Cathy Thomas Hess

Find Cathy on Linked In: http://linkd.in/10NXJFX Cathy oversees clinical and professional services for Net Health. Cathy gained expertise in various acute care, long-term care, sub-acute care facilities, home-health agencies, and outpatient wound care department settings. With over 25 years of experience in Wound Care, she's been engaged to share her command of knowledge in the industry with manufacturers (including biotechnology firms), product suppliers, insurers, law firms, and governmental agencies. She is the author of The Clinical Wound Manager™ Manual Series, Clinical Guide to Skin and Wound Care - Seventh Edition (also translated into Italian and Portuguese). She is the creator of both the Wound Care Strategies (WCS) Documentation System and TPS EMR. Cathy serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for Advances in Skin and Wound Care, authoring the monthly "Practice Points" column, as well as the board of Today's Wound Clinic. She is an expert witness for the Office of the Inspector General, past Board Member and Marketing Chair for the Wound, Continence, and Ostomy Certification Board, has appeared in several educational videos, authored over 100 journal articles, and is a sought after national and international speaker. In 2002 she was cited as one of the Best 50 Women in Business by the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development. Specialties:Board Certified Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurse, EMR optimization through workflow synchronization analysis, expert witness, author, columnist, entrepreneur