Eyeball PASI

Every dermatologist caring for psoriasis patients is called upon to quantify the severity of each patient. This becomes increasingly important as reimbursement of newer systemic drugs requires the patients to be affected with moderate-to-severe psoriasis. However, we know from experience that dermatologists do not like to calculate the PASI. In fact, more than 90% of all dermatologists in practice tend to estimate rather than calculate the PASI. We have therefore created a tool to increase the accuracy of PASI estimation, based on pictures of real patients with known PASI values. This printed tool proved to be a great success and many hundreds of dermatologists use it regularly.

The Eyeball-PASI App builds up on this success by integrating the Eyeball-PASI visual approach in an app that serves as a calculator and an extension of the physicians’ patient management. The user utilizes his smartphone when grading the patients’ psoriasis and is guided through a quick calculation of the PASI. In addition, the visual examples are available as well to train the user.

As the final result, a beautiful table is created that the user sends to his desktop computer’s email to be pasted in the patient file. This way, the dermatologist keeps track of the patient’s PASI in an elegant, quick and accurate approach. We believe the Eyeball-PASI will appeal especially to younger dermatologists.