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Figure 1 is a Toronto platform where health professionals share and discuss anonymised patient cases — often described as Instagram for doctors. Launched in 2013 by Joshua Landy, Richard Penner and Gregory Levey, it was acquired by Physician's Weekly in February 2024.

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About

Figure 1 grew out of critical-care physician Joshua Landy's observation that doctors learn from each other's cases but had no safe way to share them at scale. The app lets verified health professionals post de-identified images and discuss them, and became widely used by medical students and clinicians across North America. New Jersey's Physician's Weekly acquired it in February 2024; in June 2024 the two were placed under a new parent company, Formedics. Landy took the HealthTO stage in 2017 and the TechTO stage in 2018, the second time arguing for a Hippocratic oath for the tech industry.

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Quick answers

What is Figure 1?

A platform where verified health professionals share and discuss anonymised patient cases — images and clinical detail — as a way of learning from each other.

Who founded Figure 1?

Joshua Landy, a critical-care physician, with Richard Penner and Gregory Levey, in Toronto in 2013. Landy is Chief Medical Officer.

What happened to Figure 1?

Physician's Weekly acquired it in February 2024, and in June 2024 both were brought under a new parent company called Formedics.

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