MedX Health Augments Skin Health Research With its Cloud-Based SaaS Platform

MedX Health Corp. has launched SkinSecure, a cloud-based SaaS platform that links its native SIAscope multi-spectral imaging devices directly to contract research organization (CRO) workflows.

SkinSecure maps collagen, melanin, and hemoglobin in living skin in a single capture, giving skin trials immediate, objective biomarker data across multiple sites and multiple subjects, with instant shared access to every result. Built on MedX’s patented SIAscopy technology—which powers its U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved DermSecure platform and backed by more than 30 years of peer-reviewed scientific heritage—SkinSecure fits directly into established trial protocols. For collagen endpoints, it offers an alternative to expensive, invasive punch biopsies, according to the company.

“Medicine established objective ways to measure our major systems long ago—the ECG for the heart, the EEG for the brain, the blood panel for what flows between them,” MedX Health CEO John Gevisser said. “Each became a standard. But what about skin, the body’s largest organ? We come at this challenge from first principles, and this gives us the method and the science to establish a new standard. It also enables us to track genuine biological change precisely over time and, uniquely, to measure collagen in absolute rather than relative or derivative terms.”

Enhancing the Way Industry Measures Skin Biology

The global collagen market was valued at $5.2 billion last year and is projected to grow 5.8% annually over the next nine years reach $8.7 billion by 2034, Global Market Insights research indicates. This is the entry segment for SkinSecure, spanning dermatology trials, aesthetic biostimulator studies, topical skincare validation, and MedSpa efficacy research. The non-invasive quantitative collagen measurement capacity of SkinSecure also unlocks materially-larger adjacent sectors:

• pharmaceutical therapeutic development (anti-fibrotic, regenerative medicine, oncology, wound healing)
• injectable and biologic biostimulators
• ingestible and nutraceutical validation
• energy-based medical devices and longevity research

Across all sectors, sponsors currently rely on invasive biopsy or indirect surrogate endpoints because no direct, quantitative in vivo collagen standard currently exists. Many CROs already run collagen-dependent programmes without a scalable biomarker—making SkinSecure a direct workflow replacement rather than a speculative use case. MedX is not entering a device category; it is establishing the quantitative standard by which skin biology will be measured in vivo across clinical research, aesthetics and consumer health, executives claim.

In CRO and pharmaceutical settings, collagen measurement has depended historically on punch biopsy—a procedure that carries high cost, logistics, and subject burden. Across a 200-subject, five-timepoint study, for example, direct biopsy costs can run into hundreds of thousands of dollars before ethics coordination, site management, and a potentially high subject dropout rate driven by procedure refusal. SkinSecure removes that workflow for collagen endpoints, at an annual platform cost that is a fraction of a single study’s biopsy spend.

“Every CRO running a direct collagen endpoint study today has had limited choice in terms of a measure—an invasive, expensive punch biopsy that by nature precludes longitudinal research, with subsequent expert histological analysis,” Gevisser stated. “With SkinSecure, there is now a new choice—immediately-available quantitative data, obtained non-invasively. With around 1,000 active collagen trials running worldwide right now, this is not a niche problem; it is the defining measurement gap in this vertical of skin research. SkinSecure fills this gap, with instant cost and time savings from the first timepoint—a solution the industry has never had.”

For cosmetics brands and consumer research, SkinSecure adds an objective, physics-based biological measurement layer to efficacy panels that have traditionally relied on subjective grading or surface-only imaging, thereby strengthening the evidence base behind product claims.

SkinSecure is built on proprietary, patented SIAscopy hardware and software—the same core technology has already been used by more than 29 CROs and sponsors worldwide to test their products’ efficacy. SkinSecure now delivers it as a cloud-based SaaS service.

A single SkinSecure deployment measures four primary skin molecular components at once in absolute biological units: collagen, melanin, dermal melanin, and hemoglobin. What would otherwise require multiple instruments, multiple protocols, and multiple analysis pipelines is delivered in a single non-invasive capture. No other device or platform on the market does this.

Measuring melanin and hemoglobin alongside collagen creates compound endpoint value, MedX Health officials noted. Biostimulator sponsors capture both the collagen-induction endpoint and the vascular (haemoglobin) response needed to characterize treatment mechanisms. Following adoption in CRO and sponsor-led workflows, consumer applications represent the largest downstream scaling opportunity.

“For much of my career, I have advocated for the importance of direct measurement of skin biology rather than its derivatives,” said Dr. Paul Matts, strategic advisor to MedX Health and an internationally-recognized skin researcher. “SkinSecure represents an important step forward because it enables the direct, concurrent, non-invasive measurement of collagen, melanin and haemoglobin in real time, creating new opportunities for researchers, product developers and clinicians to evaluate biological change with greater confidence. As the industry continues to move toward evidence-based decision-making, direct, objective measurement in vivo will become increasingly essential.”

MedX Health Corp. is a data-driven skin health analytics business underpinned by proprietary intellectual property and regulated medical technologies. MedX operates as an ISO 13485-certified medical device manufacturer with regulatory clearance across 38 territories, including the United States, United Kingdom, the EU, Australia, and New Zealand. The company’s platform supports clinical research, aesthetics, and population health applications. MedX also operates DermSecure, a FDA-approved teledermatology platform for triage of suspicious skin lesions. SkinSecure is intended for clinical investigational use only and is not intended for diagnostic use, treatment decisions, or routine clinical care.