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)…
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…
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…
VirtualCare, Net Health’s partner for Tissue Analytics, recently attended one of the largest healthcare technology conferences in the world, MedInfo 2023, where it showcased its role in helping launch a first-of-its-kind Wound Care Command Centre in Sydney, Australia. The five-day event in Sydney featured some of the world’s leading experts in technology and healthcare, including Dr. Karen DeSalvo,…
PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Net Health, a leading provider of cloud-based software for specialty medical providers, today announced an expanded relationship with Healogics®, the nation’s leading operator of wound care centers and provider of world-class wound care services. Together, the two organizations will progress the wound care industry forward by integrating wound care technology from Net Health’s…
At Net Health, you could say we’ve grown used to our leadership being acknowledged for their expertise and commitment to healthcare. We have one of the strongest senior management teams in the industry, and their accomplishments are often recognized. Still, we are always gratified when one of our own is honored for the amazing work they do….
You’re a diabetic wound care patient in a rural area. The wound is getting worse, and moving around is difficult and painful. You know you need to see a specialist, but getting there is a problem, and you don’t have anyone to take you to the nearest town. What are you going to do? If…
Awareness months are synonymous with deserving topics, but some, however worthy, fall short of wide recognition. Designated by the American Board of Wound Management (ABWM), June is Wound Healing Awareness Month. That makes it the ideal time to think about the message behind the observation of an area in healthcare that, though prevalent, is still…
Can you imagine a world in which clinicians could predict patient healing times based on the current size and shape of a wound, or the risk of amputation based on current oxygen levels? You don’t need to imagine it. With predictive analytics, a new age of wound care is here. Predictive analytics is the latest configuration…
Wound care has come a long way since the days of manually measuring wounds and carefully recording encounter data into paper patient charts. Today, we have more data, insights, products and services to help treat wounds and ensure patients have access to optimal therapies. So, why aren’t pressure injuries, abscesses and other wounds a thing…