Medical photography, omnipresent in plastic surgery, provides essential information for medical records. Smartphones have become the preferred tool for acquiring these photographs, but pose a data security problem. In addition, the management of photographs is often manual and time consuming. The Pixacare software suite has been designed to meet this need in complete security. It includes a mobile application, a web application and an HDS server. The objective of the study was to calculate the time saved by the Pixacare application during data acquisition.
This prospective, single-center study was conducted in two phases to time acquisition times with the usual method and with the Pixacare mobile application. Each phase included 89 patients recruited in plastic and maxillofacial surgery consultations with four surgeons. The number of patients and average number of photographs per patient were comparable for each practitioner in both phases.
Le temps d’acquisition des données photographiques était divisé par 3,77 (p < 0,001). Avec la méthode usuelle, le temps d’acquisition moyen était de 259 secondes contre 69 secondes avec l’application Pixacare, faisant gagner 3 minutes et 10 secondes par patient.
The Pixacare software suite therefore saves the surgeon significant time while ensuring appropriate data security. This study does not take into account the additional time saved with the organization of medical meetings, the advantages of sharing photographs between healthcare professionals and the effectiveness of secure messaging.
