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Following years of Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholder (Alliance) advocacy to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) flagging concerns that the Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) coding process chilled innovation and created barriers to coverage and reimbursement for DMEPOS and other new technologies/products in the wound care space, the Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders is pleased to report that improvements to the process will be put in place in 2019. The Alliance is a founder and key member of the Alliance for HCPCS Coding Reform who has met regularly with CMS and HHS staff to articulate their concerns with the process.

by the Wound Healing Foundation

The Wound Healing Foundation, through the support of Medline Corius Tissue Regeneration, is delighted to announce a new 3-year grant series; WHF-Medline Research Grant Innovation Award. The first of three consecutive $30,000 grant awards for the best scientific and innovative proposal will be awarded May 2019.

by SteadMed Medical

Fort Worth, TX – October 1, 2018 — Urgo Medical North America (formerly SteadMed Medical), announced a new Federal Supply Schedule contract for its VASHE product line. The contract provides the Military Health System broad access to VASHE®, Vashe provides skin-friendly wound care with the highest concentration of pure hypochlorous acid* available on the market today. Vashe® Wound Solution is intended for cleansing, irrigating, moistening, debriding and removal of foreign material including microorganisms and debris from exudating and/or dirty wounds, acute and chronic dermal lesions, such as Stage I-IV pressure ulcers, stasis ulcers, diabetic ulcers, post-surgical wounds, first and second-degree burns, grafted and donor sites; and exit sites. Vashe® Wound Solution passes the USP<51> Antimicrobial Effectiveness Test, and demonstrates rapid effective activity in solution against a broad spectrum of gram-positive, gram-negative, and yeast species with the following in vitro time-kill results.

by Industry News

January 15, 2019 – The Association for the Advancement of Wound Care (AAWC) will host the 2019 Pressure Ulcer Summit (PrU Summit) on February 8 and 9, 2019 at the Westin Atlanta Airport Hotel. The Summit will be preceded by the workshop, “PrU Prevention Programs: Justify, Quantify, Strategize,” on February 7.

by Kara Couch, MS, CRNP, CWS, CWCN-AP

The Association for the Advancement of Wound Care (AAWC) is dedicated to providing forums that challenge the status quo, promote new ideas for practice and research, and, most importantly, share information that immediately enhances the care we provide to the patients who so desperately need our expertise. For wound care to advance as a specialty, our educational programs must not focus on novices and consist of redundant sanitized content; it requires open debate and critical evidence-based analysis. To achieve this, the AAWC is hosting a series of regional, single-topic meetings that are designed to bring high-level content at an affordable cost closer to our members who may not have the ability to attend a national meeting.

by the WoundSource Editors

Jacksonville Beach, FL – January 15, 2019 – Kestrel Health Information, Inc. announces the appointment of four new members of the Editorial Advisory Board for the upcoming 2019 edition of WoundSource: Janet Wolfson, PT, CLWT, CWS, CLT-LANA; Kara Couch, MS, CRNP, CWS, CWCN-AP; Michel Hermans, MD; and Samantha Kuplicki, MSN, APRN-CNS, AGNCS-BC, CWCN-AP, CWS, RNFA, CFCN; according to publisher Jeanne M. Cunningham.

by Industry News

New York, NY – November 8, 2018 – Optima Molliter has won the "CES 2019 Innovation Awards Honoree in Wearable Technologies" for the "SBi Motus Smart" project. The announcement paves the way to the Company's quest for the "CES Innovation Awards," that will be presented during the January event by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA).

by Industry News

San Antonio, TX – November 12, 2018 – KCI, an Acelity Company, announced today that recently published data stemming from two studies demonstrate that closed incision negative pressure therapy (ciNPT) with the PREVENA™ Incision Management System reduced post-surgical wound complication potential in patients recovering from oncological breast surgery and breast reconstruction, respectively.

by Industry News

WHF-3M Submission Deadline November 20, 2018

The Wound Healing Foundation, through the support of 3M Health Care, is pleased to announce the Wound Healing Foundation-3M Fellowship for the year 2019. This will mark the 20th anniversary of the 3M Fellow Award. The WHF-3M Fellowship is a one-year $15,000 gift to stimulate scientific research and career development of a young investigator or junior faculty member pursuing a career in wound healing research. The 2019 Fellowship recipient benefits by:

Industry News

The Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders' quarterly update on their ongoing advocacy initiatives to includes an overview of their comments on wound care policies, upcoming meeting dates and a list of recent publications.