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How a skin blemish led to a doctor and businessman founding medtech company DermView

Businessman Eoin O’Reilly’s firm allows for fast diagnoses of skin cancer and other ailments and the medtech came about after O’Reilly discovered he had a skin condition himself

Eoin O’Reilly, chief executive and founder, DermView: ‘We knew we had the product right and it was just about bringing it to market.’ Picture: Fergal Phillips

Personal necessity was what inspired Eoin O’Reilly to set up DermView, the Irish medtech business.

The company’s technology enables patients to receive fast diagnoses of skin cancer and other skin aliments, and provides people with access to GPs, surgeons, consultant dermatologists and plastic surgeons within a 12-week time frame, according to O’Reilly, who himself has a varied business background.

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