“When I was in medical school in Toronto in 2013, I noticed doctors and nurses relied on rulers to measure patients’ wounds,” she says, “resulting in widely varied descriptions, depending on who was doing the measuring. It didn’t seem very exact, so I decided to do something about it.”
Monitoring a wound is critical, especially in diabetic patients, whose lack of sensation due to nerve damage can lead to infection of a lesion and, ultimately, amputation.
McGill Newsroom
True to her word, Dr. Wang co-founded Swift Medical, which developed the smartphone app, Swift Skin and Wound™. The app allows medical workers to remotely collect images and data from each patient, and to follow the wound over time.
Swift Skin and Wound is now used to monitor over 100,000 patients in over 1,000 healthcare facilities across Canada and the USA.
Source: McGill Newsroom
Swift Medical: Swift Skin and Wound™
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