Evaluating healthcare practitioners’ views on store-and-forward teledermoscopy services for the diagnosis of skin cancer
OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study is to evaluate healthcare practitioners’ views on and satisfaction with (i) digital image acquisition and storage and (ii) store-and-forward teledermoscopy services for the diagnosis of skin cancer in their clinical practice. METHODS: An online survey was conducted am...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6376520/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30792879 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2055207619828225 |
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author | Janda, Monika Horsham, Caitlin Koh, Uyen Gillespie, Nicole Vagenas, Dimitrios Loescher, Lois J Curiel-Lewandrowski, Clara Hofmann-Wellenhof, Rainer Peter Soyer, H. |
author_facet | Janda, Monika Horsham, Caitlin Koh, Uyen Gillespie, Nicole Vagenas, Dimitrios Loescher, Lois J Curiel-Lewandrowski, Clara Hofmann-Wellenhof, Rainer Peter Soyer, H. |
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description | OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study is to evaluate healthcare practitioners’ views on and satisfaction with (i) digital image acquisition and storage and (ii) store-and-forward teledermoscopy services for the diagnosis of skin cancer in their clinical practice. METHODS: An online survey was conducted among 59 healthcare practitioners (GPs (n=17), dermatologists (n=22), dermatology registrars (n=18), a dermatology research fellow (n=1) and a plastic surgeon (n=1)) to assess usability of digital image acquisition and storage for when the imaging process is conducted by the healthcare practitioners themselves, or by their patients. The study identifies the enablers and barriers of this emerging mode of medical practice. A thematic analysis was used to extract key themes from open-ended responses, which involved identifying themes and patterns within and across participants. RESULTS: Thirty-four healthcare practitioners (58%) had previously used a mobile dermatoscope within their practice. Participants most appreciated its use in their practice for lesion monitoring (59%) and record keeping (39%). Challenges reported were the increased time to support the additional workload (45%), technical issues (33%) and cost of equipment (27%). Practitioners were unsure (36%) or did not advocate teledermoscopy for direct-to-consumer use (41%). Only 23% supported the use of direct-to-consumer teledermoscopy. CONCLUSION: While most practitioners are receptive to mobile teledermoscopy, there was less support for patient-initiated use, whereby the patient controls the imaging process. As technology improves rapidly it is important to evaluate practitioners’ acceptance and satisfaction of evolving telehealth services, moving forward with models of practice where healthcare practitioners and other healthcare providers will feel comfortable engaging in telehealth services. |
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spelling | pubmed-63765202019-02-21 Evaluating healthcare practitioners’ views on store-and-forward teledermoscopy services for the diagnosis of skin cancer Janda, Monika Horsham, Caitlin Koh, Uyen Gillespie, Nicole Vagenas, Dimitrios Loescher, Lois J Curiel-Lewandrowski, Clara Hofmann-Wellenhof, Rainer Peter Soyer, H. Digit Health Original Research OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study is to evaluate healthcare practitioners’ views on and satisfaction with (i) digital image acquisition and storage and (ii) store-and-forward teledermoscopy services for the diagnosis of skin cancer in their clinical practice. METHODS: An online survey was conducted among 59 healthcare practitioners (GPs (n=17), dermatologists (n=22), dermatology registrars (n=18), a dermatology research fellow (n=1) and a plastic surgeon (n=1)) to assess usability of digital image acquisition and storage for when the imaging process is conducted by the healthcare practitioners themselves, or by their patients. The study identifies the enablers and barriers of this emerging mode of medical practice. A thematic analysis was used to extract key themes from open-ended responses, which involved identifying themes and patterns within and across participants. RESULTS: Thirty-four healthcare practitioners (58%) had previously used a mobile dermatoscope within their practice. Participants most appreciated its use in their practice for lesion monitoring (59%) and record keeping (39%). Challenges reported were the increased time to support the additional workload (45%), technical issues (33%) and cost of equipment (27%). Practitioners were unsure (36%) or did not advocate teledermoscopy for direct-to-consumer use (41%). Only 23% supported the use of direct-to-consumer teledermoscopy. CONCLUSION: While most practitioners are receptive to mobile teledermoscopy, there was less support for patient-initiated use, whereby the patient controls the imaging process. As technology improves rapidly it is important to evaluate practitioners’ acceptance and satisfaction of evolving telehealth services, moving forward with models of practice where healthcare practitioners and other healthcare providers will feel comfortable engaging in telehealth services. SAGE Publications 2019-02-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6376520/ /pubmed/30792879 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2055207619828225 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Original Research Janda, Monika Horsham, Caitlin Koh, Uyen Gillespie, Nicole Vagenas, Dimitrios Loescher, Lois J Curiel-Lewandrowski, Clara Hofmann-Wellenhof, Rainer Peter Soyer, H. Evaluating healthcare practitioners’ views on store-and-forward teledermoscopy services for the diagnosis of skin cancer |
title | Evaluating healthcare practitioners’ views on store-and-forward
teledermoscopy services for the diagnosis of skin cancer |
title_full | Evaluating healthcare practitioners’ views on store-and-forward
teledermoscopy services for the diagnosis of skin cancer |
title_fullStr | Evaluating healthcare practitioners’ views on store-and-forward
teledermoscopy services for the diagnosis of skin cancer |
title_full_unstemmed | Evaluating healthcare practitioners’ views on store-and-forward
teledermoscopy services for the diagnosis of skin cancer |
title_short | Evaluating healthcare practitioners’ views on store-and-forward
teledermoscopy services for the diagnosis of skin cancer |
title_sort | evaluating healthcare practitioners’ views on store-and-forward
teledermoscopy services for the diagnosis of skin cancer |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6376520/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30792879 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2055207619828225 |
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