{"id":222400,"date":"2025-09-24T07:16:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T12:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/smart-device-uses-ai-and-bioelectronics-to-speed-up-wound-healing-process"},"modified":"2025-09-24T07:16:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T12:16:34","slug":"smart-device-uses-ai-and-bioelectronics-to-speed-up-wound-healing-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/smart-device-uses-ai-and-bioelectronics-to-speed-up-wound-healing-process","title":{"rendered":"Smart device uses AI and bioelectronics to speed up wound healing process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/smart-device-uses-ai-and-bioelectronics-to-speed-up-wound-healing-process.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a wound heals, it goes through several stages: clotting to stop bleeding, immune system response, scabbing, and scarring. A wearable device called \u201ca-Heal,\u201d designed by engineers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, aims to optimize each stage of the process. The system uses a tiny camera and AI to detect the stage of healing and deliver a treatment in the form of medication or an electric field. The system responds to the unique healing process of the patient, offering personalized treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The portable, wireless device could make wound therapy more accessible to patients in remote areas or with limited mobility. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s44385-025-00038-6?\" target=\"_blank\">Initial preclinical results<\/a>, published in the journal <i>npj Biomedical Innovations<\/i>, show the device successfully speeds up the healing process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a wound heals, it goes through several stages: clotting to stop bleeding, immune system response, scabbing, and scarring. A wearable device called \u201ca-Heal,\u201d designed by engineers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, aims to optimize each stage of the process. The system uses a tiny camera and AI to detect the stage of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}