Figure 1, a photo-sharing platform for healthcare professionals, is now available in India. The app enables healthcare professionals and students to connect, discuss, and share content related to the field of medicine. This is the first Asian market for the company.
The app, launched in 2013, is available in 48 countries and the images are viewed more than 1.5 million times a day, according to the company. The app is most popular with healthcare professionals in the US and the UK and Figure 1 hopes that the app will gain traction among India’s 2.3 million healthcare professionals.
“Medicine is a visual field and there’s so much to be learned from medical images. Figure 1 is a privacy-conscious way for Indian healthcare professionals to view, share, and talk about a wide variety of medical findings,” said Dr. Joshua Landy, a Critical Care Medicine Specialist who developed the concept while seeing patients in an Intensive Care Unit in Toronto, Canada.
The company has worked with Indian lawyers to ensure the platform complies with the country’s privacy laws. When sharing, doctors can add comments and tags to their pictures to clarify or strengthen searches. They can also adjust who can see the image in the privacy settings.
Figure 1 protects its subjects by auto-detecting and blocking faces, and also gives users the option to blur parts of a photo that might give away a patient’s identity.
In conjunction with the launch, the company will start the Ambassador program and Fellows program to provide guidance to medical, nursing, and dental students in the country.
The app can be downloaded from the App Store and Google Play.
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Editing by Paul Bischoff
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