How HAPI Management Can Make or Break Your Bottom Line
Five issues hospital teams must address to optimize their HAPI management program For busy hospital staff, caring for patients with pressure injuries (PIs) is difficult, complex, and often frustrating. Within a hospital setting, PIs are defined by the acronym HAPI, which stands for Hospital Acquired Pressure Injuries. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)…
How to Get More from Your Wound Care EHR Data
10 questions that help turn data into actionable insights What’s one of the most widely used words in healthcare today? Chances are it’s “data.” It’s everywhere, from reporting performance and outcomes to exploring demographics and staffing patterns. The question for today is: are you using data to create actions that lead to meaningful change? Or…
Predicting the Future of Wounds with AI and Analytics
How Hospitals are Leveraging Predictive Analytics to Improve Clinical Outcomes In this blog post, we provide an overview of analytics that have been deployed in wound care in the past and examine how predictive analytics is now being applied to improve clinical and operational processes. We’ll review: While data and analytics are already playing a…
Top 5 Digital Tips to Reduce Hospital-Acquired Pressure Injuries
Make you, your leaders, and patients happy by avoiding HAPIs All clinicians strive to prevent hospital-acquired pressure injuries (HAPIs)…and for good reason. Stage III, Stage IV, and unstageable HAPIs are categorized as “never events” under the CMS Hospital-Acquired Condition (HAC) program1 and can lead to substantial penalties and lost reimbursement. About 2.5 million patients acquire…
WOW
Wild on Wounds (WOW) is among the largest wound care conferences in the nation, focused on advancing our healthcare workforce with impactful, hands-on wound care education built by and for clinicians. We welcome all wound care clinicians and other dedicated caregivers who share a passion for improving outcomes in the lives of their patients. WOW fosters…
