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Award-winning item: Medical digital camera/scope ["D'z IMAGE" DERMOCAMERA DZ-D100, DERMOSCOPE DZ-S50]
Business Owner: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
Category: Medical equipment and facilities
Company: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD. (Japan)
Award Number: 20G100614
Outline of Good Design Award winners: Outline of Good Design Award winners 2020

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Outline: To identify skin cancer early, Casio's applies its image processing technology to medical diagnostics with the collaboration of medical engineers and active clinical physicians. All necessary functionality of this innovative imaging diagnostics tool is built simply into the product's specs including dedicated software along with total service and hardware support for dermatologists' medical exams.
Producer: HOUJOU Yoshiharu, Medical Planning and Development Department, CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
Director: NAGAYAMA Yosuke, Design Unit, CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
Designer: SUGIOKA Shinobu, ISHII Kyouhei, YAMAMOTO Hirotsugu, MURATA Fumina, Design Unit/ MORITANI Shinichi, Application Development unit, CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
More information: https://dz-image-store.casio.jp/
[DZ-D100] 2019年5月27日発売　 [DZ-S50] 2020年3月16日発売: 2019/5/27

Evaluation

Aimed at the early detection of skin cancer, this product was praised for offering the full package of services to support examination, from imaging using the specialized camera to image processing using dedicated software, a monitor built into the rear of the camera, automatic forwarding to a PC viewer, and even filing. On the hardware side, the specialized camera has been developed to be user-friendly even for less-experienced doctors, thereby alleviating stress. The manufacturer’s determination to expand its business domains by applying to medical care the image processing technology that it cultivated in the digital camera realm was also highly praised.