AI Wound Care Technology Coming to More Grey-Bruce Hospitals and Home Care
Brightshores Health System is expanding an AI wound assessment tool to three more hospitals and home care across Grey-Bruce, backed by co-funding from DIGITAL.
Brightshores Health System is expanding an AI-based digital wound assessment tool to more health-care sites across Grey and Bruce counties, backed by additional co-funding from DIGITAL.
The technology — the Skin and Wound tool from Swift Medical — will be implemented at the Hanover & District Hospital, South Bruce Grey Health Centre and CarePartners, which provides home and community care.
Brightshores has used the tool across its six hospital sites over the past two years, and its Office of Research and Innovation is now leading the regional scale-up.
A nurse practitioner clinical lead from Grey County Long-Term Care is supporting the work, and the Office of Research and Innovation is handling project management and evaluation.
According to Brightshores, the Swift platform uses AI to measure wound surface area, depth and tissue type, with the aim of standardizing assessments and helping clinicians predict how individual wounds will heal.
Brightshores says data it has collected shows the tool can encourage patients to follow treatment plans, and that keeping a patient’s wound history available to providers as they move between hospital and home care can support continuity of care.
As part of the rollout, the partners plan to develop a community of practice inviting other organizations to take part. The project will run until the end of February 2027.
“Access to specialty wound resources can be very limited throughout the region,” said Cara Singh, VP and Chief Nursing Executive at South Bruce Grey Health Centre. “We are looking forward to implementing a tool that will enhance the ability of our staff to assess wounds in a timely and standardized manner.”
Rebecca Brookham, Director of the Office of Research and Innovation at Brightshores, said the project will focus on standardized assessments, improved documentation and better communication between organizations as patients move between acute and home care.
CarePartners will use the technology in community clinics and during home visits. “The ability to receive a history of wound images and assessments over time as a patient moves from hospital to home care will enhance our nurses’ ability to have a fulsome understanding of the patient history,” said Deb Forbeck, Executive Director – Care Excellence at CarePartners.
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