Large practices take hundreds or thousands of photos a month. Multiple back office staff personnel are tasked with shooting photos. Photography training costs, poor photo image quality, and inconsistent color and lighting issues must be dealt with.

Most practices have developed ad-hoc procedures for identifying who is in a picture. Manual procedures for transferring pictures into computer folders are labor intensive and result in a large unsearchable collection of pictures.

A picture inherently conveys a lot of information, but without keeping track of the reasons for taking the picture, the value of your pictures is reduced significantly. Annotations include reasons for the patient visit, key features and measurements, and location of features of interest.

Hard copy printouts are expensive. Depending on the quality of the ink or toner and paper, prints will fade over time. Prints will never convey the full quality source digital images can. If you delete your digital pictures, you leave your practice open to potential liability.

• Don't I need to be trained as an amateur photographer to get consistent, decent looking photos?
• Is a dedicated photography room required in my practice?
• What if I need to take pictures of a patient who visits more than one office location?

• How quickly can I locate a particular photo for a patient taken from any patient visit service date?
• Can I compare changes in a patient feature of interest across the visit history?
• Can I easily access photos and email them or create memos or presentations with them?

• How often do I have pictures where I am unsure of who or what is in the picture?
• Do I use a marker to write on top of photos in order to document critical information?
• Do I have stacks of photo prints with no way to identify what I am looking at?

• Is there a better option than printing hard copy output of all of my patient photos?
• How can I include our patient photos in our electronic medical record system?
• Is there a fast and easy way for me to provide patients with a visual record of their visit procedure?