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Burden of Wounds in the United Kingdom


Chadds Ford, PA, June 28, 2021 -The HealthTech and wound care industry is a key enabler for supporting patients experiencing the many issues associated with having a chronic wound, and the ‘Burden of Wounds’ study from Guest et al, provides us with insight into the nature of wound care service delivery in the UK, and the changes needed to shape future care. This infographic from ABHI and SDMA summarises the study, highlighting how technologies only represent a fraction of wound care spend. Rather, they should be viewed as enablers of improved care, with procurement based on the overall value to the system.

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WoundMatrix joins the Association of British HealthTech Industries (ABHI)


WoundMatrix is proud to announce its membership with ABHI.

ABHI is the UK’s leading industry association for health technology (HealthTech). The Association supports the HealthTech community to save and enhance lives, and its 300 members, who account for approximately 80% of the sector by value, supply products from syringes and wound dressings to surgical robots and digitally enhanced technologies.

The function of ABHI is to represent the industry to stakeholders, such as the government, the NHS and regulators, with work shaped by Its member community.

HealthTech plays a key role in supporting delivery of healthcare and is a significant contributor to the UK’s economic growth. The industry is now the largest employer in the broader Life Sciences sector, employing 131,800 people in 4,060 companies, with a combined turnover of £25.6bn. The industry has enjoyed growth of around 5% in recent years.


Learn more about ABHI at www.abhi.org.uk

WoundMatrix Partners with Insight for Cloud Hosting Services


Chadds Ford, PA, June 1 ,2021 -WoundMatrix has partnered with Insight UK, a leading provider of technology solutions, to host its WoundMatrix Mobile Wound Management software in the UK. Insight offers WoundMatrix via its cloud platform to customers desiring an easy, secure, and integratable wound imaging and documentation solution. WoundMatrix Senior Vice-President Paul Geary says, “The partnership offers us a key advantage, allowing for the seamless, instant installation of WoundMatrix in an affordable and secure hosting environment to customers located anywhere in the UK." Insight currently has a presence in 19 countries around the globe and has been serving customers since 1988. WoundMatrix has been a leader in mobile wound imaging and documentation since its inception in 2000, serving the private, institutional, CRO and government sectors.

Learn more at www.uk.insight.com and www.woundmatrix.co.uk or contact Paul Geary at +1 484 431 2014

Partnership Aids Mobile Wound Care - Health Tech Insider

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October 25, 2017 - It’s no surprise that technological advances have driven the growth of virtual care and nursing telemedicine (remote diagnosis and treatment of patients) in recent years. One area of healthcare where that’s been especially useful is wound care. The need for wound treatment and management typically outpaces the number of available healthcare practitioners to provide it. Now a U.S. based company has partnered with a United Kingdom community health foundation in the development and implementation of a new telemedicine and wound care program. U.S. based Woundmatrix is the creator of a telehealth solution that allows patients to upload wound images to healthcare practitioners for immediate assessment and wound care monitoring. The Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust (KCHFT) is a United Kingdom not-for-profit, community health provider. The two entities have entered into a 10-year partnership agreement with the goal of improving patient wound care while reducing the cost per individual case. According to a Woundmatrix press release, identifying, preventing, and treating wounds accounts for 60 percent of the community nursing workload. The WoundMatrix mobile application will allow KCHFT nurses and clinicians to monitor and track patient wounds, including sores and pressure ulcers, on mobile tablets in real time. Wound care specialists in Kent were key players in the design of the mobile app. Based on high-definition wound images, care providers will be able to “assess and prescribe next steps quicker and more effectively, making sure patients consistently receive good quality wound care.” The app technology allows healthcare providers to map the wound bed and measure each tissue type so that a comparison can be made with previous assessments. WoundMatrix CEO Sean Geary stated in the release that “The 10-year partnership between WoundMatrix and KCHFT could revolutionize wound care in the home.” While technology-assisted wound care can’t replace the clinical expertise of healthcare staff, it can aid clinicians in the accurate assessment and treatment of wounds, and reduce the time and cost required to deliver quality care. It could also potentially prevent unnecessary doctor’s office and ER visits and deliver expert wound care to patients in under-served rural areas.


For more information or to receive a custom quote for a WoundMatrix solution, please contact us today.

WoundMatrix Awarded Digital Wound Management System Agreement with Premier

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Chadds Ford, PA, March 20, 2018 (BUSINESS WIRE) - WoundMatrix Inc., an industry leader in clinician mobile wound documentation, measurement and outcome tracking solution for any home or clinical setting, has been awarded a group purchasing agreement for Digital Wound Management Systems with Premier. Effective March 1, 2018, the new agreement allows Premier members, at their discretion, to take advantage of special pricing and terms pre-negotiated by Premier for WoundMatrix, a cutting-edge, tablet-based Digital Wound Management and Telehealth Solution. “This agreement will make our innovative wound imaging technology accessible to thousands of members through the Premier alliance, contributing to better health outcomes at a lower cost for Premier members and patients,” said WoundMatrix CEO Sean Geary. “We’re excited and look forward to our work together.” The WoundMatrix solution offers the latest mobile tablet technology to allow healthcare providers to accurately capture, measure and instantly upload wound images, measurements and data elements at the patient point of care. Powerful data analytics can be immediately shared amongst providers and organizations to help improve patient outcomes, provider efficiencies, therapeutic interventions and reduce care costs. WoundMatrix utilizes real-time push notifications to alert providers to any changes in the system, including patient file updates and the creation of new data fields. In addition, the WoundMatrix administrative tools allow organizations to customize users, groups, sites, data fields and assign user privileges quickly and easily from the backend WoundMatrix database. Last October, WoundMatrix announced a 10-year partnership agreement with Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust (KCHFT) in the United Kingdom, which has launched its new telemedicine and woundcare program. KCHFT is redefining its patient care and projecting to make significant savings per individual case using WoundMatrix. Premier is a leading healthcare improvement company, uniting an alliance of approximately 3,900 U.S. hospitals and 150,000 other providers to transform healthcare. With integrated data and analytics, collaboratives, supply chain solutions, and advisory and other services, Premier enables better care and outcomes at a lower cost.

WoundMatrix enters 10-year partnership with Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust (KCHFT) in the United Kingdom to launch new telemedicine and wound care program aimed at redefining patient care

WoundMatrix Redefines Patient Care and Projects Healthy Savings for UK-based Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust ROI calculated to be thousands of pounds per caseload with mobile telehealth and big data analytics platform.


Chadds Ford, PA, October 19, 2017 - WoundMatrix Inc., an industry leader in clinician mobile wound documentation, measurement and outcome tracking solution for any home or clinical setting, announced it has entered into a 10-year partnership agreement with Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust (KCHFT) in the United Kingdom, which has launched its new telemedicine and woundcare programme. KCHFT is redefining its patient care and projecting to save the NHS thousands of pounds per individual case using WoundMatrix. Identifying, preventing and treating wounds accounts for 60 percent of the community nursing workload. The WoundMatrix mobile application, used by these nurses on mobile tablets, provides KCHFT clinicians with real-time access to monitor and track the progress of their patients’ wounds, including painful sores or ulcers, known as pressure ulcers. Nurses and clinicians can refer and access real-time high definition images, measurement and progress of the wounds and will be able to assess and prescribe next steps quicker and more effectively, making sure patients consistently receive good quality wound care. The grand opening of the specialist wound medicine centre, highlighting the WoundMatrix mobile application, was held at Sevenoaks Hospital on October 13, 2017 with prestigious guest including the local Member of Parliament, Sir Michael Fallon, KCHFT’s Chief Executive Paul Bentley and Chairman David Griffiths. Additional attendees included Sevenoaks’ League of Friends Chairman Ian Philip and President Roger Hope and KCHFT’s Sevenoaks Governor Jo Naismith. Sir Michael Fallon said, “This new centre is an important addition to our local health services because treating wounds requires specialist ongoing care. Its unique state-of-the-art equipment helps keep Sevenoaks one step ahead in the services it provides.” The WoundMatrix technology has been in development since 2000 and is so advanced it will allow clinicians to map the wound bed, meaning it accurately measures each tissue type so a comparison can be made with previous assessments. Sean Geary, CEO of WoundMatrix, said, “The 10-year partnership between WoundMatrix and KCHFT could revolutionize wound care in the home. The program is expected to reach 5000 users in the Kent community over the next two years.” “We are always looking to improve the way we manage wounds, including the prevalence of pressure wounds and diabetic ulcers, and are confident this technology is an absolute game-changer for community health services,” said Eldon Macarthur, KCHFT’s Head of IT Systems and Business Change. “The projected outcome of the new WoundMatrix platform includes a reduction in the GP prescribing budget and thousands of pounds saved per caseload, through an increase in the appropriate use of dressings, together with how regularly they are used or changed.” The WoundMatrix system has been designed as a support technology and does not replace the clinical expertise of our nurses but provides the evidence to assist them with their clinical decisions. In fact the nurse specialists responsible for wound care in Kent have been instrumental in the design of the application. In doing so they know it will enhance their capabilities for creating treatment plans with their patients, digitally capture the wound, allow users to define wound edges and tissue types and significantly reduce the time to assess and deliver a higher quality care and wound outcomes.

https://www.kentcht.nhs.uk/

For more information, contact Eldon Macarthur at: eldon.macarthur@nhs.net


Partnership Aids Mobile Wound Care - Health Tech Insider

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October 25, 2017 - It’s no surprise that technological advances have driven the growth of virtual care and nursing telemedicine (remote diagnosis and treatment of patients) in recent years. One area of healthcare where that’s been especially useful is wound care. The need for wound treatment and management typically outpaces the number of available healthcare practitioners to provide it. Now a U.S. based company has partnered with a United Kingdom community health foundation in the development and implementation of a new telemedicine and wound care program. U.S. based Woundmatrix is the creator of a telehealth solution that allows patients to upload wound images to healthcare practitioners for immediate assessment and wound care monitoring. The Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust (KCHFT) is a United Kingdom not-for-profit, community health provider. The two entities have entered into a 10-year partnership agreement with the goal of improving patient wound care while reducing the cost per individual case. According to a Woundmatrix press release, identifying, preventing, and treating wounds accounts for 60 percent of the community nursing workload. The WoundMatrix mobile application will allow KCHFT nurses and clinicians to monitor and track patient wounds, including sores and pressure ulcers, on mobile tablets in real time. Wound care specialists in Kent were key players in the design of the mobile app. Based on high-definition wound images, care providers will be able to “assess and prescribe next steps quicker and more effectively, making sure patients consistently receive good quality wound care.” The app technology allows healthcare providers to map the wound bed and measure each tissue type so that a comparison can be made with previous assessments. WoundMatrix CEO Sean Geary stated in the release that “The 10-year partnership between WoundMatrix and KCHFT could revolutionize wound care in the home.” While technology-assisted wound care can’t replace the clinical expertise of healthcare staff, it can aid clinicians in the accurate assessment and treatment of wounds, and reduce the time and cost required to deliver quality care. It could also potentially prevent unnecessary doctor’s office and ER visits and deliver expert wound care to patients in under-served rural areas.


For more information or to receive a custom quote for a WoundMatrix solution, please contact us today.