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Wireless application for complex wound management.

Laura Case·Ray Simkus
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This project was to develop a web based wireless system to be used by community care nurses. Wound care constitutes approximately one half of home health care nursing visits. The system was implemented with a digital camera and a handheld computer with a wireless connection to a web based server. A database was used to control access to the clinical cases and to serve as a data repository. When new images were uploaded to the server a wound expert was notified via pager. The images and data could be viewed from any computer with an internet connection.

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Laura Case, Ray Simkus. 2003. Wireless application for complex wound management.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14728310/

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