Teledermatology Market - Global Industry Insights, Trends, Outlook, and Opportunity Analysis, 2021-2025
Dermatology is the branch of medicine that deals with the skin, hair, and nails, as well as the diseases that affect them. It is a specialty that deals with both medical and surgical aspects. With the rapid advancement of telecommunication technology in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, the two came together in the form of the teledermatology industry. Dermatologists Perednia and Brown coined the term "teledermatology" in 1995. It is a subset of dermatology in which telecommunications equipment is used to transmit medical data via audio, video, and data means. It usually consists of dermatology photographs. The primary goals of the teledermatology market are long-distance knowledge exchange for doctors and researchers, getting a second opinion, and even serving patients suffering from chronic skin conditions in remote parts of the world. One of the primary drivers of the teledermatology market's expansion can also be a major impediment to its e...