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Patient Overcoming Care Fatigue

Overcoming Care Fatigue with CarePICS

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Ongoing medical appointments can wear down wound care, peripheral artery disease (PAD), and critical limb ischemia (CLI) patients over time. The result? Care fatigue.

Tests, measurements, stressful travel, paperwork, and the wait to be poked and prodded can be physically and mentally exhausting. Many patients may start skipping follow-up appointments because it simply feels easier.

CarePICS is the key to helping your patients overcome care fatigue. The virtual care platform provides a personalized care experience that lessens appointment anxiety for current wound care patients and helps reach new patients through a virtual clinician network.

Help Nurture Strong Patient Relationships

Ninety percent of patients would choose talking to their doctor via video chat over in-person visits, according to a study by the Journal of American Medical Informatics Association. Virtual and telehealth care were already preferable before the COVID-19 pandemic — now they’ve become a valuable component for patient retention.

CarePICS is a HIPAA-compliant clinical coordination tool that revolutionizes convenience and helps improve patient outcomes. Patients no longer feel worn down by the stresses of transportation and clinical settings. The option of in-home appointments saves money, avoids conflicts with everyday life and eliminates concerns about exposing an at-risk population to potential hazards.

CarePICS also simplifies a clinician’s ability to maintain ongoing relationships with patients. The healthcare technology platform:

  • Provides secure, direct communication with patients
  • Tracks wound-healing progress for quick feedback on wounds, pain and other issues
  • Enables direct ordering of wound care products to get patients their supplies sooner

How to Attract New Patients

Coordinating complex patient care between primary care physicians (PCP), specialists and care teams is made easier with the CarePICS mobile and web app. Podiatrists, vascular surgeons and skilled nurses can utilize text, image and video sharing for better outcomes. This enhanced, effective communication strengthens clinical partnerships and increases the likelihood of referrals.

Providing access to patients who are local, an hour away and even across the country is another benefit of the platform. CarePICS removes barriers and opens channels between patient and PCP and PCP and specialist. With the simple app, you can become a coordination hub for a high-tech patient care team.

For More Information

Keep patients satisfied and engaged by improving the outcomes and growing a professional network to support their healthcare journeys. Visit our website to learn more about the CarePICS virtual care platform.

About CarePICS

CarePICS® is a HIPAA-compliant telehealth platform designed to manage vascular disease and wound care patients. CarePICS enables virtual consults, telehealth visits, clinical image reporting, and automated medical supply ordering

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CarePICS Driven by a Passion for Wound Care Patient Advocacy

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You’ve heard about the transformative power of telehealth frequently in the last year. Indeed, telemedicine has helped medical practices continue providing excellent healthcare for patients during the pandemic.

Keeping ongoing connections with wound care and vascular patients is especially critical. Ensuring successful wound care is why CarePICS developed their virtual care platform that brings patients and provider teams closer together.

CarePICS has built a culture of collaboration around their remote clinical imagery system. Their mission is to:

Build a virtual community of providers that collaborate to improve clinical outcomes, remove barriers to care and make a lasting impact on the patients we serve

Their passion for wound care, and how they envision the future makes CarePICS stand apart!

Distance is Not Your Friend in Healthcare

CarePICS CEO Paul Schubert founded Medical Treatment Systems in 1981 to develop medical device markets, focusing on wound care and patient safety. Paul’s team gained vast wound care experience and knowledge, including seeing the impracticality of nurses traveling long distances to help wound care patients.

“Distance is not your friend in healthcare,” he explains. “So, I went to our Chief Strategy Officer Terry Williams, who has an extensive background in developing medical devices. We talked about the need for a technology that bridged the gap between doctors, patients and skilled nursing — and CarePICS was born.”  

“All of us at CarePICS believe we have a calling,” says Schubert. “Our team members have always worked to deliver medical devices to clinicians and enable better treatment possibilities for their patients. Our new virtual care platform is the culmination of that work.”

The CarePICS Difference

CarePICS differentiates itself by providing solutions that better connect patients and healthcare providers. Their innovative platform helps clinicians reach patients everywhere, streamline inefficiencies, reduce costs and improve patient satisfaction.

CarePICS is the only networking software that focuses on peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and chronic wounds.

“Simply put, we believe that by increasing collaboration between healthcare providers we can help keep more feet attached to more legs,” says Schubert. “Many of the patients helped by CarePICS would have needed amputations if they hadn’t been identified sooner. Every single CarePICS employee is proud of the difference they’ve made in patients’ lives. Every team member is a patient advocate.”

What’s Next for CarePICS?

It’s an exciting time for CarePICS. Minnesota-based Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. (CSI) recently invested in the platform. “Our partnership with CSI is the perfect opportunity to broaden our network of vascular and interventional specialists,” says Schubert.

Over the next two years, the CarePICS team is focused on setting up networks that concentrate on the lower limbs, and providing support to podiatrists and wound care clinics. The priority is creating channels that make the patient experience less expensive and less invasive, while lowering morbidity.

“We also want to facilitate getting patients to a vascular expert sooner,” says Schubert. “In some areas of the country over 40 percent of patients that have amputations have never had a vascular consult. This has only been exacerbated by COVID-19 quarantines. We believe our medical communities can lower that number using our enhanced specialized communication tools.”

For More Information

CarePICS provides an advantage for clinicians in the wound care space. We’ve developed our user-friendly, HIPAA-compliant mobile and web app from decades of experience and knowledge with a core value system built around advocating for wound care and vascular patients.

Visit our website to see our drive for evolving healthcare best practices and succeeding in our commitment to meeting the needs of healthcare providers and patients.

About CarePICS

CarePICS® is a HIPAA-compliant telehealth platform designed to manage vascular disease and wound care patients. CarePICS enables virtual consults, telehealth visits, clinical image reporting, and automated medical supply ordering.