Liked. WTN on Window Mobile platform improves care quality, significantly lowers cost.  That might have been my tweet on Twitter.  But here on HealthBlog I have the luxury of sharing much more about this innovative approach for managing patients with chronic, non-healing wounds.

Every clinician understands the challenges associated with wound care.  The  process is slow, time-consuming, complex, and expensive.  Non-healing, ulcerations and wounds are associated with a variety of chronic conditions including diabetes, peripheral vascular disease and stasis.  Non-healing wounds are also associated with immobility due to aging, injury, paralysis, or other co-morbid conditions.  Many of these patients end up being hospitalized to treat secondary infections, or to provide the intensive regime needed to heal chronic ulcerations or wounds.  Hospitalization itself is risky as it exposes these susceptible patients to dangers they might not otherwise encounter in their home environment such as MRSA.

I was therefore delighted to learn about the good work being done by Wound Technology Network using the Windows Mobile platform. 

Keep in mind, this technology would work on a TPC as well, especially given the fact that many new TPC have a built in web cam. cmw

Wound Technology Network is a physician-based system, with a revolutionary new program that benefits patients, doctors and healthcare payers. WTN is the Nation’s only physician network-based telehealth comprehensive wound management system.

WTN designed a technological platform that vertically integrates a network system of wound healing services. This technological platform allows WTN to deliver all the advantages of physician-based services across the entire continuum of care. WTN achieves this through consistent utilization and adherence to evidence based clinical care, implemented across a digital infrastructure. The system has markedly decreased healing times as well as the costs of quality care with dramatically improved outcomes.

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