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Healthcare provider Ribera Salud and Legit.Health started working together in one of the group's hospitals, the Torrejón Hospital, to implement the revolutionary algorithmic technology that, 2 years later, has shown excellent results.

In 2020, the healthcare provider Ribera Salud and Legit.Health started working together in one of the group's hospitals, the Torrejón Hospital, to implement the revolutionary algorithmic technology that, 2 years later, has shown excellent results thanks to the amazing job done by the doctors.

The pandemic could be a blessing in disguise, as it forced the teams to truly push the possibilities of remote care to new heights. In this particular case, the team at Torrejón Hospital needed to follow up on the patient's treatment but could not ensure all of them could go to the medical centre due to COVID-19.

Under these circumstances at hand, Legit.Health was the perfect tool for the job.

Video Summary​

Watch Dr Elena Sanchez Largo's presentation: Artificial Intelligence for Remote Monitoring of Patients With Skin Conditions, where she lays out an overview of how the hospital uses Legit.Health's solution.

Next to Dr Sanchez-Largo, the co-founder of Legit.Health, Taig Mac Carthy, explains some of the key components of the solution, such as the severity measure feature, which automates the filling of scoring systems like PASI or SCORAD.

It is pretty easy to see how a telematic tool like Legit.Health can help to monitor patients remotely. But, how does it manage not to add to the doctor's workload by making them have to worry about yet another system? Let's find out.

First Step: Patient registration​

Implementing a new system into an established workflow is a dreaded task for most people. After all, that workflow has been honed and perfected along with years of adjustment and modifications, and including a new element to it can feel like throwing a wrench into a well-oiled machine.

Thankfully, the process of onboarding new patients is both easy and contained in time, as it only needs to happen once.

Once the doctors at Torrejón Hospital had access to their Legit.Health account (a process that barely takes two minutes) they just needed to, as a part of a visit, ask for the Patient's Name, Surname, Email, or Telephone, and input their Pathology information.

Onboarding​

The onboarding process only takes part once for each patient.

This process takes no more than a minute, and it only needs to happen once, but if you want to avoid it completely it is possible to avoid this step altogether thanks to Legit.Health's Dermatology API.

In Torrejón Hospital's case, the patients confirmed their account and logged in with their password on the spot, and were instructed by the doctor to check their email or phones for alerts asking them to take pictures for the monitoring.

In total, both doctors and patients have spent around 5 minutes combined to set up this process. And although at Torrejón Hospital the medical team chose to take this process into their own hands, at other centres they leave the patient registration step in the hands of their non-medical teams.

Second step: Follow up​

Once the system had been set up, each Torrejón Hospital patient began a continuous use loop, where the follow-up and monitorization process gets simplified by the algorithm into a single decision by the doctors.

Each time a patient uploads a picture, either because the doctor had set an upload pattern for them on their last visit or because they felt like their condition has changed significantly, the algorithm processes the information.

After analysing the image, if the algorithms detect an increase in severity or in the suspicion of malignancy or pre-malignancy, it will flag the picture as urgent and show it to the doctor first.

Continuous use​

Brief description of what Doctors and Patients do when using Legit.Health

The doctor then can, at any time, review all the pictures sent to them by their patients, being able to set up a face-to-face consultation if they think is necessary or simply send a message to the patients with indications about the treatment and the upload pattern.

This not only takes a minimal amount of work for the doctor for each patient, but in fact increases the efficiency significantly.

The true heroes of the story​

The implementation of new technology is most challenging for doctors, as they are already very busy with the clinical workload. Luckily, the great dermatologists at Torrejón are very innovative professionals, who aim at improving their daily practices by finding better ways to care for patients.

The main conclusion here is that technology comes second, and clinical talent comes first. If the medical team is talented and capable, any solution can flourish. And that is precisely what happened when Hospital U. of Torrejón implemented Legit.Health.

The best results we can show you of how this project has worked, are the words of some of the doctors involved:

Dr Elena Sánchez-Largo​

The use of applications for telematic follow-up allows the flow of information between doctor and patient without the need for face-to-face consultations, adjusting it to a more real time and allowing changes in the therapeutic attitude more quickly and effectively.

Dr Elena Sánchez-Largo has put Legit.Health to work with her Psoriasis patients at Torrejón Hospital, achieving great results.

She reports that 27% of her patients benefited from an early adjustment to their treatment, all thanks to the improvement in the communication between doctor and patient.

You can follow Elena Sánchez-Largo on twitter

Dr Marta Andreu​

This telematic follow-up prevented school absences in paediatric patients, work absences in adults, and allowed the follow-up of patients in quarantine due to COVID-19 or with diseases that make it difficult to travel. Both patients and their dermatologists showed a high degree of satisfaction with the use of the app, with 100% of patients interested in continuing to use the tool.

Dr. Marta Andreu puts into perspective the use of the app at Torrejón hospital, saying it was used in patients of Psoriasis, Atopic Dermatitis, Urticaria, Acne, and Hidradenitis Suppurativa. She highlights the good reception of the app from the patients and how its use improved the satisfaction they had with the medical centre.

You can find Dr. Marta Andreu on LinkedIn.

In future posts, we hope to highlight also the work and talent of their colleagues, such as Dr. Leticia Calzado, Dr. Marta Andreu, Dra. Marta Ruano or Dr. Javier Alcántara, to name a few. Truly highly innovative healthcare professionals who are exploring the best ways of caring for their patients and improving health systems.

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As every year the Ship2B Foundation has recognized, with the seal of social enterprise impact, different startups and companies that develop innovations in the area of health. Among them is Legit.Health, an application capable of detecting skin cancer through a simple photograph taken with a mobile phone. The aim is to create a space to promote technological innovations that help to improve the health and quality of life of people.

This pioneering technology, already in use in several hospitals such as the Torrejón University Hospital in Madrid, is presented as a tool that uses artificial intelligence to improve the lives of doctors and patients, thus creating a better healthcare community. As Andy Aguilar, CEO of Legit.Health, and patient with several skin diseases says: "We use artificial intelligence with the aim of helping the doctor to perform tasks that can be automated so that he can focus on what is more important: the patient".

The creators of this application are 4 young people with chronic dermatological pathologies. Therefore, they have created the first tool capable of providing doctors with the necessary tools to help them help their patients. The Ship2B Foundation states that this mark recognizes companies that, like Legit.Health, persistently pursues an improvement in health and social welfare. And they seek to respond to current health issues by providing doctors with the tools they need to diagnose diseases that affect millions of people.

An innovative technology in Spain that has a system capable of assisting doctors in the diagnosis and indicating the severity of the patient with respect to their pathology. Just by filling in, automatically, and with millimetric precision, the tedious measurement scales. Relieving health professionals by providing them with valuable information to make the right decision.

Legit.Health is a tool that allows both the doctor and the patient to get to the information in a very safe and quick way. It can be accessible at anytime from any device and there is no need to install anything. We made it incredibly easy-to-use.

Behind the team that runs Legit.Health, there is clear intentionality to respond to social challenges or problems. As Taig Mac Carthy, Co-founder of Legit.Health, says: "Our mission is to help doctors help their patients, the health system is oversaturated and doctors have more work than they can handle. What we're doing is using technology to make that workload more accessible and help them treat their patients better".

The objectives pursued by the entities recognized with the Ship2B seal are among the following: to solve a social problem with a focus on the patient, to be economically sustainable, and to make the proposed solution reach the greatest number of people and Hospitals.

About Ship2B Foundation​

Its mission is to promote the impact economy, translated as an economic model where the main goal of this organization is not only to maximize their economic profitability but also their social and environmental impact.

Ship2B was founded in 2013 with the aim of creating an ecosystem of impact, formed by startups, companies, investors and organizations, that responds to the greatest social and environmental challenges of society. Its goal is to select the best technology startup that has a high social and environmental impact in order to accelerate its growth.

A pioneering technology​

Legit.Health is a communication tool between doctors and patients that uses artificial intelligence and computer vision to help diagnose and monitor visible skin diseases. A platform, which is not only able to recognize what type of pathology appears in the photograph and help diagnose it, but also identify the degree of severity it has and track it.

The algorithms designed by Legit.Health are able to score automatically, and through a simple photograph, most medical grading systems such as PASI, SCORAD, UAS, GAGS and many more dermatological grading systems. This adds a layer of objectivity that was impossible until now.

This tool has managed to create a technology that adapts to the real-life situations of doctors and patients by helping healthcare professionals streamline their work, automating routine and administrative tasks to help them focus on what's most important: their patients.

In short, a platform capable of making a clinical diagnosis and an estimate of the severity of the pathologies with the same objective, to assist doctors in the diagnosis and indicate how serious the patient's pathology is.

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This free 23-day trial of Legit.Health gives clinics and hospitals a hands-on look at how to drive increased adherence and improve patient outcomes, as well as improving efficiency and overall quality of life.

The pharmaceutical company and startup catalyst has been part of BHH 2021, a project that brings together innovations for the patients of the future.

The startup Legit.Health, in partnership with Novartis Biome, has demonstrated the importance of innovation and technology in the field of healthcare when it comes to saving lives, by participating in the Barcelona Health Hub Summit (BHH). An event that brings together innovative companies and products from all over the world, this year 2021 is the turn of technological innovations designed for the patients of the future.

Legit.Health application is capable of detecting the presence of 232 skin diseases through a simple image taken with a mobile phone, including skin cancer

One of the main objectives of Novartis Biome is to connect Novartis and the digital health ecosystem to bring innovative high-impact solutions to patients and healthcare professionals, acting as a catalyst for impactful digital collaborations, creating value that extends beyond medicines.

During the ceremony, Clara Cuervo, leader of Novartis Biome Spain, a catalyst for startups in the healthcare technology field, spoke about "the importance for the evolution of medicine of bringing together companies capable of providing digital solutions that improve and prolong the lives of patients". Novartis believes that the union of science and technology is necessary to create healthcare solutions and seamless experiences for doctors and patients.

This has been fundamental in driving the brilliant technology that Legit.Health has developed. The founders, patients with chronic diseases, know how difficult it is to maintain fluid communication with the doctor. For this reason, they have developed an application that improves effective doctor-patient communication by translating the doctor's clinical language that the patient doesn't always understand.

Also, estimating the severity of pathologies is a daily challenge that many doctors have to deal with, a tedious and routine job that takes time away from treating the patient. Taig Mac Carthy, co-founder of Legit.Health and patient with skin diseases explain that "the app is not only able to identify the pathology seen in the photo, but it also estimates the severity of that pathology, in only 23 seconds."

In short, the app is presented as a support in the diagnosis and monitoring of diseases the solution to the problem that today's doctors are shouting out for. Legit.Health is able to collect the automatic results provided by the algorithms, as well as the results reported by the patient about their quality of life and the situation with their disease.

About Legit.Health Technology​

Legit.Health is the clinical data and communication tool developed to help doctors help their patients. Its algorithms are developed to automatically fill in medical scoring systems such as PASI, SCORAD, UAS or GAGS, and many more dermatological scoring systems.

The automatization of these scoring systems not only helps doctors and empowers the patient, but adds a layer of objectivity that was impossible until now. This technology helps dermatologists provide quicker diagnoses than the traditional way. It reduces the doctor's workload by allowing them to estimate the severity of the pathology quickly and objectively.

A tool that is already being implemented at Viewtech Mexico, and that merges objectivity and accuracy in pathology reporting, allowing doctors to maintain effective communication with their patients.

About Novartis Biome​

The Novartis Biome unites the best of science and technology to create better healthcare solutions and patient experiences. It was created as a bridge to help partners become an extension of our own teams, working with us as easily and productively as possible to jointly innovate and co-develop digital solutions at scale.

We're taking on some of the biggest healthcare challenges, something we can't and don't want to do on our own. We're committed to partnering with the best in the ecosystem to combine our deep scientific experience with the expertise of the tech world to develop scale digital solutions that improve and extend patients' lives.

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This free 23-day trial of Legit.Health gives clinics and hospitals a hands-on look at how to drive increased adherence and improve patient outcomes, as well as improving efficiency and overall quality of life.