Brightshores Health System is looking to implement a regional tool that uses AI for wound assessment.
The health system made the announcement after receiving co-funding from DIGITAL.
After successfully rolling out the Skin and Would Tool from Swift Medical across six Brightshores hospital sites in the region, the Brightshores Office of Research and Innovation (ORI) wants to help add the technology to Hanover & District Hospital, as well as the South Bruce Grey Health Centre and Care Partners.
The Swift platform incorporates AI to determine wound surface area, depth and tissue type to aid clinician ability to predict individual healing trajectories to standardize wound assessments.
In a media release, Brightshores President and CEO Ann Ford said “This technology has been a welcome tool, providing front-line staff with extremely accurate wound care assessments. This tool also improves patient education by acting as a visual resource and reducing the burden on our limited nurse would specialists.”
The organization said that the collaborative project had recently received co-funding from DIGITAL.
According to DIGITAL’s website, the company is “a company that connects technology builders and buyers to accelerate the adoption and commercialization of Canadian technology solutions.”
The data collected by Brightshores shows that the tool can encourage patients to follow treatment plans, and when transitioning from hospital to home and community health care, there is also a wound history available for the patient to help with continuity of care.