Open Wound Research

Notes, research, and updates from Open Wound Research.

Quantifying the rural mobile wound care need

mobile wound care

rural health

policy

market sizing

The question I kept getting after my IWSS (Independent Wound Specialist Society) presentation last week, in email and on LinkedIn, was a version of: how big is the…

PAR for clinical decision-making is different from PAR for statistical inference

PAR

DFU

clinical trials

statistics

At the TRSS Spring meeting in Austin a couple of weeks ago, I claimed that PAR (percent area reduction) was not being calculated correctly in diabetic foot ulcer RCTs.…

The Ontology Is the Freeway. The AI Apps Are the Cars.

AI

ontology

interoperability

WCODS

wound care

I was at SAWC Spring 2026 in Charlotte last week. The energy around AI in wound care was unmistakable. Session after session, conversation after conversation, the field is…

What the shape of Medicare spending can teach you about wound care costs

Medicare

wound care

claims

health economics

CMS

Suppose I told you the average Medicare payment for a DME claim is about $80. You might think that’s useful information. It isn’t. It’s the average of two completely…

What FY2025 CERT Data Reveals About CAMPS Products

CERT

CAMPS

skin substitutes

Medicare

compliance

wound care

CMS recently published the FY2025 Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) results, and the headline is encouraging: the national Medicare Fee-for-Service improper payment…

How many mobile wound care providers are there?

Mobile Wound Care

I was speaking to my co-founder of Open Wound Research, Ryan Dirks, and an interesting question came up between us. Just how many mobile wound care providers are there? By…

The Braden Scale as a Statistical Model

Braden Scale

Modeling

Bayesian

I just did a great podcast with Rob Fraser from SWIFT, and we began talking about Pressure Ulcer risk, the Braden Scale, and machine learning. It got me thinking about how…

Simulating Wound Data is Easier Than You Think

Data Science

Modeling

Simulation

As a modeler, I oftentimes simulate wound care data to test models prior to fitting those same models to real data. Why would one do this? With simulated data one know…

An Initial Rough Estimate of the Potential Cost to the CAMPS Industry of the new CMS LCDs

CAMPS

Medicare

Local Coverage Determination

All eight CMS Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) promulgated proposed concurrent Local Coverage Determinations (LCD’s) on April 25th for Skin Substitutes. In all but…

An Overview of Nonequivelent Group Study Designs in Wound Care

Study Design

Quasi-Experimental

Nonequivelent Group Designs

Much of wound-care research is not randomized control studies, but rather quasi-experimental studies. The most commonly used quasi-experimental design is the nonequivalent…