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Smartphone app · wound care

WoundCare: your skin ulcer archive in your pocket

WoundCare is a phone app for the outpatient management of chronic skin ulcers. For each patient it records wounds, visits and photographs, measures the wound area from the photo, shows the healing trend over time and suggests guideline-based treatment adapted to the wound aetiology.

Data stay on the phone, protected by a code and by fingerprint unlock. The encrypted backup can be saved to a file or to your own Google Drive.

Open WoundCare ↗ How to install it

The app opens in a new tab, in English. It works best on a smartphone; the language can be changed at any time in its Settings.

WoundCare logo

What it does

Patient and wound archive

Demographics, risk factors, medications and allergies; for each patient one or more wounds with site, side and aetiology, and the series of visits.

Photos and measurements

A photograph of the wound at every visit and area calculation from the photo: set the scale and trace the outline. Length, width, depth, percentages of granulation, slough and necrosis, and exudate are recorded too.

Healing trend

Area chart, symptom table (pain, itching, bleeding, exudate, odour), side-by-side comparison of two photos, and an alert when the 4-week area reduction is below the expected threshold.

Diagnostic pathway

A guided pathway helps to work out the aetiology: venous, arterial, mixed, neuropathic or neuroischaemic diabetic foot, Martorell ulcer, malignant cutaneous wound.

Treatment suggestions

For every visit: first- and second-choice dressing, compression according to the ABI, general measures and red flags for referral to a vascular specialist, with a reference to the relevant guideline page.

Visit report

A report with customisable header, logo and signature, to print or share as a PDF.

Which guidelines it is based on

  • Vascular wounds (venous, arterial, mixed): Emilia-Romagna Region (Italy), Medicazioni avanzate [Advanced dressings], Annex 5 (2016).
  • Malignant cutaneous wounds: Emilia-Romagna Region, Annex 6 (2024).
  • Diabetic foot: IWGDF 2023 guidelines on wound healing, peripheral artery disease and offloading.
  • Diagnostic pathway: logic inspired by UlcerAPP (Rodríguez Padilla J et al., Angiología 2024, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), with rewritten text.

Treatment suggestions appear only once the aetiology has been chosen, and for malignant cutaneous wounds only after histological confirmation.

Data and security

  • Everything stays on the phone. There is no central server: nobody, not even the app's developer, can access the archive.
  • Encrypted archive protected by a code chosen by the user; it can be unlocked with a fingerprint. The app locks itself after 5 minutes of inactivity.
  • Backup to an encrypted file or to your own Google Drive: the «archivioVRWC» folder holds the encrypted archive and the photos, also encrypted and with random names that reveal neither patient, date nor wound. The app can see only this folder, not the rest of your Drive.
  • Forgotten code: the app generates a request code to send to the administrator, who returns the code without being able to read the data.
  • No data are sent to artificial intelligence services.

How to install it on your phone

WoundCare is a web app: no app store is needed. You install it from the browser and then open it from its icon like any other app, even offline.

  1. Android (Chrome): open WoundCare, tap the ⋮ menu at the top right and choose Install app or Add to Home screen.
  2. iPhone (Safari): open WoundCare, tap the Share button and choose Add to Home Screen.
  3. On first launch, create the archive code. Then, from Settings, you can turn on fingerprint unlock, connect Google Drive and switch between English and Italian.
Open WoundCare ↗

Disclaimer

WoundCare is a support tool for healthcare professionals. Its suggestions summarise the guidelines cited above; they do not replace clinical judgement and must always be checked against the original sources and local protocols. See also the site's legal notice.

Questions or feedback: [email protected].