Documentation, progress, teaching — practices take photos that are health data. SchweizerIMG crops, compares, cleans and blurs them in your browser, on the practice computer. Not a single patient photo is uploaded to a cloud service, and we never receive one.
Processed on this device: three photos are processed by the image engine in the browser; the only request to the server names the tool, and the server never receives the images.
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Podiatry & care
The daily reality
Patient photos deserve the care of the patient file.
Four things every practice knows — and what replaces each one.
01
Cloud tools for patient photos
A quick crop on a free website means a patient photo on a server abroad — health data in hands nobody chose.
The tools run in your browser. The photos stay on the practice computer.
02
Before and after, never alike
Different crops, angles and sizes make progress photos hard to compare over weeks or months.
The same crop for a whole series, side by side, with a slider to compare.
03
What identifies a person
A face, a tattoo, a birthmark, a name tag — or the GPS position and date hidden in the file.
Hide areas for good in the export and remove the metadata in the same sitting.
04
Too large to send securely
Photos from the tablet are too big for the secure e-mail service the practice uses.
Resized and compressed to what your channel accepts — and checked before it goes out.
Practice images
The images a practice deals with.
Most of them show patients — and all of them deserve the same care as the patient file.
Documentation photos
Pictures taken during treatment to document a finding or a course of therapy.
Before-and-after series
Comparisons over weeks or months that only make sense with the same framing and size.
Photos for colleagues
Images shared with a specialist — with consent, and only what is needed.
Teaching and case discussions
Pictures for training and lectures, where the person must not be recognisable.
Website and practice information
Rooms, equipment and the team, and patient examples only with explicit consent.
Pictures from patients
Photos patients send or bring along, with location and device data they rarely know about.
The tools for this work
Each one runs in your browser, on one image or a whole batch. Tools marked “Pro” are part of the Pro and Business plans.
From the treatment room to the record — four steps.
Processed on this device: three photos are processed by the image engine in the browser; the only request to the server names the tool, and the server never receives the images.
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Processed on the practice computer
The engine works in your browser; the only request to our server names the tool, never the photo.
Blur or pixelate: a box is drawn over a car's number plate, added as an area and hidden — the plate comes back pixelated.
2
Hide what identifies the patient
Faces, tattoos or a name tag disappear under a box — irreversibly in the exported file.
Remove metadata: a photo's location, serial number, software, camera and date are removed, and the report ends with nothing private found.
3
Remove the hidden data
Location, device and date are removed without touching the image, and the report confirms it.
Resize: a 4000-pixel product photo is resized to 1200 pixels on its longest side for an online shop, at a fraction of its file size.
4
Small enough to send
Resize and compress to the size your secure channel accepts, with the saving shown.
Confidentiality, handled
Built for health data.
Photos of patients are health data, which the FADP treats as sensitive personal data (Art. 5 let. c FADP), and many health professions are bound by professional secrecy (Art. 321 SCC). SchweizerIMG keeps the images out of everyone else's reach: they are processed in your browser, and we never receive them — no pixels, no file names, no sizes.
Health data as sensitive data (Art. 5 let. c FADP)
No disclosure to us. Photos are processed on your device and never transmitted. About your photos, the server only learns which tool ran and whether it finished.
No image analysis, no AI. The tools crop, compare, blur and clean files; any clinical assessment stays with you.
Originals under your rules. Blurring and metadata removal apply to the exported file; keep or delete the original by your practice's retention rules.
This page describes what SchweizerIMG does, not your legal obligations — consent, secure transmission and retention remain your practice's responsibility.
Pricing
One practice computer, one subscription.
Priced per account, not per patient. Choose by how many photos you document each month.
Every plan processes your images on your device. Cancel any time.
FAQ
Questions from practices.
The tools process images on your computer and never transmit them to us, so we do not receive patient data. Whether the tool fits your practice's data-protection concept is your assessment — the security page and the data processing agreement describe exactly what we process.
No. There are no AI features and no automatic analysis. The tools crop, compare, blur and clean files; any clinical assessment stays with you.
HEIC photos open in Safari, which decodes them itself. In other browsers, set the iPhone camera to Most Compatible or convert the photos to JPEG first.
Each person has their own account and plan. There is no shared team workspace — every result stays on the device where it was created.
No — there is no integration or API. You save the results and file them in your practice software as before.
No. SchweizerIMG prepares the files; sending them stays with your secure e-mail or the channel your practice uses.
Read more
Before you decide. The longer arguments behind this page — written for readers, not for buyers.
