A new smartphone app enables patients to send images of their surgical wounds from home to allow clinicians to monitor them for infections, which are a leading cause of hospital readmission after an operation.
The iOS app, called WoundCare, is HIPAA compliant and was developed by the Wisconsin Institute of Surgical Outcomes Research in the Department of Surgery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Researchers created an image-based mobile health protocol designed to help detect postoperative surgical site infections earlier in patients recuperating at home, seeking to avoid wound complications that require hospital readmissions.
