OCTOBER - 20228By Jeanine Maguire, Vice President, Skin Health & Wound Care Integrations, GenesisByWound management has been the black sheep specialty within the medical arena that many healthcare professionals shy away from, especially when the wound type itself is often elusive at best. In some cases, the wound type is diagnosed based solely on documentation from a clinician and their subsequent best guess of the observed wound. Sometimes conflicting wound types are diagnosed for the same wound by different clinicians or across different settings. This is similar to how individuals may describe a home on an Airbnb very differently and chances are that without a photo, these descriptions may fall short of the real deal. Wounds are one of the rare medical conditions where a quality photo can indeed result in accurate wound type diagnosis, or at least lead to the right diagnostics for differential diagnosis. Increasing the ability of healthcare providers to accurately diagnose wounds is a major step toward mainstreaming the specialty of wounds managed by giving the clinicians an objective tool and confidence in directing care options. HOW INNOVATION IN WOUND MANAGEMENT IS ADVANCING CAREIn My OpinionJeanine Maguire
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