On diabetic foot, wound healing, amputation prevention, and the merger of consumer tech with medical devices
A new formative study of an in-home full-color imaging scale offers a glimpse of the Foot Selfie’s next chapter—from early home plantar photography and smartphones to AI, co-creation, and ambient monitoring.
A new paper in BMC Health Services Research describes how we co-created a Foot Selfie app with, not for, people living with diabetes, caregivers, and clinicians in urban Lima and semi-rural Piura, Peru. Here is how the end-users redesigned remote diabetic foot surveillance to fit the rooms where it actually happens.
Perhaps the most comprehensive patient-centric owners manual in any language was released today by the team at Al Pie Peru. Led by Dra. Yudith Quispe, this work covers everything from daily checks to descriptions of mechanisms of wound healing. The manual is available here. The launch video of the book is here
