When I was eight, I was on a hike with my family in northern California when my older brother decided he didn’t want to hike anymore, so he grabbed a handful of poison oak and smeared the leaves over his arms. Naturally we had to turn around and head home after that,...
The team at First Derm is delighted to announce that in the latest version of our app, users can pay with Bitcoin. We are the first ever health app to integrate Bitcoin as an in-app payment option. In partnership with BitPay, you can now use a mobile Bitcoin wallet...
First Derm’s founder, Dr. Alexander Börve, authored a teledermatology study that should change the way skin cancer patients are triaged worldwide. With 1,562 participants, this is the largest study of its kind to date. In the study, participants were seen in...
Telehealth connects patients with physicians and nurses when they need answers to medical questions, wherever they are. Given the speed of innovation, many Americans aren’t sure what telehealth is, how it will impact their lives, and are hesitant to accept the advice...
In the United States, there’s a shortage of primary care physicians (PCPs) and an uneven geographic distribution of those physicians across the country. The average wait time to see a physician in the United States, according to Merritt Hawkins, is 18.5 days. If you...
In a world where people are making money off shared data, anonymity is valuable. The reality is that even conducting a Google search of your symptoms means that someone (often, many companies) are collecting information about where you are and the nature of your...
