Tech-Enabled Wound Management: Free Tools to Measure Wounds

Like many areas of healthcare, delivering optimal wound management during the pandemic has faced enormous challenges while lock-down orders have rolled across the country and clinical staff resources are temporarily channeled into local COVID-19 responses.

Lock-down restrictions have exacerbated many of the pain points wound management clinicians were acutely aware of, primarily a standardized way to easily and accurately measure whether patients' wounds were improving or deteriorating. Now there's a free option, finally!

"You can only improve what you measure, so let's measure wounds healing accurately"

The majority of tools and systems available to date are either grossly expensive or technically challenging to implement with regards to data privacy and integrating with health services' existing IT infrastructure.

"The technology is already in your pocket, now you can use it to improve clincial practice - It's remarkabe!"

Now finally, there is one such tool that is available for free, an application that uses the ever-improving camera in your smartphone to provide instant and accurate wound area measurements in a few simple taps. Introducing imito-Measure - part of the imito suite of applications.

Founded in Switzerland, imito AG produces a range of healthcare applications for healthcare that leverage the hardware in your smartphone (some of which you pay for).

The imito-Measure app however, is free and it's a revolution for wound care professionals!

To use the imito-Measure app all you need is the printable 'calibration markers' (also provided free). These help the app accurately compute the wound length, width, and surface area in just a few seconds.

"too good not to share"

Balter Healthcare doesn't own, license, or profit from the promotion and/or use of this application, we just think it's too good not to share. We're also using this app ourselves so if you have any questions we'd love to help you take a better look at how this technology might impact the way you measure wounds between dressings/

Images take from https://imito.io/en/imitomeasure