Footnotes

• Contributors AS (main author)—conceived the idea of the digital care pathway—did service design and implementation of the system—did the main authoring work on this paper; MR, (second author)—coordinated the medical foundational work on the digital care pathway—contributed secondarily to authoring the paper. Other contributors to the paper (stated in the Acknowledgements section), who did medical foundational work on the digital care pathway, and also reviewing and commenting on the early draft of the paper: Trine Lilly Halvorsen, Jon Anders Halvorsen.

• Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

• Competing interests Both authors work for the company Askin—a commercial teledermatology service in Norway that delivers the digital care pathway described in this research. All contributors to this research are employed by Askin. The corresponding author’s contributions to the digital care pathway are service design, development and implementation. The second author’s contributions to the digital care pathway are medical foundations and service design.

• Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.