With Updox, staff can access a fully integrated platform to review documents, reply to questions, send texts, or file items to the patient chart,” says Michael Morgan, CEO, Updox. “By replacing multiple solutions with a single platform, Updox saves healthcare businesses time and money.”

DUBLIN, Ohio (PRWEB)
September 24, 2019

Connecticut Orthopaedic Specialists, one of the largest and most respected orthopaedic groups in Connecticut, selected Updox, an all-in-one healthcare collaboration platform that combines patient engagement, provider communications and internal productivity, to simplify how staff coordinates care, processes digital documents and securely communicates with internal staff, referring physicians and patients.

Connecticut Orthopaedic sought a technology partner offering a suite of solutions that worked within a single platform in order to eliminate disjointed, one-off solutions. Staff will use the Updox Collaboration Platform, that includes solutions such as secure text, document management, broadcast communication, reminders and inter-office messaging, to help them enhance the patient experience and be more responsive to patient and provider needs.

Through Updox, Connecticut Orthopaedic can keep their patient engagement, communications, documentation and paperwork in one central collaboration platform, and making it easy for staff in any office to share or review information internally and connect with referring physicians, patients, and staff at multiple locations. Updox allows them to submit documentation, review communications or exchange messages with staff in real time using Updox Messenger and access those tools from a cell phone or other mobile device, to increase their responsiveness to patient and provider needs.

“Large, multi-location organizations like Connecticut Orthopaedic Specialists have unique needs for real-time communications, office efficiency and secure care coordination. With Updox, staff can access a single inbox – from any location or mobile device – to easily review documents, reply to questions, send texts, distribute messages or file items to the patient chart, through a fully integrated platform,” says Michael Morgan, CEO, Updox. “By eliminating manual processes and replacing multiple solutions with a single platform, Updox saves healthcare businesses time and money. That makes care more effective, staff more productive and patients happier and better informed.”

Updox helps streamline Connecticut Orthopaedics’ business processes and support a better patient experience. Benefits like bringing appointment reminders to the clinical team to help patients be more prepared ahead of procedures; easily communicating with entire patient base or targeted groups (for news such as weather-related cancellations, practice events, birthday wishes, etc.); secure two-way text messaging with patients to get faster answers to post-op questions; managing the process for bundled payments and supporting ad hoc HIPAA-compliant texting with physicians allow the practice to be more responsive and help patients feel better informed throughout their care.

“We were impressed with how Updox is continually evolving their product to enable healthcare professionals to adopt and efficiently use new technology to improve patient communication and care,” said Mark Filiault, chief information officer, Connecticut Orthopaedic Specialists. “Updox brings that all together into one common hub that supports the way we work. Secure texting is so appealing to our patients and much more efficient for staff as well.”

About Updox:

Committed to simplifying the business of healthcare, Updox is a single collaboration platform for out-of-hospital healthcare providers. Named for the past five years to the Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies, Updox is integrated with more than 100 electronic health records (EHR) and pharmacy management systems and serves more than 350,000 users and 125 million patients.

Updox offers a broad set of capabilities for patient engagement, provider communications and internal productivity that work together in a secure, easy-to-use collaboration platform. Updox was created specifically for the out-of-hospital market and gives customers access to a growing platform that focuses on solutions and services to make everyone delivering healthcare happy. Learn more at http://www.updox.com or follow the company on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

About Connecticut Orthopaedic Specialists:

Connecticut Orthopaedic Specialists, PC offers all orthopaedic subspecialties including sports medicine, treatment for problems of the upper and lower extremities, joint replacement surgery, pediatric orthopaedics, spine and back care and both surgical and non-surgical podiatry. COS is the largest privately held orthopaedic group in Connecticut and has been providing quality, individualized care to patients for over 55 years. COS has 60 physicians, 22 locations including in-house physical therapy, four COS NOW orthopaedic walk-in centers, three MRI centers providing in-house diagnostic testing and its own surgical center.

MEDIA CONTACT:

Cortney Johnston

ARPR on behalf of Updox

855-300-8209

cortney@arpr.com

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Jie Chen, RPA-C

Scars can be barriers to optimal health, bringing distress and discomfort. Especially if the scar is large or prominent or inhibits movement.

EAST SETAUKET and WEST ISLIP, NY (PRWEB)
September 24, 2019

In the annals of human development, the body’s ability to form scars was an evolutionary breakthrough – its means of surviving life-threatening skin wounds. “But in the modern world,” observes Jie Chen, a certified registered physician’s assistant specializing in dermatology with Advanced Dermatology PC, “scars can be barriers to optimal health, bringing distress and discomfort. Especially if the scar is large or prominent or inhibits movement.”

The process may appear simple: Following a serious wound – due to accident, surgery, acne, or disease – our skin goes through a healing process that gradually reveals a new surface: sometimes raised, sometimes pitted, often redder than the surrounding area. “Scars are patches that our body creates as quickly as possible for protection,” notes Chen. “But our system’s focus on a fast fix means that the rebuild lacks our skin’s original structures and appearance. The result can be distressing. And large scars – especially in the case of burns – can interfere with movement, in particular if the scarred area affects joints.”

On its surface, scar formation may seem straightforward, but researchers today are uncovering complex processes that cooperate to allow our skin to repair itself. “The body orchestrates a cascade of interrelated cellular responders that coordinate to avoid infection and rebuild,” explains Chen. “Recent research is giving us a more nuanced understanding of the processes in play – which offers exciting possibilities for treating scars.”    

With that in mind, Chen makes the following suggestions:

5 Tips on Scar Breakthroughs

1. Wound “tension” plays an even bigger role: “We’ve known that relaxing tension across a wound is essential to minimizing scarring,” says Chen. “But we’re getting a better understanding of just how significant tension-reducing dressings and surgical techniques can be. New research shows that tension triggers biochemical responses that cause additional scar tissue to form. New ways of dressing wounds – like the embrace device which continuously reduces strain on the tissue – and specialized surgical techniques for scar removal can encourage healthy skin renewal and lessen scar formation.”

2. For laser repair, get on the right wavelength: “Lasers offer a dual means of minimizing scars,” explains Chen. “They can redesign the scar’s ‘fast fix’ by re-organizing collagen to improve the surface. They also can reduce the inflammation and blood vessels that give some scars a red appearance. We know that using the correct wavelength – whether via a CO2 laser, Nd-YAG, or Fraxel – is key to the desired outcome, whether it’s evening the surface or the pigment.”

3. New treatments can help our skin help itself: “For large scars, especially due to burns, we’re seeing breakthroughs that can reduce extensive skin grafts,” states Chen. “Skin cell research has resulted in treatments such as the recently FDA-approved ‘ReCell,’ where doctors take a small section of the patient’s healthy skin and break it down into its component cells: fibroblasts, keratinocytes, melanocytes. Those cells are then used to formulate a spray-on skin treatment that can repopulate a much, much larger surface area.”

4. Re-tuning the body’s responses may build new skin:

“Today’s research offers a entryway to healthy skin regeneration,” observes Chen. “We have an understanding of the cellular processes involved in the body’s response to wounds: some cellular responses trigger scarring; others increase healthy skin renewal, with normal structures such as hair follicles and glands. If we can ‘turn off’ the scarring stimuli and ‘turn on’ regeneration processes, we can take a major step forward in scarless healing. We offer patients advanced Microneedling Treatments including the collagen pin and Intensif, which with these techniques help tremendously with scars and anti-aging.”

5. Specialized superhealers come to the rescue: In certain cases,” notes Chen, “serious wounds heal with no scars: Fetal surgeries show scarless healing. Likewise wounds inside our mouths. Certain animals also offer models: the covering on a reindeer’s antlers – remarkably similar to human skin – can rebuild itself. Identifying the unique cellular characteristics involved in these examples provides clues to promoting new skin rather than scarring.”

“The research happening now,” concludes Chen, “offers the possibility of building on evolution’s solution to skin damage, replacing scarring with actual renewal.”

Bio: Jie Chen, RPA-C is a Certified Physician Assistant through the National Commission of Certification of Physician Assistants.

Advanced Dermatology P.C. and the Center for Laser and Cosmetic Surgery (New York & New Jersey) is one of the leading dermatology centers in the nation, offering highly experienced physicians in the fields of cosmetic and laser dermatology as well as plastic surgery and state-of-the-art medical technologies. http://www.advanceddermatologypc.com.

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