Smartphone foot assessment moves fitting beyond clinics

Remote imaging could shorten assessment workflows and support more personalised insole fitting without requiring hospital-based screening.

Foot-care businesses are using smartphone-based assessment tools to move parts of the fitting process outside traditional clinical settings and reduce the time required for initial screening.

Speaking during Medical Fair Asia 2026, Amos Hsu, Operations Manager at Dr. Foot Technology Co., Ltd., said the company is shifting part of the assessment process from hospitals to smartphone-based screening at home.

“In the past, you needed to do this in the hospital, and it basically took you one hour,” Hsu said.

The company now allows users to submit smartphone images from home. Those images are assessed alongside existing foot-profile data to distinguish between normal, high and low arches before an insole is selected.

For foot-care providers, the operational shift is less about the insole itself and more about whether initial assessment can be handled remotely without adding complexity to the fitting process.

Hsu said the company also uses data gathered from Asian users to support its assessment process.

The broader commercial test is whether remote screening can reduce reliance on in-person consultations whilst still giving providers enough information to make consistent fitting decisions.

If that can be achieved, smartphone-based assessment could help streamline customer intake and make personalised foot-care services easier to scale across different markets.