ARTICLE SUMMARY:
There is an opportunity to provide better and more cost-effective care for chronic wounds, and it doesn’t necessarily lie in new therapies. The wound care specialty faces some unique systemic challenges that create workflow inefficiencies and ultimately impact the quality of care. By filling in information gaps along today’s fragmented continuum of care, wound care companies developing mobile point-of-care wound assessment technologies and digital health solutions are making a difference.
Advanced wound care is hardly a clinical backwater—in the US, 6.5 million people have chronic wounds, and products for advanced wound care constitute an $8-15 billion global market (depending on the definition of "advanced")—but it feels like it is.
