Archive for month: March, 2020
NEW TECHNOLOGY AT INSPIRA MEDICAL
Inspira Medical Center Woodbury adds new state-of-the-art technology to treat patients with wounds.
PATIENT TESTIMONIAL – HYPERBARIC OXYGEN THERAPY
Take a look at Tim’s story of using hyperbaric oxygen therapy at Inspira Health Network!
Oxygen sustains us with each breath we take. But did you know it can help your body heal and repair itself? When placed in a pressurized environment of 100% pure oxygen, your body’s natural healing mechanisms are given a boost, allowing for more rapid healing to occur.
Inspira now offers hyperbaric oxygen therapy at Inspira Medical Center Elmer and Inspira Medical Center Woodbury to treat patients suffering from a range of wounds due to diabetes, radiation therapy injury, vascular disease complications and more. With two new state-of-the-art hyperbaric chambers at each location, our trained wound care specialists have another evidence-based therapy to manage and heal chronic wounds.
For more information:
1-800-INSPIRA
InspiraHealthNetwork.org/wound-care
3D WOUND ASSESSMENT SOLUTION
Cambridge, MA. SerenaGroup™, the premier Wound Care management and Research Organization in the US, and eKare, Inc. announces inSight™ 3D Wound Assessment Solution to be introduced in SerenaGroup’s clinic worldwide. With the goal of transforming wound care using advanced analytics and sensor technology, eKare, Inc., a spin off enterprise from The Children’s National Health System in Washington, DC, introduces their new inSight™ 3D Wound Assessment Solution. inSight™ provides accurate and convenient 3D wound measurement and documentation at the point-of-care for pressure ulcers, diabetic foot ulcers, venous ulcers and other hard to heal chronic wounds. Built on an Apple iPad, inSight™ delivers an intuitive solution that enables clinicians to obtain a full set of 3D measurements by simply snapping a photo of the wound without direct patient contact. eKare co-founder and Chief Medical Officer, Kyle Wu, MD, states, “inSight™’s 3D sensing delivers objective metrics such as wound depth, area, and volume, as well as estimates of wound bed composition by appearance while reducing risk of nosocomial complications. And all this is accomplished right at your fingertips using inSight™ directly on an iPadtablet.” In addressing the question of clinical flow, eKare CEO, Patrick Cheng, commented, “our HIPPA-compliant cloud platform allows clinicians and providers to securely access, analyze and share the images and informatics generated from the eKare sensors. Clinicians can access the information when and where they need it, allowing for more effective remote monitoring and tele-collaboration,” Cheng said. With increasing emphasis on data transparency and quality improvement by the CMS, inSight™ will be integral to provider accreditation. Dr. Wu commented that “ inSight™ is positioned to facilitate compliance in meeting the skin and wound assessment requirements for the providers and become the ‘gold-standard’ for wound measurement and documentation” in meeting their reporting mandate. “The current methodology for measuring wounds in the wound clinic is inaccurate and not reproducible. It is essential that we incorporate advanced imaging techniques in assessing healing in our patients. It will allow us to identify patients in need of advanced potentially limb salvaging procedures earlier on in the course of their treatment,” said Thomas Serena, MD, FACS,CEO and Medical Director of SerenaGroup™ SerenaGroup™ is a global health care management company with the mission of developing the world’s leading Centers of Excellence in wound and hyperbaric medicine. SG has placed a special emphasis on clinical performance, outcomes, and serious clinical research in the Wound Care space.
