Our new Wound Manager, scheduled for release January 2018, supports agencies with wound care best practice processes, including clinical documentation improvement with embedded QA elements. The new Wound Manager provides the ability to easily track and document wound care, and quality/performance improvement initiatives. The new OASIS/Non-OASIS assessment is required to use this new feature. [CoP 484.65(a)-(e)]
The following are some of the key features:
Ability to add multiple wounds
- Each wound assigned a number automatically
- Ability to attach photos directly to patient visit for pictorial tracking of wound
- At a glance view of wounds on anatomical figure to quickly scan wound locations
- References included for clinician education, including video training
- Wound orders present to ensure proper treatment documentation by each clinician
- Standardized documentation to correctly chart administration of care
- Standardized documentation for adding new wounds
- Wound care flow sheet tracks progression of an individual wound per episode
- Able to view clinical documentation of each individual wound in easy format from visit to visit
- Second page of flow sheet keeps track of all wound care orders for each wound
- Ability to see all wound care orders and treatment performed at a glance
- Wound score chart for visual view of wound progression- declining wound score indicates declining progression of the wound status
- Ability to quickly identify restaged pressure ulcers or surgical wounds that have opened
- Wound History is a view of all current wounds and closed stage 3,4 and unstageable pressure ulcers
- See all wounds at a glance to quickly scan wound scores and progression or deterioration of wounds
- Ability to reactivate closed stage 3,4 and unstageable pressure wounds
- Clinical Manager able to see wound status view from patient chart
