Figure 1, the picture and the sharing of information for the service of the medical profession, is the next step in its evolution to become a social network based on the image to the physicians.
Yesterday, the company quietly launched a new version of its photo and sharing of service information, which allows users to create more robust profiles of themselves and create groups around institutions or interests.
The updates to the application reflect a huge increase in the adoption of the user since the company launched a little more than a year. Currently, there are approximately 3.5 images per second medical available on the site, said Levey. And earlier this week, the company hit about 50 million image views.
Toronto 1 was like Instagram, but for doctors. The founders of the company take great care to ensure no information identifying patients who appears in the photo sharing app. Instead the idea is for physicians other than interesting cases among themselves.figure 1 in service 2
Figure 1 was born concerns company co-founder, Dr. Joshua Landy has when you look at the way in which doctors and medical students use smart phones in hospitals and research universities. What is the Group was found that doctors and students use social media to share information on patients and did it in a way that does not protect the privacy of the patient or to store records in a meaningful and safe manner.
"Tens of thousands of times a day patient and educational images files are transferred from a provider of health care to the health care provider", explains Dr. Landy. "" We have thought of a way to try to preserve and protect these information in an archive that is searchable and useful. ""
The co-founders: Landy, Gregory Levey and Richard Penner, launched the application may 2013 and it is now available on both iOS and Android platforms.
For doctors, this is a way to share knowledge virtually with other doctors around the world. A simple photo and comment on a single case can lead to collaboration and the creation of new bodies of knowledge with doctors at odds, explains Dr. Landy.
"We have really two precious things," explains Levey. We focus on the product and growth and the displacement of a bit of educational information to more practical that we means can be used by groups of care and other professional organizations.
The application has already attracted users to more than 10% of all students in medicine in the United States "If you look at the application, it's great from a perspective of education. Now, pushing us for groups of care, different medical practices and hospitals to adopt and that is where it will have a real utility. "
With the new version, users have the possibility to follow situations, and collaborate with physicians around the world. The new iteration of Figure 1 includes more robust biographies, taking the implementation of anonymous e-mail to a more robust social networking function, said Levey. Doctors connect to the service via an API with a doctor - door, Doximity networking service.
Ultimately, the company sees itself as part of a group of new applications such as Doximity and HealthTap, which provide the tools of social networking for consumers and adding functions that medical professionals may need to do their job better.
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