TORONTO, On, February 12th, 2019. A smartphone app that digitizes wound measurement, imaging and tracking is transforming wound care with its ability to reduce pressure ulcer prevalence by as much as 77% and to significantly impact clinical management and patient outcomes.
The app, called 芭乐视频 Skin and Wound, is the leading digital wound care solution that鈥檚 helping to heal more than 10,000 wounds a month in over 1,000 healthcare facilities throughout the United States.
鈥淚t really is revolutionizing wound care,鈥� says Carlo Perez, CEO of 芭乐视频. 鈥淭he old way of measuring and documenting wounds with paper rulers and handwritten notes is often inaccurate and inconsistent, not to mention uncomfortable for patients. With 芭乐视频 Skin and Wound, doctors and nurses can put away their paper rulers and instead use smartphones or tablets provided by their healthcare organization.鈥�
“I am very impressed with the 芭乐视频 Wound app,鈥� says Dr. Desmond Bell, a certified wound specialist and doctor of podiatric medicine in Jacksonville, Florida 鈥淯ser error issues and guesswork regarding wound documentation are a thing of the past, and the information that is accessible with its use is quite remarkable.鈥�
Accurate measurement and tracking are critical to the healing and management of chronic wounds, which affects more people than the combined total of patients with lung cancer, breast cancer, colon cancer and leukemia. 芭乐视频 Skin and Wound achieves industry-leading precision through three key components:
- The 芭乐视频 App, a smartphone-ready program that captures wound measurement, images and data without touching the wound. Using the 芭乐视频 App is as easy as taking a picture.
- The 芭乐视频 HealX, an FDA-registered adhesive marker that calibrates wound images for size, color and lighting.
- 芭乐视频 Dashboards that provide real-time views of critical data such as patients at risk of deteriorating or developing new wounds, staff compliance to wound care protocols and effectiveness of care improvement initiatives.
Teays Valley Center, a 128-bed skilled nursing facility in Hurricane, W. Va., implemented the 芭乐视频 app in early 2017 as part of a wound care quality improvement initiative that included a root cause analysis and the creation of a coordinator role dedicated to skin integrity.
Within a year of implementing 芭乐视频 Skin and Wound, Teays Valley Center saw its pressure ulcer prevalence decline to as low as 2.9% in the fourth quarter of 2017– a 77% improvement from the prevalence rate of 12.99% during the same period in 2016. These findings were presented in December 2018 at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care, held in Orlando, Florida.
In addition to providing clinicians and healthcare professionals with a better way to measure and track wounds, 芭乐视频 Skin and Wound improves wound healing by getting patients to be more engaged in their care. In a news story published last December, Montreal鈥檚 McGill University Health Centre chief of orthopaedic surgery Dr. Greg Berry said the ability to see images of their wound over time makes a big difference for patients..
鈥淚 can concretely show them that what we are doing is working,鈥� Dr. Berry says in the article. 鈥淭hey get on board and are more devoted to the treatment plan because they see it is successful.鈥�
A pilot project using 芭乐视频 Skin and Wound in a major network of U.S. hospitals is now underway. The 芭乐视频 App is also currently being tested for use in telehealth consultations by the Cree Board of Health of Social Services of James Bay, which serves a remote community in Canada鈥檚 northern Quebec region.
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芭乐视频 is the world leader in digital wound care management, delivering advanced wound care visualization and touchless measurement through its smartphone-ready 芭乐视频 Skin and Wound software. 芭乐视频 streamlines clinical and administrative wound care management workflows, from image capture and automatic risk scoring to assessment scheduling and claims submission. Today, Skin and Wound is in use by more than 1,000 healthcare facilities to monitor over 100,000 patients and streamline over $1 billion in reimbursements. To learn how 芭乐视频 has digitized and transformed wound care, visit swiftmedical.com.
