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Secure photo sharing for podiatrists: off WhatsApp

Patients and carers send foot photos through Zanda's client portal into the record, not to your own phone. From about $20£15€18A$29C$28 a month.

At a glance

  • What it costs$20£15€18A$29C$28 a month

  • Worth, in extra profit or time saved in the worked example$137£103€123A$198C$194 a month

  • Pays for itselfIn about a week

  • Sign up and configure; no technical skills neededEasy to set up

Figures come from the worked example below, using its stated assumptions. Tool prices checked . How we check prices

The problem

Patients and carers send photos of a sore toe or a dressing by WhatsApp to the podiatrist's own phone, where they sit outside the record. If 8 photos a week arrive that way and saving each to the notes takes 5 minutes, that's 40 minutes a week, about 2.9 hours a month (40 x 4.3 / 60), plus health data left on a personal phone.

What the AI does

Zanda offers two-way sharing of files between practice and clients through the client portal and online forms, up to 30 MB a file. Patients and carers upload photos to the portal, so the podiatrist reviews them in the system and nothing is kept on a personal phone. The podiatrist decides what a photo means and whether the patient needs to be seen.

A worked example

A podiatrist in Cornwall gets about 8 foot photos a week from patients and carers on WhatsApp. They switch to uploads through Zanda's portal and tell patients that's where photos now go.

Before

8 photos a week saved from WhatsApp by hand: about 2.9 hours a month

After

Photos arrive in the system; about 1 minute each to review, about 0.6 hours a month

What it's worth

About $137£103€123A$198C$194 a month of the podiatrist's time, at an assumed $60£45€54A$86C$85 an hour, against $20£15€18A$29C$28 for Zanda Starter. That's 4 minutes saved on each of 8 photos a week: 32 minutes x 4.3, about 2.3 hours. The bigger gain is getting patient photos off a personal phone.

How to set it up

  1. Turn on the client portal in Zanda and check that uploading works from a phone browser.
  2. Tell patients and carers that photos now go through the portal, and say on the upload page that it isn't watched all day.
  3. Move any photos already on your phone into the record, then delete them from your phone and WhatsApp.
  4. Set a time each day to review uploads, and ring the patient if anything needs action.
  5. Update your privacy notice to cover photos sent through the portal.

What goes wrong

  • A photo isn't an assessment. Tell patients with signs of infection, a new wound or a diabetic foot problem to ring or get urgent care, not to wait for you to see an upload.
  • Uploads aren't monitored around the clock. Make that clear wherever patients send photos.
  • Some carers will keep using WhatsApp out of habit. Reply asking them to use the portal instead of saving the photo yourself.
  • Zanda's pricing page doesn't say where UK data is hosted. Ask, and get a data processing agreement.

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Last updated October 17, 2026.