Oro Health is now awaiting medical device certification for the DermSmart AI tool.

Oro Health and Dermago are unveiling the public version of DermSmart, a tool designed to classify skin types and minor skin conditions.

This new AI-driven version offers patients the ability to upload pictures of their skin condition, ask questions and interact with the tool in the same way as they would with a dermatologist. This virtual assistant is trained to assess the patient's skin condition and type and offer skincare routines and product recommendations.

"These last months, we worked very hard with our partner Dermago, our AI experts, and dermatologists to leverage our own skin-ailment detection model and augment a  large language model, or LLM, with dermatology-specialized knowledge,” says Bruno Morel, CTO at Oro Health in a news release. “This allows us to not only get an unprecedented recognition level for the most frequent 38 skin problems people encounter, better than any in the market, free or not.”

Oro Health is now awaiting medical device certification for the DermSmart AI tool.

Over the past three years, Oro Health and Dermago collaborated to developed an advanced learning algorithm on a proprietary dataset comprising more than 100,000 clinical images classified by two board-certified dermatologists, with the aim of providing a tool for assessing skin conditions and making care recommendations.

"Medical device certification will enable the tool to be offered to primary care professionals as well as patients directly to identify the skin condition and speed up care. We believe DermSmart could significantly reduce the number of referrals sent to dermatologists and cut waiting lists,” says Dr. Émilie Bourgeault, B.Sc, M.D., dermatologist (FRCPC), CEO of Oro Health.