VA-Made ‘Smart Bandage’ Can Track Chronic Wounds—and Treat Them – By Brandi Vincent (Nextgov) / Sept 18 2020
The innovation also sparked a new startup to bring the technology to market.
A team of researchers led by a Veterans Affairs Department biomedical engineer produced a high-tech “smart bandage” that uses electrical stimulation to treat chronic wounds and can provide information about how they are healing.
The bandage, now named “Exciflex,” is equipped with a chip, sensors and more, incorporating electrotherapeutic technology developed by Dr. Kath Bogie and her research colleagues in Cleveland at the VA Advanced Platform Technology Center and Case Western Reserve University.
With help from the VA Technology Transfer Program, VA’s Bogie connected with entrepreneurs who formed a new startup company—Exci Inc.—to bring the tech-boosted bandage to market.
“In all my research I am motivated by improving healthcare for veterans, particularly those who experience chronic wounds,” Bogie told Nextgov during an email conversation Thursday. “It is very exciting to see this technology coming to fruition.”
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