Your Experts in Skin Health – Get an Online-Consultation during Corona

We talked to Christian Greis of Derma2go on how to get Get advice from a dermatologist online – without an appointment and this is what he said about it.

First of all, how are you and your family doing in these COVID-19 times? 

Christian Greis: After having all negative corona swabs, we are happy to celebrate Christmas together.

Tell us about you, your career, how you founded Derma2go.

Christian Greis: I am a dermatologist at the University Hospital of Zurich and the founder of the telemedicine startup derma2go. I founded the company in 2018 with my co-founder, Vahid, an IT-specialist. Together we have almost 30 years of experience in the IT and dermatology fields.

How does Derma2go innovate? 

Christian Greis: Derma2go offers patients the opportunity to get a medical consultation online by an outstanding expert in the field of dermatology. Patients do not have to wait up to 3 months anymore to see a dermatologist in person and get the right treatment within hours by one of our experts.

How the coronavirus pandemic affects your business, and how are you coping?

Christian Greis: Covid pushes digitization in general – especially the ehealth sector benefits from the current situation. We experienced 250-300% increased traffic within the last two waves of the corona.

Did you have to make difficult choices, and what are the lessons learned?

Christian Greis: Focus, focus, focus.

How do you deal with stress and anxiety?

Christian Greis: Sports & days-off (not necessarily on Christmas.

Who are your competitors? And how do you plan to stay in the game?

Christian Greis: There are different online consultation services in the market for general medicine and focused on dermatology. We sell our service as we offer high-quality expertise in the subdisciplines of dermatology with outstanding opinion leaders in that field. With this centralized teledermatology, we reach very high patient satisfaction.

Your final thoughts?

Christian Greis: Corona shows us the trend of digitization. Even though we expect some decreases after the pandemic, we expect the current time to be a proof of concept for the mid-term future.

Your website?

www.derma2go.com