A nurse and a ruler are no match for WoundMatrix, a strategic Web-based platform made by Chadds Ford wound care software and technology company ACEOS. WoundMatrix is also gaining significant traction as the future of wound care, which ACEOS VP and COO Sean Geary says has been in the dark ages.
“This jumps wound care light years ahead,” says Geary, who started ACEOS nine years ago after working with his father on another company that addressed wound care through its topical oxygen therapy, which could be applied by patients themselves. “It’s very scalable and can be deployed quickly and dramatically helps with insurance billing.”
In the last two months, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, Md., and VA Medical Center in San Juan, Puerto Rico, have adopted WoundMatrix, which automates the documenting of the healing process of various wound care therapies and regimens and also allows data to be accessed and reported from multiple sites. Nurses use digital cameras to take photos of wounds and upload them to WoundMatrix, which measures and identifies the wounds.
“Being able to have related codes within a database to correlate them with these pictures not only tracks patient progress in a large database, but measures outcomes in a meaningful way,” says Geary.
ACEOS successfully integrated WoundMatrix with Hopkins’ electronic medical records system. Hopkins also did a clinical study with the University of Pennsylvania that demonstrated WoundMatrix’s delivery and methodology. The study, which called WoundMatrix “reproducible and precise,” was published in the International Journal of Lower Extremity Wounds.
“It makes a difference in evidence-based medicine,” says Geary.
Source: Sean Geary, ACEOS
Writer: Joe Petrucci
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