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The ARANZ Medical Silhouette Suite allows medical specialists and institutions to more accurately and efficiently image, measure, and document wounds. Why measure wounds?Wound measurement and assessment is important for several reasons including:
In discussions with nurses and doctors involved in wound care who were interested in using our existing FastSCAN technology (www.fastscan3d.com), it became clear to ARANZ Medical that a technology based solution could be developed that could be more accurate, more efficient, and more integrated with electronic medical records than the current state of the art systems. Since late 2004 ARANZ Medical has developed the Silhouette system to meet that need. |
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What is Silhouette?
The ARANZ Medical Silhouette product suite is a computerized wound imaging, analysis and documentation system designed for wound care professionals.
Through the intelligent use of technology this solution captures images of the patient using a custom-designed camera, allows accurate quantitative information to be derived from those images, and builds that information into an electronic patient record for printing, electronic distribution, and archiving. Information about the wound’s measurement history is available so the serial progression of the wound status is also calculated and presented. This information is stored to a robust database and can be shared with other hospital information systems using international protocols for medical data interchange.
Using wireless technology patient information that is gathered at remote sites, for example by a nurse in the field, can be immediately transmitted to a central repository or to a specialist for consultation. This information can include images, quantitative measurements and other wound assessment information gathered at the time of patient visit. Such transfer allows rapid and informed patient management decisions to be made.
The Silhouette initiative has received financial support from New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) and the New Zealand Foundation for Research Science and Technology (FRST).
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