A team from the University of Tasmania is developing an Australian-first wound management system that will capture data on wounds in a range of settings, allow full analysis of that data and potentially offer clinical decision support as part of an effort to tackle the huge cost and deleterious effects of chronic wounds on the community.

The team, led by UTAS School of Medicine, Division of Pharmacy senior research fellow Ivan Bindoff, has been awarded a project valued at around $1.5 million by the Wound Management Innovation Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) to develop a wound management database, which will include as a first step a mobile-enabled web app to encourage healthcare professionals to do more wound assessments and do them electronically.