Amy Cassata BSN, RN, WCC’s Post

We had a wonderful discussion about revolutionizing care at home today at #ViVE2024, which was a #NursesAtVive session. It was an honor to share the stage with Oriana Beaudet, DNP RN FAAN Kathy Driscoll MSN, RN, NEA-BC, CCM and Joel Macey Nurses possess an innate ability to solve-problems. We holistically assess patients, interprete orders, initiate care plans and manage complex cases while working in resource-constrained environments. As healthcare professionals, nurses are constantly on the lookout for opportunities to improve the delivery of healthcare services every day. My journey with digital wound care started as a nursing student 16 years ago. I used the smart phone to capture wound images and the experience sparked my interest in exploring the potential of technology in healthcare. Now I am fortunate to lead clinical innovation at Swift Medical, focusing on implementing new product features, demonstrating evidence-based outcomes, and building analytics tools to measure the impact of our product on patients, clinicians and organizations using our software. Recently, we published results that demonstrated how clinicians who adopted our software were able to provide more efficient and effective wound care that improved wound healing time by 36% for tens of thousands of patients, reduced facilities‘ pressure injuries prevalence by 13% year over year, reduced their regulatory fines, and created a 6x return on investment. What I’ve learned from working in digital health is the benefits do not come from simply changing clinical practice from paper to electronic form. It is about adopting solutions that enable us as clinicians to change our practice, our organization’s processes, and how we work within healthcare systems. Working with home health organizations that have adopted our technology, I see those changes. Nurses report better decision-making at the point of care because they have objective feedback driven by standardized AI-powered wound measurement. Wound images securely captured in their records, enable field staff to collaborate with their home office and clinical experts at their organization. It is easier to engage with providers who may need to change orders or make referrals, and those providers can do so because the wound information is readily available. These digital changes enable virtual and remote collaboration models. Clinicians working in patients’ home are no longer alone, they are digitally connected. This means we can shift the way care is delivered, improve health system collaboration and drive better outcomes. As we at Swift continue to scale up digital wound care in home health, we see the following outcomes. Using our access to big data, we see healing times are better than published median days to heal. These clinical benefits result in lower visit utilization, staff optimization while maintaining quality, and patients benefiting from fewer complications, such as reduced hospitalizations.