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INFECTION PREVENTION


right dressing, at the right price, at the right time. If we can do this, patient outcomes will improve and total healthcare budgets will decrease or allow the greatest resource, staff, to be deployed in other value-add areas.”


Vancive Medical


Technologies' silicone foam dressing


noted Saunders,


the medical fa- cility benefits from the less- frequent dress- ing changes and


the resultant reduced personnel costs. “The combination of transparency, absorbency, and being bactericidal are the functions that will most likely improve the outcome while at the same time allowing the patient and healthcare provider to visualize the wound and assess its progress, without the insult of repeated dressing changes and associated costs.”


Saunders concluded, “As they say ‘buy cheap, buy twice. The sill is fi nding the


Outsourcing wound management


Woundtech reduces costs of wound care by bringing the care to the patient’s home. Their telehealth platform brings together healthcare providers, patients, and insurance companies. Data about the wounds and their treatment is analyzed for a personal approach. Jeffrey Galitz, MD, DPM, FACFAS, DABPS, CEO, CMO, Woundtech, said they combine “best evi- dence-based care driven by technology in a high- touch, high-tech meth- odology.” He said that Woundtech heals 30 per- cent more wounds thirty percent faster than other


Jeffrey Galitz


wound-care providers. “By bringing the wound-care center to the patient and uti-


lizing the best wound-care products, we are able to achieve these results.” Galitz talked about costs. “Woundtech saves health plans approximately 70 percent in direct costs, lowers wound- related hospitalizations by 95 percent, and eliminates 95 percent of expensive, unproven modalities. Woundtech em- ploys advanced practitioners including, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, podiatrists, and physicians.”


Dressings that minimize wound trauma


The fewer dressing changes a patient has to endure is good for the patient. It is also good for reducing costs. David Venner, Vice President, Sales and Marketing U.S., Wound Care, Mölnlycke Health Care explained their approach. “Mölnlycke Health Care’s focus on innovation and research has resulted in state-of-the-art dressings for both pressure-injury preven- tion and wound management. Among the most recent advances is Mepilex Border Flex, specifically designed to support fewer dressing changes, reducing dress- ing costs and waste, while creating an


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