A cell phone is an essential tool for many and a new app on one is helping patients heal faster at Russell Medical’s Wound Care Center.

The technology from Healogics is speeding up the recovery process through quick, accurate measurements and photographs of wounds straight to a patient’s chart. It will allow staff and medical director Dr. Regina Phillips to start planning what is next for a patient’s recovery before Phillips even steps into a room.

Wound Care Center

Cliff Williams / The Outlook The new technology is realatively simple. A locked cell phone is loaded with app from Healogics and is used to measure wounds on patients. The photographs and measurements are then directly put in the patient’s charts.

Cliff Williams is a staff writer for Tallapoosa Publishers.