Addressing Challenges and Bridging Care Gaps for Wound Patients
This expert-led video presentation explores systemic challenges and opportunities in wound care delivery—highlighting how gaps in communication, reimbursement, and continuity of care can delay healing outcomes for patients with chronic wounds.
Key Highlights:
- Care Coordination Barriers: The speaker identifies a lack of integration between hospitals, home health, and outpatient wound clinics, emphasizing how fragmented care increases complications and rehospitalizations.
- Access & Equity: Geographic, financial, and insurance-related disparities prevent many patients from receiving timely interventions, particularly advanced wound therapies and follow-up assessments.
- Reimbursement Misalignment: The video discusses how billing structures often disincentivize comprehensive wound assessments or multidisciplinary collaboration.
- Opportunities for Improvement: Recommendations include increasing awareness of wound-related quality measures, leveraging telehealth, training primary care teams in early detection, and expanding patient education initiatives.
This presentation provides a concise but impactful look at the structural reforms needed to improve wound healing outcomes and reduce the burden on patients, caregivers, and providers alike.
Keywords:
wound care gaps,
care coordination,
chronic wounds,
telehealth wound care,
health equity