About
Healico is a dedicated wound care management app built for nurses, dermatologists, tissue viability nurses, and other healthcare professionals. By turning a standard smartphone into a wound measurement tool — using free calibration markers — Healico allows clinicians to capture, track, and assess wounds with precision using just a photo. The app centralises every aspect of wound care: initial assessments, treatment logs, progress photos, and team messages all appear in a unified patient feed, eliminating lost paperwork and misplaced photo libraries. Wound assessments can be completed step-by-step within the app and exported instantly as professional PDF reports. Healico supports real-time collaboration, letting care teams share patient files in one click, leave comments on feed posts, and access wound management recommendations and tips — reducing clinical isolation for district nurses or solo practitioners. The healing timeline is clearly visualised, giving both clinicians and patients confidence in the progress being made. All data is processed and stored with a certified health data hosting provider, ensuring full regulatory compliance. Only authorised members of the care team can access patient records. Healico is free to use and available now for download, making it accessible to individual practitioners and healthcare organisations alike.
Key Features
- Photo-Based Wound Measurement: Turn any smartphone into a wound measurement tool using free calibration markers, enabling instant, accurate wound sizing without specialist equipment.
- Unified Patient Feed: View a full timeline of photos, assessments, treatments, and team messages for each patient in one place — no more lost data or misplaced wound photos.
- Collaborative Care Team Tools: Share patient files with colleagues in one click, comment on feed posts, and collaborate in real time across the entire care team.
- PDF Wound Assessment Export: Complete structured wound assessments step-by-step and export them instantly as professional PDF reports for records or handovers.
- Certified Secure Data Hosting: All patient data is stored with a certified health data hosting provider, accessible only by the care team, ensuring compliance and patient privacy.
Use Cases
- District nurses documenting and tracking wound healing progress for homebound patients without carrying paper records.
- Tissue viability nurses collaborating with ward teams by sharing wound photos, assessments, and treatment notes in real time.
- Dermatologists conducting initial wound assessments and generating PDF reports for patient files or specialist referrals.
- Care home staff monitoring chronic wounds across multiple residents and coordinating with visiting clinicians through a shared patient feed.
- Healthcare teams demonstrating measurable wound healing progress to patients to improve their confidence and adherence to treatment plans.
Pros
- Completely Free to Use: Healico is free with no lab or product promotions embedded, making it genuinely accessible to individual practitioners without financial or commercial bias.
- Eliminates Paperwork: Replaces manual wound documentation and paper records with a streamlined digital workflow, saving clinicians significant time per patient visit.
- Real-Time Team Collaboration: Care teams can communicate, share updates, and coordinate patient management instantly within the app, reducing isolation for community-based nurses.
- Patient Progress Visualisation: Clinicians can show patients the visual healing journey of their wounds, improving engagement, trust, and treatment adherence.
Cons
- Mobile-Only Platform: Healico is exclusively a mobile app, which may limit use for clinicians who prefer desktop-based workflows or need to work from a fixed workstation.
- Requires Calibration Markers: Accurate wound measurement depends on physical calibration markers being present during photo capture, adding a consumable step to the process.
- Niche Use Case: The tool is purpose-built for wound care, meaning it offers little utility outside this specific clinical domain and cannot serve as a general patient management solution.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does Healico measure wounds?
Healico uses your smartphone camera along with free physical calibration markers placed next to the wound. The app uses the markers as a reference to calculate accurate wound dimensions from the photo.
Is Healico free to use?
Yes, Healico is free to download and use. It does not promote any laboratory or pharmaceutical products within the app.
Is patient data secure on Healico?
Yes. All patient data is stored with a certified health data hosting provider. Only the authorised care team members can access a patient's records, and data is retained for as long as clinically necessary.
Can I collaborate with my colleagues on Healico?
Absolutely. You can share patient files with colleagues in one click, leave comments on patient feed posts, and coordinate wound care in real time as a team.
Can I export wound assessments from Healico?
Yes. Healico allows you to complete a step-by-step wound assessment and export it as a PDF document, suitable for patient records, referrals, or handovers.
