth) and severity of the wound
  • The ability to send selective photos for dermatological review (with ensuring privacy)
  • The image recognition technology would be used for image comparison
  • The application would help the medical advisor to compare images on the same view.

About Team

Dr. Zaidi is a Senior Occupational & Environmental Medicine Consultant presently working at the District Health Board and ACC in New Zealand. He is also an adjunct senior lecturer in the department of Occupational and Aviation Medicine in Otago University. He has been consulting for more than 18 years in the field of health, safety, environment and occupational hygiene. Dr. Zaidi has performed thousands of medical examination related to employment (pre-employment), fitness to work and disability assessments. He has performed more than 300 environmental & occupational health, hygiene and safety surveys, and has provided consulting services for a diverse cliental ranging from institutional establishments to the automotive industry. He provides first-hand experience in assessing the requirements of the client involving the anticipation, recognition, evaluation and control of a wide variety of chemical, physical and biological stressors.

LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/moazzam-zaidi-b379a550/

Dr. Shuaib is a senior medical professional from Rotorua and has been involved with many innovative ventures.

David has been a key person for productive networking. His presence has be paramount to introduce the idea to various individuals and organizations.

Dr. Shujaat Khan completed his PhD in machine vision from Massey University, New Zealand. He believes in collaborations and has great admiration for modern R&D practices like CAD & simulation. His background in Aircraft simulation always helps him in building realistic process models and evaluating their performance.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shujjat/

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